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Netflix deal, looking like it may be over for H&M

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Thedom · 20/08/2024 20:06

The rumours have been doing the rounds for a while, but Puck News now reporting it, which means it is very likely that their contract with Netflix will not be renewed.

"The streamer is not expected to renew its five-year, $100 million deal signed in 2020 with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Meghan’s passion project, the animated kids show Pearl, has already been canceled, and the unscripted cooking and polo offerings didn’t connect the way the royal couple’s Harry & Meghan did. "

puck.news/the-best-and-worst-deals-of-peak-tv-part-1/

Netflix deal,  looking like it may be over for H&M
Netflix deal,  looking like it may be over for H&M
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GorgeousTulips · 01/09/2024 12:10

I see they have had another aide leave last month too.

BunnyLake · 01/09/2024 12:11

Rhaidimiddim · 01/09/2024 11:46

But why the DM? Why not one of the UK papers that are more pro-Sussex? IS this their new PR guy mending bridges with the DM?

No idea. Maybe they (H&M) just pay to put this stuff out there. Maybe the friends are real, I’m just surprised he has any left. It seems none of them liked his wife and she didn’t like them.

BunnyLake · 01/09/2024 12:14

Toastbuttermarmaladetea · 01/09/2024 11:40

Oh he has friends. Like Briony Gordon. Tessa Dunlop. Any of the other media shills for the Sussexes. That type of friend.

That Tessa Dunlop is awful. What a shouty ranty lady she is. I have to switch off if she’s on.

Staunchlystarling · 01/09/2024 12:15

BunnyLake · 01/09/2024 12:11

No idea. Maybe they (H&M) just pay to put this stuff out there. Maybe the friends are real, I’m just surprised he has any left. It seems none of them liked his wife and she didn’t like them.

It said old friends in a conciliatory manner, so not an ongoing good friendship, the dude he wants to help him, was asked publicly and said he had no comment to make on it or similar. He is just reaching out to those who could help him trying to use them.

Toastbuttermarmaladetea · 01/09/2024 12:34

BunnyLake · 01/09/2024 12:14

That Tessa Dunlop is awful. What a shouty ranty lady she is. I have to switch off if she’s on.

I know, she's supposed to be an expert psychologist, but takes money to be abused by Piers Morgan. Interestingly, though, she was absolutely adamant (not to mention triumphant) in one interview that Harry's Africa documentary for Netflix was going ahead - and she knew this because her friend was in Africa filming for it. The was shortly before the African Parks scandal broke....

FloofPaws · 01/09/2024 12:37

GorgeousTulips · 01/09/2024 12:10

I see they have had another aide leave last month too.

Who was this one?

Vabenejulio · 01/09/2024 13:23

After the level and type of disrespect and superiority both Harry and Meghan showed for the work of the BRF and most members of it, I cannot see how Harry can be a working royal again any time soon. He can’t be trusted.

After Meghan has deliberately chosen to give a quote to the NY Times this week that she knows she can make money out of wearing an earring or a bag, and with ARO still being shaped, there’s no way the BRF will have her in any photos with any of them (except for a funeral). After she’s said twice, in separate interviews, that she didn’t sign an NDA and has a lot to say, there’s no way the BRF will have her in their private space or near their children. She has made it extremely clear she wants nothing to do with the U.K. or her in laws, and given her need for control and to be top dog, I well believe it and well believe that would suit the BRF very well.

None of these articles say anything about Meghan. They’re all about Harry.

Meghan was recently on record saying the only way she would ever come back to the U.K. is if she didn’t have to live with her in laws, and if she had adequate security. Harry has been seeking the same level of security as William has, and is on record as saying he won’t bring his wife and children home until it’s safe. Given how clear it is that he’s not going to get what he has been suing for, it’s not a leap to think Meghan’s set down conditions she knows won’t be met - so she won’t come back. She doesn’t want to. Why should she? Theres nothing in it for her. She loves the air and peace and blah blah in California. She’s looking forward and wishes Harry would drop the litigation and do the same (she has form for ghosting and moving on, it wouldn’t be the first time). She has ideas and ventures and a house in Montecito that she chose etc etc. She’s not interested in being the spouse of 5th in line with massively negative headwinds in dismal and tiny UK: she’s aiming to be better than a princess in California if she can’t be an actual princess anywhere else, and this is the life she’s building for herself. She’s already reached heights she never dreamed were possible when first she asked to be set up on a blind date with Ashley Cole.

Edward was in the wilderness for years while he grew up, matured, had small kids, settled into adulthood.

I think Harry will be left there (in the wilderness) too. He wants his family and friends back. He knows he won’t get anything more. He’ll buy himself a small property somewhere and come and go as Invictus needs him, his charity work needs him, to see family and friends. Meghan has already extracted everything she can from the rf, nothing more will be forthcoming. She’s moving on. We won’t see her unless Harry allows her to jeopardise his reintegration by being snapped at parties and events in the U.K. wearing earrings and handbags she’s shilling for royalties and cuts.

Harry and Meghan are pulling in different directions at this point. In order for her to achieve what she wants, he has to give up what he needs.

The Mail is just flexing, with AN Wilson trying to speak for the nation’s best interests (ie that Harry will detract from William’s success if he’s not brought back in).

CarmelaBrunella · 01/09/2024 15:52

I think it's just a whole lot of leaking from the Sussexes.

SmileyHappyPeopleInTheSun · 01/09/2024 15:59

CarmelaBrunella · 01/09/2024 15:52

I think it's just a whole lot of leaking from the Sussexes.

Yep - think there's been a fair bit more lately no idea why.

