Netflix -bosses do not consider Meghan Markle's new show a 'runaway success', because TV viewing figures revealed that subscribers prefer her on the screen when it is with her husband Prince Harry, MailOnline can reveal today.
With love, Meghan hardly brought in a quarter of the viewers who was addicted to the documentary series Harry & Meghan in 2022.
It came when Netflix's own data demonstrated that Meghan was with love more successful in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia than in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
“It's not a run -away success,” the insider of MailOnline at Netflix admitted.
The Duchess of the eight -part series of Sussex was viewed by 526,000 households in the first five days that it was available on Netflix since the release on 4 March, according to data collected by Samba TV.
But in comparison, Harry & Meghan went into 2.1 million households in about the same number of days – making it four times more successful.
Meghan was watched with love by more people between 45 and 54 than any other age group.
In the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, the TV program of Meghan number 7 in the Netflix card is according to the latest figures from the streaming giant.
The bosses of Netflix would be worried about the bad reviews of her series
Harry & Meghan was much more popular in terms of viewing figures compared to Love, Meghan
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But in the US, the UK and Canada, the show was number 10 yesterday.
In most other countries it would have stopped completely from the top ten, if it had been there at all.
On Friday the Duchess showed itself, with her arms in the air in her garden, because she said the show had been renewed for a second season. She admitted that she had made 'mistakes', but insisted that she is 'learning every day', after her fierce expectant Netflix The show was widely panded.
But a Netflix insider with links to the commercial arm of the streaming giant told MailOnline that the reviews have 'worry'. Meghan's own father Thomas also gave a wilting review yesterday and was upset by her dumping of the Markle last name for Sussex.
And a new season does not mean that her Netflix contract has been renewed, says the source of MailOnline.
'I know they have filmed the shows back-to-back, so in theory there is no second season, it is like with many Netflix shows, it is already in the bag at the same time with the first.
'What this does is that operations are made to make the show of feedback from press and Netflix -viewers. It is smart and cost effective. So no, the general contract has not yet been renewed. '
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The source added that bosses 'worried' about the bad reviews – especially because they are a business partner in her lifestyle brand, which will launch in their bricks and mortar shops in the coming months.
“The industry Bibles such as the Hollywood Reporter and Variety are not enthusiastic,” they said.
'Netflix bosses are all worried now because they have invested a lot in the product line. They don't know when and how they all roll it out '.
MailOnline asked Netflix to comment.
Netflix said that it will set space aside in two of their brand new stores.
The first of the AS Ever stands will be opened in two of the largest shopping centers in America, the king of Prussia Mall in Philadelphia and the gigantic Dallas Galleria.
But although details of products such as jam and pancake mix have emerged, the entire series and price points are not.
A Netflix source told the sun that they were happy with the level of coverage and interest in the show. The delayed lifestyle series, however, was closed by critics as a 'gormless lifestyle -filler' with a 'tangible despair', and normally supporting publications also went on Meghan and her show.
With love, Meghan has a humble 11 percent of viewers, runs behind struggling and sitcoms and is now outside the Netflix -Top ten in all major countries.
Variety has tired the Duchess of the Sussex series as 'A Montecito Ego Trip is not worth the effort' in a No Holds Barred Review.
“The show is set as a forced march, one in which the guests of Meghan, as the price of an afternoon have to share in a cuisine with her, first praise her,” they wrote.
“With love, Meghan has been made with a lot of love – in the sense that the greatest love of everything is the one who has a person for himself.”
With love, Meghan has a low 11 percent of viewers with the behind struggle and sitcoms on the map of Netflix
Meghan with Prince Harry who makes a fleeting appearance in the lifestyle series of his wife
The series has a low 11 percent rating of more than 250 reviews of viewers on reviews Site Rotten Tomatoes
The series has a low 11 percent rating of more than 250 reviews on entertainment website Rotten Tomatoes.
A destructive a star recisent joked: 'This is not even a nice hate watch. It's just bad. '
A colleague Lage Scorer said that watching with love was the 'worst few minutes of my life'.
Previously sympathetic left -wing publications such as The Guardian have warned that this could be the last show that Meghan and her husband Prince Harry ever earn for Netflix if it is not a success – describing 'useless'.
Marina Hyde in The Guardian wrote: 'The mildest way to describe this show is as a horrible artifact of a certain cultural era that recently met his apocalyps. This show is sensational absurd and trite, and if you look at it, you know. '
