Speaker 1: Calorogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Palace Injury Game,
Speaker 1: your host Mark Francis. The Sussexes have come under scrutiny
Speaker 1: after Megan Markle shared a photograph of Prince Harry and
Speaker 1: their daughter, Princess Lilibet on a boat without the three
Speaker 1: year old wearing a life jacket. The image, posted on
Speaker 1: Instagram to mark International Women's Day on March eighth, shows
Speaker 1: Harry cradling Lilibit on his lap and kissing her head.
Speaker 1: While intended as a heartfelt family moment, some viewers quickly
Speaker 1: took issue with the apparent safety oversight, branding it irresponsible
Speaker 1: and even suggesting it may violate California law. California regulations
Speaker 1: require children under thirteen to wear a life jacket at
Speaker 1: all times while on a moving vessel, regardless of its size.
Speaker 1: Social media users were swift to criticize the couple over
Speaker 1: safety concerns. Megan's lifestyle series with Loved Meghan has generated
Speaker 1: plenty of headline and podcasts, but struggled to make a
Speaker 1: significant impact in the ratings. The eight part series only
Speaker 1: just made it into Netflix's top ten ranking at number ten,
Speaker 1: with twelve point six million hours viewed in its first week.
Speaker 1: In comparison, the week's top performer, Kate Hudson's comedy Running Point,
Speaker 1: pulled in sixty one point eight million hours, according to
Speaker 1: data compiled by company Samba TV. The series drew in
Speaker 1: just five hundred twenty six thousand households in its first
Speaker 1: five days, compared to the two point one million that
Speaker 1: tuned in for Harry and Meghan in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: The numbers fall well short of Harry and Meghan, the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two Netflix documentary that became the streamer's biggest
Speaker 1: documentary debut, racking up eighty one point six million hours
Speaker 1: in its first three days and nearly one hundred eighty
Speaker 1: million in its first full week. Other projects tied to
Speaker 1: the Sussexes, such as Live to Lead, Heart of Invectus
Speaker 1: and Harry's Polo series, failed to crack Netflix's top ten altogether,
Speaker 1: leaving their viewership figures unclear. An industry source tells The
Speaker 1: Daily Mail the industry bibles like The Hollywood Reporter and
Speaker 1: Variety are not keen on it. He said, Netflix buses
Speaker 1: are all worried because they have invested a lot in
Speaker 1: the product line. They don't know when and how to
Speaker 1: roll it all out. Unclear is how the reception to
Speaker 1: the TV series will affect the plans for brick and
Speaker 1: mortar Netflix stores selling Megan's dog biscuits and jam. Pr
Speaker 1: expert Nick Eid warned, Hollywood is falling out of love
Speaker 1: with Megan and Harry because over there you have to
Speaker 1: earn your stripes, and it really feels that they haven't
Speaker 1: earned those stripes. If you are a George Clooney, you're
Speaker 1: an Arnold Schwarzenegger, you can get to a level where
Speaker 1: you can be a little bit political, where you can
Speaker 1: use your gravitas to really make a change. What I
Speaker 1: feel about Megan and Harry is they haven't earned that,
Speaker 1: so people are beginning to stop listening. Journalists Dawn Nissan added,
Speaker 1: it's not just Fanity Fair that has turned on them.
Speaker 1: It does feel like the whole of Hollywood has turned
Speaker 1: on them. But there has been a seismic change in
Speaker 1: how people feel about Harry and Meghan in America. I
Speaker 1: saw was told Vanity Fair that the Royals weren't planning
Speaker 1: on watching Meghan's show. One inside her said the King
Speaker 1: knows more than enough about beekeeping. Besides he's far too
Speaker 1: busy to sit down and watch it. As part of
Speaker 1: her promotional campaign for her Beekeeping series on Netflix, Megan
Speaker 1: appeared at Godmother's Bookshop and said, right now, I'm launching
Speaker 1: my business as Ever, which has been my heart song
Speaker 1: for years. Every day on learning so much as a
Speaker 1: founder and taking baby steps and big strides at the
Speaker 1: same time, making mistakes and learning from them, and really
Speaker 1: working to find all the joy while diving into the
Speaker 1: creative process and the business. Being in the granular parts
Speaker 1: of the business gives me the same feeling I have
Speaker 1: when I'm gardening, bare hands in the soil, planting the
Speaker 1: seed with so much care and nurturing it as it grows.
