The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Polo series is now streaming on Netflix. Harry and Meghan still have not done one iota of promotion for a series they appear in (however briefly) and executive produced. Many Sussex-supporters tend to assume that everything Harry & Meghan do or don’t do is the right decision and then justify the Sussexes’ decisions working from that premise. But it’s really bonkers that the Sussexes aren’t doing even minor promotion for their Netflix docuseries. Last year, Prince Harry absolutely should have given interviews to support Heart of Invictus. This month, Harry and Meghan should have given interviews and hosted a screening for Polo. They have not. Instead of any of that, Polo’s showrunner Miloš Balać gave a lengthy interview to People Mag about the Sussexes’ involvement. Why can’t the Sussexes speak of their involvement themselves? I will never understand their media strategies, truly.
Miloš Balać says the Sussexes had a vision: “They were wonderful. They were extremely hands-on. They really had a vision for trying to get polo to be accessible to a wider audience. Prince Harry knows the sport inside and out. To be able to have him as someone to bounce ideas off of and then also to get notes from… ‘Maybe if you edit it like this, the polo will just feel even more exciting. Or you got to make sure that the point is played out like this because that’s how you keep it factually accurate.’ To have a polo expert in-house with him was so special. I think a lot of projects have EPs that can give great notes, but it’s rare that you have someone who’s truly an expert in the subject that you are documenting.”
Harry was important in bringing in the Cambiasos: Balać tells PEOPLE that Prince Harry hoped (as the larger team did) to bring in Adolfo and Poroto Cambiaso, a father and son set of polo stars. Adolfo is esteemed as one of the best polo players of all time, while his 17-year-old son is an emerging talent. “I think his hope from very early on, which was all of our hopes, is that the Cambiaso’s would be interested and willing to participate because of how much they mean in this world and to the sport and how much they’ve contributed as a whole,” Balać says. “On top of that, just having the incredible story that they have as a father-son duo that have played side by side for so long and [spoiler alert!] were finally playing against each other. So it was definitely early on it was like, ‘Let’s try and get the Cambiasos,’ was something he put on my to-do list and we were able to do it, so that was a great payoff.”
Meghan loved watching polo: “I think I spoke to them before I ever went to a polo match and it was [Meghan] who really prepped me for how wonderfully casual polo can be,” Balać tells PEOPLE about the Duchess of Sussex’s specific idea for the series. “Sunday polo on Field One at the U.S. Polo Center is a big to-do where people have champagne brunches and come with their beautiful outfits. But the rest of the week, every polo match is actually so down to earth. It’s a lot of people pulling up in their pickup trucks and their cowboy boots, if not barefoot, with their dogs and their families and their kids to watch the game that they love. They’re there not to see and be seen, but to enjoy the sport that they really care about and people show up to that for free and you just pull up and she said that that’s what she loves.”
Meghan loves tailgating: “She also loves tailgating at a polo match, and that just sort of set a lightbulb in my head where I was like, ‘Oh, this world is really not going to be what I think it is, in a good way,” the showrunner continues. “And we were able to then dig deeper into all the ways that it isn’t what people assume it is.”
Harry’s friendship with Ignacio “Nacho” Figueras: “They really are great friends. That much is beyond obvious. When Prince Harry happened to be along for the Sentebale charity match, which we featured, just seeing them together at the polo field was infectious,” he says. “It’s like two buddies who really love each other and love the sport together having a great time and raising money for a good cause was just such a good vibe day. And Nacho really is just a wonderful, lovely human. So anytime he’s around is a good time.”
Harry & Meghan are great collaborators: “Working with them was definitely special. I think they were amazing collaborators that brought so much energy and passion to the project as a whole. Polo is one of Prince Harry’s greatest passions. It seems that Meghan has adopted it as one of hers too, just in terms of being his partner,” Balać tells PEOPLE. “She also loves the sport, and it was really fun to talk to her about what she loves about [it]. And Harry comes at it from the athlete perspective, so it was great to have both of those perspectives to help inform how I would go about sharing this world.”
This is all really nice, but again, it would be better hearing from Harry and Meghan. Meghan should be talking to Variety or Deadline about her love of polo-tailgating. Harry and Nacho should be giving interviews side-by-side in which they hype the sport and the series. But instead, Miloš Balać is the one carrying the promotion on his back alone – he’s also given interviews to the NY Post and Variety, and the bulk of the conversation is about Harry and Meghan’s involvement in the series. I don’t know if anyone on the Archewell team reads this lil’ blog, but please convince Harry and Meghan to actually promote their Netflix projects.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Netflix.
