GMB: Max Beesley calls Meghan Markle a ‘wonderful actress’

Meghan Markle has become one of America’s most watched actresses on TV…..five years after quitting her career on legal drama Suits to marry Prince Harry.

The show, which ended after 134 episodes a year after her departure, has been bought jointly by Netflix and Peacock and has rocketed straight to the top of the streaming charts with an astonishing 2.3 billion minutes watched by viewers in its first week.

This compares vastly with its audience when originally aired between 2011 and 2019 on the USA network, with an audience of 4.6 million at its peak, slumping to barely a million at the end.

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Meghan’s real-life elevation to the Royal Family has sparked huge renewed interest in her Suits character, hotshot paralegal Rachel Zane.

But it is highly unlikely the Duchess of Sussex will be banking a fortune in residual payments.

These are fees paid to performers on a sliding scale for every repeat airing of their shows and stars like those on the cast of Friends are still earning millions a year from re-runs on broadcast TV.

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Streamers like Netflix are under fire from striking actors and writers for having upended that entire system by slashing performers’ fees to often pitiful amounts.

One bar in Hollywood is offering strikers a free beer if they can show a genuine check for less than a dollar from any broadcaster.

Meghan and Harry’s production company Archewell already, of course, has in place a £78 million ($100 million) five-year content deal with Netflix, which will be up for renewal in 2025.

A spokesperson for the royal couple did not respond to requests for comment on Meghan’s streaming success with Suits, in which she appeared in 108 episodes.

The show claimed more than double the number of viewing hours of its closest competitor in the week of June 19 to 25, according to figures released by audience monitoring agency Nielsen. Police drama S.W.A.T. – which jointly airs on Netflix, Hulu and Paramount+ — registered a little over a billion viewing minutes.

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