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The media company in AR Productions, founded by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, signed the media company a new contract with Netflix and announced its first new project after the rumors had brought Netflix reduced relationships with the couple.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, can be seen on April 23, 2025 in New York City.
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Netflix announced on Monday that it renewed his creative partnership with Harry and Meghan (according to reports that the relationship ended) with a multi-year, first look deal that gives the streamer the right to the first rejection for all Arzenwell film and television projects
The New Deal is structured differently than the five-year contract of $ 100 million in 2020, in which Netflix Hony and Meghan paid for the exclusive rights to all content in architecture.
As part of the new agreement, the New York Times It is not worth less, Netflix has the first option to stream Arzenwell content.
The New Deal has less commitment from Netflix and reflects the withdrawal of the streamer from all-encompassing agreements (a deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company of higher properties, which transferred the initial exclusivity agreement with Archewell last year to a first look deal).
As always, Netflix also invested in the lifestyle brand Markle, which was introduced last year with the streamer, which sells products such as jam, wine and backmixes, produced some of the products through its consumer goods product group and, according to the Times, shared sales.
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What comes from Harry and Meghan's new Netflix deal?
In addition to a second season of “With Love, Meghan”, which was already carried out this month, Netflix announced that it will produce a special holiday episode in the couple's California house entitled “With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. The deal also includes a film adaptation of the bestseller novel “Meet Me at the Lake” and a documentary about an orphanage in Uganda, which is known for its viral videos, called “Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Inric”. The Achewell Productions is also in “active development” for additional projects with Netflix and will expand into new product categories in the course of this year, said the streamer.
What have Harry and Meghan already doing at Netflix?
When his first deal was announced, Archewell and Netflix said that they would make “inspiring family programs” such as documentaries, docuseries, feature films, scripting shows and children's television, but in the past five years only five projects and none were children's television, feature films or scripts. The explosive Docuseries 2022 “Harry & Meghan” was far most successful from the deal and keeps the record for most of the time for a Netflix documentary in his debut week. It still arouses interest and was observed in the first half of 2025 another 7.3 million hours. The deal also produced “Heart of Invictus”, a documentary that took part in the sports event founded by athletes who took part in the sporting event founded by Prince Harry. “Live to Lead”, a Docuseries about effective world leaders, “Polo” about professional sport; And the lifestyle series “With Love, Meghan”. Spent “with love” one week On the Global Top 10 list from Netflix in 10th place with 12.6 million hours in the first week.
What is as always?
Markle started a brand called American Riviera Orchard via Instagram on March 14, 2024 with a short video in which the Duchess arranged flowers, baked and stood on a stone path with a floor -length dress. The company's registration documents have created, created, created, created tableware, cutlery, cookbooks, inpatient, party decorations and other similar articles, but still have ever been sold under the name of products. A brand application for the brand was rejected and there were several reports in which no CEO had run the business. In February she was a partnership with Netflix and around the company to be called. “As always. ““ A handful of products were published, including two jams, three teas and honey, which were almost immediately sold out.