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- Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at the USPA National Polo Center. Featuring: Nacho Figueras, Prince Harry Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at the USPA National Polo Center. Featuring: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Polo match during the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center. Featuring: Prince Harry Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke of Sussex during the awards ceremony after he played in a polo match during the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex presents the trophy to her husband, the Duke of Sussex after his team the Royal Salute Sentebale Team defeated the Grand Champions Team, in the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex presents the trophy to her husband, the Duke of Sussex after his team the Royal Salute Sentebale Team defeated the Grand Champions Team, in the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex after his team the Royal Salute Sentebale Team defeated the Grand Champions Team, in the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex presents the trophy to her husband, the Duke of Sussex after his team the Royal Salute Sentebale Team defeated the Grand Champions Team, in the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Maybe they don’t think they have to promote it.
I think they don’t do the promoting because they get allsorts of bad press from the ugly British gutter press that spills over to the US so they let someone else promote it. They don’t want to hurt the program they want people to take it for what it is and it’s all about the game if Polo and what all is involved with the game. They don’t want it to be just about them.
Agree!
I think Meghan, and to some degree Harry, is averse to active personal promotion due to the backlash that will come from the British tabloids and actually take away from or over-shadow the project itself.
Just watched the first episode and absolutely LOVE IT! 😍💕
my thoughts exactly
Spot on………………Celebitchy is wrong on this one about PR as it is not PR for the Sussexes it is about the production and POLO. If H and M did any Promos it would descend into all about them and this way you have to see the production to even get a glimpse of Meghan and Harry. Winner!
If they promote it, they become the story whether they like it or not. That will drown out the what they are trying to promote.
The Tyler Perry interview is a typical example. Instead of focusing on what Tyler is doing they wanted to know about H and M.
If they want to promote it they should do it with the polo players. Like the Dad and son. Harry could appear with them. And they do all the talking. I understand their dilema.
If I can recall, there was article that was talking about Netflix bosses not being happy because H and M are not featured. Do I believe that? No. But you can see why it’s hard for them to be front and center.
If it isn’t on their contract, they don’t have to promote it. Invictus doc was also promoted by one of the veterans appearing in the doc. It would be nice if H&M promoted these projects, but the headlines from those interviews would be anything but the project itself as we have seen in the past.
But the headlines are now about how they’re not promoting it. They’re going to be the focus of their project’s press no matter what, so they should absolutely be out there supporting it.
@Kirsten, I disagree. When Meghan or Harry gives an interview, they get quotes from them out of context and use it for weeks in order to create some outrage. “Harry/Meghan said/slammed” gets more clicks from casual haters.
But that can’t be the reason why you don’t promote the project, what about the cast doing interviews? what about paying influencers to promote ? There are so many things they could do, it is so baffling that they don’t promote their projects.
@esther, isn’t it said in this very article, someone from the show is promoting it? For Invictus too, a veteran from the games did the promotion. EP’s rarely do promotion work. If it was a polo show about Harry, of course we would expect him to promote it. He is the EP here, not the star of the show.
@Kirsten, What I have seen is they are mad that Harry didn’t include his brother William or the british royal family who are the best polo players and everyone knows the that polo is there thing.
So they are mad when Harry talks about them and they are mad when he doesn’t.
I noticed that even many M & H fans were unaware that he’d made the Invictus documentary and would comment that he should make one even though it already existed! So, yeah, they definitely need to go on the talk shows, etc. And they are so talented at that type of bantering publicity— I don’t understand why they aren’t doing it. Surely it’s not because they care how the tabloids will spin it— they publicized (brilliantly) the Oprah special and Spare.
There’s no need to promote it when they can rely on their enemies doing it for them. This topic is a desperate tactic to forced Harry into a position where he can be attacked at close quarters by his tabloid enemies. He’s not so easily manipulated. Sussex programmes already have a huge following and break all records as Netflix executives have said. They should know.
i plan on starting to watch it today, maybe tonight if I dont have a chance this afternoon.
The lack of promotion is weird – maybe they think the press promotes their projects enough? But that’s more so the british press and its always with a negative spin. Maybe Netflix is happy with the numbers even when they don’t promote something so they dont care?
We know Harry and Meghan don’t have an issue with promotion. Meghan did it for her podcast Archetypes and her children’s book The Bench and Harry did it for his memoir Spare. They didn’t do promo for their Harry and Meghan doc, Live to Lead, or Polo so I can only assume promo was not a part of their production deal with Netflix.
LOL but lets be real is it necessary? There are multiple articles from literally every continent discussing this documentary. Its frankly embarrassing for the British media how many articles there are in each of their publications. Promo is intended to raise awareness about a project which for good or for bad is never really seems necessary with Harry and Meghan.
I think last year the strike affected promotion because it was not allowed. I thought maybe there would be something with Polo.
Nacho has been posting about it on his social media so it’s not like he’s said nothing about it.
This is so funny 💕 the amount of comments about not promoting it, IS PROMOTING IT 😍 why should they bother. You would have to be living under a rock right now to not know about POLO.
@swaz – Exactly. 👆👆👆
All these people promoting the series by voting for themselves to be H-M’s new PR folks, sure. Showrunner Miloš Balać was interviewed by Variety, so why should Meghan also have to go to Variety?
