Netflix 'wants to screen Harry and Meghan doc around The Crown's season to capitalize on his book'.

 

Netflix is hoping to display Harry and Meghan's documentary round the same time as the upcoming season of The Crown to capitalize on the Duke's upcoming biography.

Multiple sources advised Page Six the main streaming carrier doesn't favor to be 'scooped' with the aid of the Duke's memoir, regardless of claims the Sussexes choose the documentary to air next year.

Harry's book is set to be launched sometime this fall, and Netflix will be keen to capitalize on the big buzz that the tell-all tome will probably generate.

The embattled streamer is also said to be keen to similarly enhance royal fever by way of running the Sussexes as yet-untitled documentary right now after the fifth series of The Crown.

It will hit monitors in November. The Crown - which has sparked fury amongst monarchists - will tell the story of Harry's late mother Diana's separation from her husband Prince Charles.

Diana will be performed by way of Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, with Dominic West taking on the position of Charles.

It will be set in the course of the 1990s, although it stays uncertain if this series will function Diana's loss of life in in a 1997 Paris vehicle crash, or whether that will characteristic in the sixth and closing series.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been filming the Netflix documentary for extra than a yr after signing a broadly suggested $100million deal in 2021.

'[Netflix executives] knew the e book used to be coming out, which is why they desired the sequence this year,' a supply instructed Page Six. 'They don’t favor to hold off any longer.' two two

The royal couple, however, reportedly needs the series to hit the small display screen next year, in accordance to Page Six.

DailyMail.com has contacted Netflix for comment. On Tuesday, Netflix revealed it had misplaced 950,000 subscribers in the 2d quarter of 2022.

Analysts had predicted far worse news - and up to two million fewer subscribers. But Netflix's $201.93 share charge sits way under the $693 record of October 2021 - with bosses in all likelihood banking on a royal programing bonanza to drive new customers to their service.

The drama-filled couple has been filming the documentary with left-leaning filmmaker Liz Garbus, who directed a season of the Handmaid's Tale.

Garbus used to be additionally due to work on the Duchess' collection Pearl earlier than it was scrapped by Netflix.

Netflix movie crews had been viewed shooting the couple's every pass at the Invictus Games in April. The corporation has despatched a camera crew to follow Harry and Meghan when they meet the Ukraine team at the Invictus Games for injured navy veterans in the Netherlands for their documentary about the Paralympic-style games.

But critics have accused the royal couple of 'cashing in' on the Games with the aid of allowing Netflix into non-public meetings. And royal experts trust the VIP repute given to the couple will permit Netflix to painting the couple in a favorable light, as they deal with the fallout from their bombshell interview with Oprah closing year.

Speaking to MailOnline in the past this year, Meghan's acid-penned biographer Tom Bower sensationally branded the Sussexes 'the Royal Family's worst traducers' and accused the couple of 'exploiting an old, sick woman to improve their credibility and coffers.' two

They had been additionally reportedly filmed assembly with the Queen until now this yr after Netflix's dismay for the couple failing to be pictured collectively earlier this year.

Bower said: 'I have no doubt it was once all accomplished for their Netflix documentary. The Queen's advisers failed to shield her from being exploited via the Royal Family's worst traducers, whilst the Sussexes exploited an old, sick woman to increase their credibility and coffers.'

Other experts suggested that the surprise face-to-face meeting with the Queen, who turned 96 in April, and has experienced a series of health issues recently, was once an 'olive branch' after tremendous tension between the Sussexes and Royal Family.

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