{"id":2465546,"date":"2025-07-23T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ratings-for-duchess-meghans-show-are-catastrophic-we-honestly-didnt-know-the-rating-numbers-went-this-low\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:03:36","slug":"ratings-for-duchess-meghans-show-are-catastrophic-we-honestly-didnt-know-the-rating-numbers-went-this-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ratings-for-duchess-meghans-show-are-catastrophic-we-honestly-didnt-know-the-rating-numbers-went-this-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings for Duchess Meghan&#8217;s Show Are Catastrophic &#8211; We Honestly Didn&#8217;t Know the Rating Numbers Went This Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fratings-for-duchess-meghans-show-are-catastrophic-we-honestly-didnt-know-the-rating-numbers-went-this-low%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2465546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes Meghan Markle&#8217;s Netflix homemaking series &#8220;With Love, Meghan,&#8221; describing it as a major failure. Despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >high-profile 0 million deal<\/a> for the couple, the show only stayed six days in Netflix&#8217;s top 10 and ranked 383rd in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-approval-of-us-leadership-skyrockets-under-biden-poll-shows\/\" title=\"Global Approval Of US Leadership Skyrockets Under Biden, Poll ...s\">global views<\/a> for the first half of 2025, with just 5.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-who-used-gorilla-glue-as-hair-spray-considers-suing-company-raises-thousands-in-gofundme-report\/\" title=\"Woman Who Used \u2018Gorilla Glue\u2019 As Hair Spray Considers Suing Company, Raises Thousands in GoFundMe: Report\">3 million views<\/a>-comparable to older reruns and less popular children&#8217;s programs. The production faced setbacks, including filming in a rented home rather than Meghan&#8217;s actual residence, and was mocked for out-of-touch content, such as Meghan&#8217;s advice on hosting kids&#8217; parties. Critics gave the show poor reviews, with a 36% rotten Tomatoes rating and harsh commentary from major outlets like The Guardian. Additionally, Prince Harry&#8217;s documentary &#8220;Polo&#8221; performed even worse.The article concludes that despite the lucrative deals,Meghan and Harry&#8217;s Netflix projects underperformed substantially and continue to draw criticism as &#8220;grifters.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, we can finally agree on one thing about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: We may enjoy the drama, but we&rsquo;re not buying the grift.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/decider.com\/2025\/07\/19\/meghan-markle-with-love-meghan-viewers-netflix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Decider<\/a>, Meghan&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/meghan-duchess-sussex-roasted-eagle-eyed-viewers-notice-weird-problem-homemade-waffles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thought-to-be-highly-anticipated homemaking<\/a> show on Netflix has turned out to be a &ldquo;massive flop,&rdquo; with the streaming series spending only six days in the streaming service&rsquo;s top 10 just after release.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Newly released streaming data from Netflix reveals that Meghan Markle&rsquo;s home-and-hearth series failed to crack even the Top 300 most-watched shows for the first half of 2025,&rdquo; Decider reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Clocking in at No. 383, the show drew just 5.3 million global views, putting it on par with reruns of &lsquo;Peaky Blinders&rsquo; Season 2, a 2007 season of &lsquo;Gossip Girl,&rsquo; and a kids&rsquo; show called &lsquo;Grizzly and the Lemmings.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The difference here, of course, is that &ldquo;Peaky Blinders&rdquo; is good; &ldquo;Gossip Girl&rdquo; is better than either &ldquo;Suits&rdquo; or &ldquo;With Love, Meghan,&rdquo; and I&rsquo;m sure Grizzly and those lemmings are pretty decent for the kiddies. (Or for adults, if you have to choose between them and watching Meghan keep house.)<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=85b3g8c8\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>However, with all that competition, it&rsquo;s worth noting that the celebrity royals of California have a $100 million deal with Netflix &mdash; and this was supposed to be the first breakout hit.<\/p>\n<p>And if you think that 5.3 million views is good, consider &ldquo;With Love, Meghan&rdquo; and its views compared to other shows. &ldquo;Adolescence,&rdquo; the top performer during that period, managed 145 million views. Meanwhile, &ldquo;The Residence&rdquo; &mdash; a show that was canceled &mdash; drew 33 million views.