A documentary series about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex has been delayed via Netflix until next year.
According to Deadline, the fly-on-the-wall-style program has been pushed lower back due to terrible press surrounding Season 5 of The Crown.
In addition, Prince Harry and Meghan had been rumoured to have approached the streaming giant, asking for a prolong after the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II in September.
Netflix had been wanting to air the documentary off the returned of The Crown, which premieres on November 9, to capitalise on the drama's success.
But it seems the platform has had a trade of heart.
It's believed plans to exhibit the documentary so soon after The Crown would be a mistake.
"They're rattled at Netflix, and they blinked first and determined to put off the documentary," a supply informed Deadline.
The fifth season of the hit drama is facing increasing criticism over its dramatisation of the royal family, with plot strains verging some distance from fact and into pure fantasy.
Many critics have referred to as the show's return so soon after the loss of life of the Queen insensitive and distasteful, while many of the imagined conversations featured have angered these nonetheless alive.
Just days ago, former British top minister Sir John Major said made-up conversations between him and the late Queen were "damaging and malicious fiction".
The Queen Mother's professional biographer labelled the exhibit "odious" and "deliberately hurtful".
Prince Harry and Meghan's docu-series is produced by way of Netflix and Archewell Productions but a launch date used to be by no means given, nor was a title.
Now, Netflix has told Deadline "there's by no means been any documentary from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed".
Cameras had been following the couple for extra than a year, overlaying their charitable events such as visits to New York and the Netherlands for the Invictus Games.
Scenes had been also reportedly filmed at their home in Montecito, California.
Prince Harry's tell-all book, extensively predicted to be released by the stop of the year, has additionally been pushed again with hints it might no longer come out till mid-2023.
However, royal writer Tina Brown speculated the memoir "won't see the mild of day", speculating King Charles would "have to pay lower back the increase to give up Harry writing this book".
Last week, Page Six reported bosses at Netflix had been left stressed by way of some of the comments made by the royal couple in the documentary and what Prince Harry has stated in his tell-all book.
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"A lot in the show contradicted what Harry has written, so that used to be an issue," an industry supply advised Page Six.
"Then Harry and Meghan made vast requests [to filmmakers] to stroll lower back content material they themselves have provided, for their own project."
Prince Harry and Meghan were rumoured to have sought the delay to enable them to make edits following the loss of life of the Queen.
They are said to have desired to cast off feedback they had made on digital camera about King Charles III, Camilla the Queen Consort and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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