FloofPaws · 01/09/2024 16:14

CarmelaBrunella · 01/09/2024 15:52

I think it's just a whole lot of leaking from the Sussexes.

Absolutely! The only positive press they get, they themselves release - the rest say it how it is - grifting, fake and rude

Uricon2 · 01/09/2024 16:14

I think if Meghan had been realistic about the fact that Diana level adulation is a) incredibly rare and b) actually needs a bit of time and substance to achieve even a modicum of, it would have been a start. I don't remember Kate being all that amazingly popular from the start, but she knuckled down and it paid off. They were presented with the world on a plate and didn't realise how important the Commonwealth role, National theatre patronship, day out with the Queen etc really were.

The hash they've made of things since leaving makes me think that both of them are fundamentally unsuited to the roles they appear to crave, which currently is a queasy mix of World Saviours and Jeff Bezos, IMO.

ETA, I am inclined to think something is going on but I don't think we'll know what for a while.

Toastbuttermarmaladetea · 01/09/2024 16:25

CarmelaBrunella · 01/09/2024 15:52

I think it's just a whole lot of leaking from the Sussexes.

Sounds like a decomposing corpse.

CarmelaBrunella · 01/09/2024 16:28

@Uricon2 it's incredible that Meghan came into an institution like the monarchy and believed she could change things, improve things, and be the star. Extraordinary.

SonicTheHodgeheg · 01/09/2024 17:46

It is fucked up that they are leaking to a publication that they previously sued but the pair love attention and there’s no UK tabloid bigger than the DM. I think that using the DM means guaranteed attention to this story in the US too. For all their moaning, they can’t live without tabloids and tabloids would struggle to attract clicks without them too.

Harry needs to act before his brother becomes King and his exile becomes permanent. I wonder if securing a property is on the agenda so that he can come and go quietly ?

Toastbuttermarmaladetea · 01/09/2024 17:52

Plausible deniability. Use publications you claim to revile to try to manifest your wishes. If it goes your way, all well and good. If it doesn't, you can claim it was just nasty tabloid gossip from the usual suspects and nothing to do with you.

Toastbuttermarmaladetea · 01/09/2024 18:05

That's interesting. Just before Christmas last year, the Times put up an article saying Head of Communications Ashley Hansen - who took over her job from Tanya Holness, who in turn took over her job from Christine Schirmer - had left the job. The article was taken down very quickly after publication on the website but archived nevertheless. And Hansen is still there, of course. I wonder if the Times got it wrong and it was actually Schirmer, not Hansen, who had left.

Thedom · 01/09/2024 18:30

Toastbuttermarmaladetea · 01/09/2024 18:05

That's interesting. Just before Christmas last year, the Times put up an article saying Head of Communications Ashley Hansen - who took over her job from Tanya Holness, who in turn took over her job from Christine Schirmer - had left the job. The article was taken down very quickly after publication on the website but archived nevertheless. And Hansen is still there, of course. I wonder if the Times got it wrong and it was actually Schirmer, not Hansen, who had left.

or they begged her to stay with agreed adjustments.

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Toastbuttermarmaladetea · 01/09/2024 18:43

Yes, perhaps Ashley did resign and Christina too at the same time, and they persuaded Ashley to stay and managed to quash the resignation news for Christina. Or Christina was the one who failed to keep the Ashley news out of the Times before they got a chance to negotiate her staying, and was given the push?? The tangled Archewell web!

WinnieTheW0rm · 01/09/2024 18:52

Staunchlystarling · 01/09/2024 11:49

No there is friends, the poster hasn’t read the article for some reason so was posting without knowing friends were listed, it’s the friends who told the dm, harry has declined to comment.

basically he’s been reaching out in a conciliatory manner to old friends via what’s app to see if they can help him get back in with the royals.

The article doesn't quite say that. Well it does towards the top, but in more detail further down

"Curiously, many of those yet to receive an olive branch are among his oldest companions, including fellow Etonians. Of those favoured, a number were friends acquired in more recent times"

Treesinmygarden · 01/09/2024 19:46

Chrsytalchondalier · 01/09/2024 07:22

You have a super selective memory, he was always making racist comments. Have you been living under a rock Hmm

Bollocks.

Treesinmygarden · 01/09/2024 20:02

Do you think he's still in the UK?

Serenster · 01/09/2024 20:39

Toastbuttermarmaladetea · 01/09/2024 18:05

That's interesting. Just before Christmas last year, the Times put up an article saying Head of Communications Ashley Hansen - who took over her job from Tanya Holness, who in turn took over her job from Christine Schirmer - had left the job. The article was taken down very quickly after publication on the website but archived nevertheless. And Hansen is still there, of course. I wonder if the Times got it wrong and it was actually Schirmer, not Hansen, who had left.

Is Ashley Hansen still at Archewell? The Times article that was taken down was pretty clear that she had left, and resigned without a job go to, because she was looking for freelance work after her stint at Archewell not having worked out.

I assumed the article was taken down because some of its content seemed to stray into matters that would likely be covered by confidentiality clauses. The sources said that the clients didn’t always listen to her advice. It also said that she’d worked on rebuilding the Sussexes relationship with UK tabloids following Meghan and Harry’s announcement that they would never work with them, and mentioned she had WhatsApp groups including tabloid jounalists to brief them behind the scenes about the German Invictus appearances.

If any of that was true I can see the Times being told by Archewell’s lawyers to take the article down because it contained confidential information in breach of Hansen’s agreements with Archewell.

CarmelaBrunella · 01/09/2024 20:45

Interesting, @Serenster . So proof that H&M are briefing the tabloids, especially the Daily Mail.

IAmATorturedPoet · 01/09/2024 20:54

The original article is out there should anyone want to refresh their memory 😊

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