The status of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s relationship with Netflix has been making news after a recent report in Variety, but on Tuesday, March 24, Deadline broke the news that the couple will be venturing into new territory with the streamer. Per the media outlet, Harry and Meghan will co-produce a scripted drama through their company, Archewell Productions, about polo players in “the high-flying equestrian town of Wellington, FL.”
The Duke of Sussex, who is an avid polo player, has competed in Wellington himself and is strongly familiar with the culture surrounding the sport. Archewell Productions also produced a Netflix documentary titled Polo in 2024 that followed players at the U.S. Open Polo Championship, but it struggled with ratings.
Per Deadline, the currently untitled new show will explore “the messy dynamics between two rival teams and the families that lead them.”
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Prince Harry is pictured playing polo at the 2024 Royal Salute Polo Challenge in Wellington, Florida.
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Harry and Meghan pose with his winning team at the Royal Salute Polo Challenge.
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Pegged as an “upstairs-downstairs drama,” the program will also be produced by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, in addition to Archewell Productions.
Although Polo failed to be a success for Netflix, the new show will be “widening the scope of what is considered an elitist ‘sport of kings’ beyond the rich owners and players,” per Deadline.
The news comes after Netflix parted ways with Meghan’s lifestyle brand, As Ever, and insiders told Variety that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s relationship with the streamer was struggling. “The mood in the building is ‘We’re done,’” one source told the media outlet.
However, as Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s chief content officer, said at an event last week, there are “movies in development” as well as a documentary and other projects in the works with Archewell Productions. “Deals come and go all the time, and we don’t renew so many deals, those just don’t get as much press for obvious reasons. There’s no juicy story there,” Bajaria said.