Kiss the Netflix deal goodbye! With Love, Meghan is so pointless it might be the Sussexes’ last TV show

After Harry’s dud polo docuseries, the couple need to get back to giving people the dramatic monarchy revelations they crave – not a Duchess joylessly filling kids’ party bags with seeds

Unless it becomes a ratings smash (and that isn’t impossible), With Love, Meghan doesn’t just represent the hard launch of Duchess of Sussex’s new career as a Martha Stewart-style lifestyle inspo guru; it might also be the final thing she makes for Netflix.

The terms of the deal Harry and Meghan signed with the streamer in 2021 were, by all accounts, wildly favourable. Their five-year deal was worth $100m, in the expectation that they would be so brimming with ideas that they would become Obama-style prestige-content producers. Reader, as you already know, this did not happen.

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Vowel movement: Abrdn renames itself Aberdeen to remove ‘distractions’

UK fund manager reverses 2021 rebrand that was criticised by brand expert as ‘ill thought-out’

When the UK fund manager Aberdeen removed the vowels from its name four years ago, it prompted a wave of whimsical mickey-taking and caused its boss to accuse those mocking Abrdn of “corporate bullying”. Now, its new boss has performed a U-turn and returned to the company’s original name – but without capital letters.

Alongside the Edinburgh-based company’s annual results, chief executive Jason Windsor, the former finance chief who was promoted to the top job in September, announced the “pragmatic decision” to bring back its vowels – and remove any “distractions”.

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Police to interview The Crown actor Khalid Abdalla over Gaza protest

Actor says he has received letter from Met over January march in London, and says right to protest is ‘under attack’

The Crown actor Khalid Abdalla has said he has been summoned to attend a “formal interview” by the Metropolitan police in connection with a pro-Palestine protest.

Abdalla, who played Dodi Fayed in the Netflix series based on the royal family, said on social media he had received the letter in relation to a Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest on 18 January.

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