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🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | So it looks like things aren't going so well for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry as basically |
0:04.7 | the entire world knows by this point. |
0:07.2 | The pair very famously, very publicly left royal life to move to America, and I think |
0:12.3 | the plan there was to have the best of both worlds, to have all of the prestige and adoration |
0:17.1 | that comes with being a royal, but all of the lucrative media deals that come with being |
0:22.3 | someone from Hollywood. |
0:23.8 | And you know what? |
0:24.8 | Initially, after they left the royal family, it looked like they might be able to accomplish |
0:28.1 | that. |
0:29.1 | They secured some very, very big deals with Netflix and Spotify. |
0:33.0 | But since then, the Netflix deal hasn't really worked out that well. |
0:37.1 | As the BBC reported last year, Netflix canceled the Meghan Markle animated series Pearl. |
0:42.0 | It's explained that art world productions, the company formed by the Duke and Duchess |
0:45.7 | of Sussex, announced last year that Meghan would be an executive producer of Pearl, and |
0:50.5 | the series was planned to center on the adventures of a 12-year-old girl who is inspired by influential |
0:55.4 | women from history. |
0:56.4 | Well, that show no longer happening, which I don't think is a surprise, because it's |
1:00.4 | like, who on Earth would be the target demographic for that feminist activist ten-year-olds? |
1:08.6 | Maybe? |
1:09.6 | Not only that, but the series that Meghan and Harry did manage to release with Netflix called |
1:14.3 | Meghan and Harry, their little docu-mini series, I guess, that was essentially a PR campaign |
1:19.8 | in the form of a miniseries that tried to paint Meghan as just this inspiring, brave, |
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