Speaker 1: There's something energizing about being in my forties and turning
Speaker 1: my passion project into a business and sharing that with
Speaker 1: the world. Tina Brown has delivered a scathing critique of
Speaker 1: With Love Megan, calling it yet another misstep in Meghan
Speaker 1: Markle's post royal career. The former Vanity Fair editor declared
Speaker 1: that the show is proof the Duchess of Sussex has
Speaker 1: an unerring instinct forgetting it wrong, and argued that the
Speaker 1: only program that might have worked would have been one
Speaker 1: in which Meghan acknowledged what a flaming flopped the last
Speaker 1: five years have been. In her Fresh Hell newsletter, Brown
Speaker 1: questioned Markle's brand a strategy, describing her as too damn
Speaker 1: impatient and ridiculing the rushed roll out of her American
Speaker 1: Rivenra Orchard lifestyle line, now rebranded as as Ever who
Speaker 1: announces a new lifestyle brand and Helene's celebrity friends to
Speaker 1: tork up her strawberry jam without doing due diligence on
Speaker 1: the availability of the trademark she equipped. Tina revisited mexitt
Speaker 1: saying all Meghan had to do was shut up and wait,
Speaker 1: go quiet for a couple of years, start a family,
Speaker 1: keep her eyes trained on the splendid royal estate that
Speaker 1: would soon come up for grabs, but no offer the
Speaker 1: Commonwealth or Netflix. The Sussex's with naive Avarice chose Netflix.
Speaker 1: A source told Meil online that while Meghan had celebrated
Speaker 1: the series new for the second season, the contract itself
Speaker 1: had not yet been extended. They filmed the shows back
Speaker 1: to back, so in theory, there is no second season,
Speaker 1: just edits being made. Based on feedback from press and
Speaker 1: Netflix viewers, it's clever and cost effective. So no, the
Speaker 1: overall contract hasn't been renewed yet. Palace Intrigue will be
Speaker 1: right back. The latest People magazine feature on Meghan Markel
Speaker 1: has sparked a debate with British broadcaster and photographer Helena Chard,
Speaker 1: questioning its portrayal of the Duchess of Sussex. Chard said
Speaker 1: Meghan is desperate to receive accolades in public approval. She
Speaker 1: longs to be perceived as the best thing since Slice spread.
Speaker 1: Her aim, with the help of certain publications, is to
Speaker 1: revamp her character and change the public's perception. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: she along with Netflix, needs bums on the seats and
Speaker 1: future bustling sales. The public has a long memory of
Speaker 1: Megan's behavior, the hurt and upset cause to the royal family.
Speaker 1: Meghan hasn't redeemed herself. If anything, she has shown a
Speaker 1: passive aggressive sign to the public as she clings to
Speaker 1: her royal title. Apparently, the crew on Megan's show enjoyed
Speaker 1: working with the so called Duchess of difficult One crew
Speaker 1: member told people whether it was a coffee cart in
Speaker 1: the morning or there was one day where the forecast
Speaker 1: called for it to be particularly hot, and she had
Speaker 1: a shaved ice truck for us. At lunch one day,
Speaker 1: she had a bespoke ice cream cart with local homemade
Speaker 1: ice cream. She had an Seia truck for us. Two
Speaker 1: every week she did something like that for us. It
Speaker 1: was really lovely. Another told people she was a great
Speaker 1: hostess between takes. If something was ready to eat, she'd
Speaker 1: cut it into bite sized pieces and serve it to us.
Speaker 1: Mindy Kayling has weighed in on the latest online uproar
Speaker 1: surrounding Megan, addressing the reaction to a moment in with
Speaker 1: Love Megan where the Duchess corrected her on the use
Speaker 1: of her name. Appearing on the view to promote her
Speaker 1: own show. Running Point, Kayling was asked about her experience
Speaker 1: cooking with Megan on the Netflix series You Know I
Speaker 1: had a great time, she said, before acknowledging the viral
Speaker 1: response to their exchange. I noticed that whenever I do
Speaker 1: something anything related to Megan comes like killing trailed off
Speaker 1: before co host will Be Goldberg stepped in, saying big news.
Speaker 1: Kling nodded and repeated big news. Goldberg then added, people
Speaker 1: love to hate her. People love to talk about a
Speaker 1: sentiment Kailing agreed with calling the online reaction to Megan
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