Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's relationship with Netflix is "dead" according to a source close to the company.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed a lucrative deal with the streaming giant in 2020 after stepping down as working members of the Royal Family.
Meghan Markle's second season of her lifestyle programme, With Love, Meghan, will be released on the platform later this year.
However, after the first reason massively underperformed, Netflix have decided not to renew a deal with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their current contract expires in 2025.
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|Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's relationship with Netflix is "dead" according to a source close to the company.
A Netflix source has claimed regarding the contract with Meghan Markle: "This deal is dead.
"She had everything going for her—name, platform, press—and the numbers were dismal.
"They're just waiting for the credits to roll. They're letting it expire without drama. There's no appetite for anything new."
It comes as Meghan Markle's lifestyle programme failed to secure a place amongst Netflix's 300 most-watched shows for the first half of 2025, marking another disappointment in the couple's media ventures.
With Love, Meghan attracted just 5.3 million views, placing it at number 383 on the streaming platform's rankings.
The programme sits alongside decade-old content, matching viewing figures for the 2014 second series of Peaky Blinders and the fourth series of Suits from 2011, the legal drama that originally featured Meghan.
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|The Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed a lucrative deal with the streaming giant in 2020 after stepping down as working members of the Royal Family.
This lacklustre performance represents a significant blow to Harry and Meghan's aspirations of building a successful media empire, particularly given their reported eight-figure agreement with Netflix signed in 2020.
The lifestyle programme launched in March with considerable fanfare, featuring Meghan demonstrating cooking and gardening techniques alongside celebrity guests including actor Mindy Kaling.
Netflix marketed the show as "inspiring", claiming Meghan "reimagines the genre of lifestyle programming".
Initially, the series entered Netflix's global top 10 within 24 hours of release. However, viewership rapidly declined following a wave of critical reviews.
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|This lacklustre performance represents a significant blow to Harry and Meghan's aspirations of building a successful media empire.
The couple's five-year Netflix contract, established through their production company Archewell, has yielded limited success beyond their initial documentary Harry & Meghan.
Whilst the documentary's premiere became Netflix's biggest documentary debut, it was widely criticised and experienced a sharp decline in viewership.
Last year's data revealed that Suits accumulated nine times more viewing hours than the royal documentary.
Their other Netflix productions, Heart of Invictus and Polo, have similarly failed to generate significant audience interest.