{"id":556540,"date":"2026-03-24T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556540\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:28:08","slug":"prince-harry-meghan-markle-producing-polo-drama-in-works-at-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556540\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Producing Polo Drama In Works At Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: After producing the 2024 Netflix<\/a> docuseries Polo<\/a>, Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle<\/a> are revisiting the world in a scripted form. The streamer is developing a polo-themed drama, which the Sussexes are executive producing under their Netflix deal. It comes from the duo\u2019s Archewell Productions and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage\u2019s Fake Empire. <\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Francisca X. Hu (Peacock\u2019s Teacup), the untitled project is an upstairs-downstairs drama set in the high-flying equestrian town of Wellington, FL, which revolves around the messy dynamics between two rival teams and the families that lead them.<\/p>\n

\n\tHu executive produces alongside Archewell\u2019s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; and head of scripted content Tracy Ryerson; as well as Fake Empire\u2019s Schwartz and Savage.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama is believed to stem from the docuseries Polo, which followed the teams competing at the\u00a0U.S. Open Polo Championship held in Wellington, and the family dynasties involved. A passion project of Prince Harry, an avid polo player who has a lot of friends in that world, the docuseries did not draw a lot of eyeballs and ran for one season. The scripted show is widening the scope of what is considered an elitist \u201csport of kings\u201d beyond the rich owners and players.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe polo drama is one of a handful of projects Prince Harry and Markle have in development at Netflix under their deal, which was previously overall and is now first-look. <\/p>\n

\n\tThey include features The Wedding Date, which, as Deadline revealed in December, Tracy Oliver has come on board to write<\/a> based on Jasmine Guillory\u2019s book; and\u00a0an adaptation of Carley Fortune\u2019s\u00a0Meet Me at the Lake<\/a>. A director is now being attached to the latter and is expected to do a rewrite, sources said.<\/p>\n

\n\tWork on the projects continues amid a high level of scrutiny following Netflix\u2019s recent pullout as an investor<\/a> in Markle\u2019s lifestyle brand As Ever and the streamer\u2019s docuseries used as a launchpad for the brand,\u00a0With Love, Meghan, not going beyond its initial two-season order.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe still have a relationship with them,\u201d Netflix\u2019s Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria said last week<\/a> at the Next on Netflix event when asked by Deadline about the duo\u2019s workings with the global streamer, brushing off reports that Netflix may be \u201cdone\u201d with them. \u201cWe have movies in development with them. We have an amazing doc with them. They have things in development on the TV and film side. Deals come and go all the time, and we don\u2019t renew so many deals, those just don\u2019t get as much press for obvious reasons. There\u2019s no juicy story there.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tPrince Harry and Markle\u2019s most successful project for Netflix to date remains their first collaboration with the streamer, the 2022 Harry & Meghan, which logged Netflix\u2019s most watched docuseries debut.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks a reteaming of Hu with Schwartz and Savage after she served as a writer-producer on their CW drama series Dynasty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After producing the 2024 Netflix docuseries Polo, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are revisiting the world in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,1066,1316,63248,1065],"class_list":["post-556540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-meghan-markle","tag-netflix","tag-polo","tag-prince-harry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}