The Meghan Markle and Prince Harry content material farm is going through contradictory provide and demand challenges. On the one hand, Netflix is reportedly threatening that the couple had higher give you some extra reveals, or $51 million comes off the desk. On the opposite, Spotify has discovered that the 12 episodes of Markle’s podcast, Archetypes, had been 10 episodes too many (the Serena Williams and Mariah Carey interviews had been blockbusters, however after that: crickets). And—in a mutual resolution! mutual!—it has minimize the couple unfastened from their $20 million deal. Collectively, the information tales fashioned a traditional instance of the macroeconomic precept of an excessive amount of, too little, too late.
In speedy response to the Netflix needling got here phrase that the couple was engaged on a attainable prequel to Nice Expectations, centered on the lifetime of a younger Miss Havisham. It was precisely the form of venture you could possibly think about them dreaming up and an enchancment, maybe, on one among Harry’s earlier pitches, “Jude the Obscure, however in Vegas.”
We discovered, too, of a non-public humiliation: Markle had composed a heartfelt and deeply private letter inviting Taylor Swift on her present, however obtained solely a rejection from her employees. Information additionally broke of some concepts for podcasts that Harry was reportedly contemplating making, together with speaking with the pope about “faith,” and with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump about their childhood.
An inventory of different attainable topics, its authenticity not confirmed, was leaked by the couple or presumably by the Prince and Princess of Wales, or maybe it was discovered on the finish of a California author’s backyard. Right here they’re:
Meghan’s Content material Concepts
Armed Vulnerability: How 24-Hour Personal Safety Can Make You Extra Open to Emotions
Two Ladies Speaking: Meghan and Gwyneth Get Actual About Italian Vogue
SCOTUS SHOT CLOCK: Alan Dershowitz, Gloria Allred, and Dua Lipa Clarify Why Justice Brandeis Believed within the ‘Proper to Be Let Alone’
Fits Reunion, Half 1
This Candle Smells Like My Prenup
Centering Your self When Others Are Centered on You: Discovering Peace on the Purple Carpet
Fits Reunion, Half 2, with Hoda Kotb
The Grandmother Was Additional
Purple Scare Booked Taylor Swift, and I’m Not Taking Calls
He Spends Two Days on the Witness Stand to Discuss About … Chelsy Davy?
Hoda Kotb Canceled. Unbelievable.
What Moms of Odd Kids Would possibly Really feel: A 4-Half Scientific Investigation
Amy Schumer (scheduling battle)
SCOTUS SHOT CLOCK: Kelly Clarkson and Former Princess Tessy of Luxembourg focus on Marbury v. Madison and Louis Vuitton’s Keepall 55
What I’d Actually Wish to Do Is a 12-Episode Single-Digicam Mockumentary That Showcases My Comedy Expertise
Brainstorming With Andrew Morton and Martin Bashir
Past Inexperienced Juice
Montecito Options to the Housing Disaster (It’s All About Zoning)
Chopping Out the Chelsy Davy Pages From 500,000 Copies of Spare
Fits Reunion Wrap-Up, With NBC4 Information Los Angeles Anchor Colleen Williams (confirmed)
Easy methods to Discuss So Matrimonial Attorneys Will Hear
The Individuals’s Duchess?
Harry’s Content material Concepts
Animals
Tall Issues and Brief Issues Ruined by Local weather Change
Slacks
Conversations With Obama (if out there)
Conversations With Tony Blair (if no Obama)
Conversations With Liz Truss (confirmed)
“Mediocrity”: What Is It and How Do You Spell It?
I Suppose I’m Nonetheless in Love With Chelsy Davy
Are My Mattress, Bathtub & Past Coupons Nugatory?
I Nonetheless Have Chelsy’s Diamond Earrings
If You want Piña Coladas
Trey Parker and Matt Stone Can Chunk Me
Chris Martin Acoustic Set (perhaps with the pope?)
I’m Trapped
Ukraine: The place Is It?
Can a Listener Please Get Me Out of Right here?
Coping With Princess Fucking Michael of Kent
I’m Bored with the Chickens
Easy methods to Write a Guide By Your self
I Wish to Go Dwelling