<\/p>\n<p>The show&rsquo;s troubled production didn&rsquo;t help matters, either. First came the revelation that the show, despite promising an &ldquo;at home with Meghan,&rdquo; wasn&rsquo;t actually filmed at her home. Instead, she rented a home two miles away for the production of the show &mdash; a house that was worth less, it&rsquo;s worth noting, although this is just relative in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/complete-incompetence-meghan-duchess-sussex-mercilessly-mocked-secret-new-home-show-gets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montecito, California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then came news of a hilariously out-of-touch anecdote from one of the show&rsquo;s guests, comedienne Mindy Kaling, who described the &ldquo;practical&rdquo; tips that Meghan gave for hosting children&rsquo;s parties.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love cooking, but I&rsquo;m really not good at entertaining. I don&rsquo;t know anything about how you&rsquo;re not supposed to use overhead lighting when people come over. You&rsquo;re supposed to use little lamps,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/meghan-duchess-sussex-brutally-dragged-completely-touch-tip-kids-birthday-parties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaling said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But Meghan just knows how to do that stuff. For kids&rsquo; parties I usually just go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-duchess-of-sussex-brutally-dragged-for-completely-out-of-touch-tip-for-kids-birthday-parties\/\" title=\"..., Duchess of Sussex, Brutally Dragged for Completely Out of Touch &#039;Tip&#039; for Kids Birthday Parties\">party supply store<\/a> and get paper things, which I don&rsquo;t judge and neither does she,&rdquo; Kaling added. &ldquo;But it was fun to learn simple ways to do a homemade kids&rsquo; party.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Like buying a lot of little lamps for a kids&rsquo; party. Right. Simple!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the show currently has a 36 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the reviews have been equally scathing.<\/p>\n<p>Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/mar\/04\/with-love-meghan-review-netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K. Guardian<\/a>, which awarded Meghan&rsquo;s attempt to do a Martha Stewart impression one star out of five and called it &ldquo;toe-curlingly unlovable TV.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh God, it&rsquo;s toe-curling stuff, but hardly surprising. We all saw Meghan show Oprah her chicken coop. Her lifestyle brand was until very recently, called American Riviera Orchard, which I think was supposed to give off an Alice Waters idyll filmed by Nancy Meyers vibe, but sounded more like the sister takeaway to Chicken Cottage,&rdquo; Chitra Ramaswamy wrote. &ldquo;Anyway, she&rsquo;s now renamed it As Ever. Frankly, WhatEver would be more on brand. Because what &lsquo;With Love, Meghan&rsquo; vibrates with most is a vacuous, over styled joylessness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When all is said and done, there is but one aspect of &lsquo;With Love, Meghan&rsquo; on which we can all agree &mdash; her old beagle, Guy, is a real honey,&rdquo; Ramaswamy added. When the one thing that you can praise is that the dog is adorable, there are <em>problems<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but it gets better, if you like schadenfreude: &ldquo;Prince Harry, however, fared worse. His documentary &lsquo;Polo,&rsquo; a behind-the-scenes look at the elite sport, ranked No. 3,436 with just 500,000 views worldwide,&rdquo; which is &ldquo;on par with reruns of &lsquo;He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Do the math and that means that Netflix has thus far paid Harry and Meghan $17.24 per view of their shows. Remember when Spotify executive and podcaster Bill Simmons called the couple &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/prince-harry-meghan-mocked-grifters-executive-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the f***ing grifters<\/a>&rdquo; for getting a massive contract with the audio streaming giant and then producing one podcast where Meghan allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/total-entitlement-meghan-interviewed-guests-literally-laziest-way-possible-reports-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">couldn&rsquo;t even be present<\/a> for the interviews she &ldquo;did?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At least Meghan had to show up for her Netflix show, but from all accounts &mdash; especially those numbers &mdash; the Sussexes are still grifting, and hard.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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