{"id":696228,"date":"2026-07-17T07:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696228\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:25:11","slug":"meghan-markles-emmy-nomination-makes-sense-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696228\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s Emmy nomination makes sense, actually"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finally, there\u2019s some good news<\/a> to come out of Meghan Markle<\/a> and Prince Harry\u2019s Netflix<\/a> partnership. <\/p>\n

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex famously signed a rumoured multi-million dollar deal with the streamer back in 2020, not long after they had stepped back from royal duties and stepped into life in the Californian enclave of Montecito<\/a>. <\/p>\n

One of only a handful of projects that materialised from said deal was With Love, Meghan, a lifestyle series in which the duchess opened the doors not to her Santa Barbara home, exactly, but to a home \u2013 a farmhouse a few miles down the road rented for the purposes of filming \u2013 and shared her secrets to becoming the perfect host.<\/p>\n

The show, it\u2019s fair to say, was not a universal hit. It went down with critics about as well as you\u2019d imagine a copy of Spare might be received in the Windsor Castle library. Reviewing it for this paper, I found it to be sickly sweet and a bit exhausting<\/a> \u2013 there were so many edible flowers to be sprinkled over every available surface, so many guest gift baskets to curate, so many stilted conversations with Mindy Kaling and other celeb guests. <\/p>\n

It ran for a second season \u2013 my esteemed colleague Helen Coffey described<\/a> the viewing experience as akin to being \u201cgaslit by a multimillionaire insisting that constructing homemade necklaces or flower arrangements is a cinch\u201d \u2013 and a Christmas special,<\/a> but was cancelled by Netflix earlier this year. Viewing figures, by all accounts, were dismal \u2013 season two ended up ranking as the streamer\u2019s 1,124th most-watched show between July and December 2025.<\/p>\n

In March, Netflix also parted ways<\/a> with Meghan\u2019s lifestyle company As Ever, which sells jams (sorry, preserves), candles, teas, and Napa Valley wines (the streamer, I should add, still holds a first-look deal with Meghan and Harry\u2019s Archewell Productions). <\/p>\n

\"SourSour taste: The Duchess of Sussex\u2019s series \u2018With Love, Meghan\u2019 didn\u2019t inspire much love from its viewers (Netflix)<\/p>\n

Now, though, it looks like With Love is getting its (edible) flowers. Earlier this week, it was announced that it has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award <\/a>for outstanding lifestyle series. \u201cA huge congratulations to the amazing crew, producers and team who worked on With Love, Meghan on Netflix,\u201d the duchess wrote in a celebratory Instagram post. <\/p>\n

It is news that has inevitably raised eyebrows \u2013 how could a show that was panned from all sides and failed to win over many viewers be in line for one of America\u2019s biggest television awards? But the hand-wringing from the duchess\u2019s detractors largely misses the point \u2013 I\u2019d even go as far as to argue that the nomination makes perfect sense (and I\u2019m far from a With Love devotee). <\/p>\n

Put frankly, it\u2019s not exactly like With Love is up for the TV equivalent of the Oscars\u2019 Best Picture award. The Daytime Emmys tend to be considered the lesser-loved sibling of the main event. The Primetime Emmys are where you\u2019ll see the likes of The Pitt and Slow Horses slogging it out, while the Daytime version is all about soapy stalwarts like General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, or Drew Barrymore versus Kelly Clarkson in the talk show category. <\/p>\n

\"WithWith love… again: the second series was savaged by critics when it was released in August (Netflix)<\/p>\n

Over in the lifestyle category, Meghan faces stiff competition. There\u2019s A Different Breed, a \u201cdogumentary\u201d about competitive sports for dogs; George to the Rescue, a home renovation show that appears to star the American equivalent of Handy Andy from Changing Rooms, The Motherhood, a Hallmark reality show where White Lotus star Connie Britton helps busy moms balance their lives, and the brilliantly titled The Wizard of Paws, about an animal prosthetics expert. <\/p>\n

Acting like Meghan\u2019s show doesn\u2019t serve to be named in the hallowed company of these presumably solidly made but ultimately run-of-the-mill reality programmes is, as the canine stars of A Different Breed would probably put it, barking mad \u2013 and shows how anything can be stretched into an anti-Markle controversy. <\/p>\n

In fact, these kinds of shows are probably the peers that With Love should have been measured against in the first place, rather than reviewers \u2013 myself included \u2013 expecting that a bit of glossy fluff might serve as some sort of compelling docu-drama.<\/p>\n

And if the organisers of the Daytime Emmys are hoping that Meghan and Harry (or \u201cH\u201d as she so relentlessly nicknames him on screen) turn up to sprinkle their ceremony with a bit of stardust, who are we to judge? It will certainly earn them more press coverage and more intrigue than they might otherwise expect. <\/p>\n

If anything, this nomination is a fascinating benchmark of the Sussexes\u2019 celebrity status right now. When they left the royal family, they aimed for the upper echelons of the A-list. But these days, they\u2019re hanging on to a much lower rung of the Hollywood ladder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}