I mean, my husband, who consumes an insane amount of sports media, had never heard of this show until last night when I mentioned it to him.
I still maintain there were no interviews for HOI due to the writers strike. But yeah I’m not sure why they don’t promote this one? Or at least have Nacho out there doing something? I’m going to check it out later though.
I guess, only Netflix has to be happy with how things are done. They’re the ones paying them.
Netflix is paying them for now. They have a contract renewal coming up. If Netflix doesn’t renew, my guess is this would be part of the reason why.
And your guess, is just that, a guess. If Netflix wanted promotion specifically from H&M, they would likely be speaking to them about doing so. And how do you know when their contract renews? Because tabloids say so?
SarahLee, how many Executive Producers do the promo for anything? I think people are confused about the role H&M have in this. I’m not aware that EPs do promo.
People are already talking about a season 2 and when the director was asked about it in that interview he said there is still a lot of story they could tell.
If netflix wanted this promoted they would do something about it. I’ve seen netflix trailers for it all over my FB and Twitter feed along with some of the other stuff that is coming on.
I had assumed they didn’t promote HOI as it was released during the strikes. I really don’t understand why POLO isn’t getting promoted however. Why isn’t Nacho on one of the morning shows even? Maybe something is planned for this week but its really odd. Maybe they (and Netflix) know that there is already a built in audience for this (and yes their fans will promote on their socials) but I don’t understand the business decisions behind this.
How is Nachos supposed support for Trump and MAGA still going under the radar?
@Neeve
Oh God, is that true? If so, that would explain at least some of this–a lack of willingness to appear shoulder-to-shoulder with a maggot-friend. That public display of ally ship could be severely problematic for them down the road.
Also–are they worried about a backlash? Their show about their lives and separation from the BRF was wildly successful–to the point where it is all too easy for a subsequent series to get gleefully mean and sour reviews. You just sense it, especially with this election and how its influenced public mood.
No one likes a sophomore, it seems. Shows, books, music albums.
Where was this support?
@esther on Nacho’s social media.
Either let people know WHAT social media platform he’s posting this information or stop. I can’t stand with people do this.
Bluesky, it’s all over nachos twitter
It’s NOT on his Instagram at ALL
Maybe they want the focus to be on the show rather than on themselves but you are right. The fact that they have done no promo whats so ever is insanity.
It doesn’t help that Netflix is usually quite terrible too at promoting their shows, which means that Harry and Meghan really should have taken that into their own hands.
And it doesn’t help that this show drops on a weekday.
I managed to watch the first bit and it’s a good show. It deserved the promo.
I considered maybe they didn’t want to overshadow the show by promoting it directly, or that they want a very obvious separation between their charitable work and their commercial work, but i feel like a good agency like WME would give them a better game plan than “don’t even do the bare minimum at promotion”.
Maybe they’re holding off for after the inevitable flurry of hate watching by the BM dies down? I think either way, it’s a weird move considering how much preparation we know Harry and Meghan do.
Not wanting to become the focus of this show is a fair point but I still think something in the form of promo could have been done. Maybe with the polo players themselves? They are the stars of this show after all.
Polo is an elite sport. It can’t be spun any other way even when the matches are for charity and effort is made to involve the less affluent. The treatment of the animals is also controversial. Maybe H&M don’t want to lean into the sport enough to promote the documentary. But then, why do the film in the first place? Puzzling.
Because they have to fulfill their contract obligations. I think Archewell productions is going to be about Meghan’s podcast and cooking show in the future.
I think their strategy is to minimize being too piblic and giving the press more material to constantly bash them with.
But see that won’t work because they need to sell the show to the general public.
But we don’t know what the general public’s interest is. Netflix presumably can track how many people have watched the trailer, and how many people have hit the reminder feature for the show. Also, if this is being broadcast internationally they are probably aware of the metrics behind the scenes of how many people are interested in other markets. It may be a modest hit in 10 markets and is profitable from them numbers. At the end of the day Netflix has to be satisfied, and they are the ones with all the numbers to gauge overall performance. If they are fine with the promotion, I don’t see the issue. This seems more like fans wanting Harry and Meghan to generate news about their show then the actual studio paying them being bothered.
I’m sold 😍 I guess the public is more interested in the profits made than the people that are actually financing the Series.
I always give them the benefit of the doubt but this is not a great look
I’ve started watching it with my morning coffee. I think it’s going to be good, but a lot of polo players seem to be Argentinian so they all sound like Nacho.
I had hoped for a glimpse of the Rosser brothers and/or their Work to Ride team — to show it’s not mainly players from South America or people from an elite white background.
I won’t have the time to watch it before the weekend though.
How things are promoted are usually worked out by the studio financing the project so I imagine they are happy with how they are doing it. And if Netflix is happy with the viewership returns they get they may not care. We say that the should have promoted HOI more and it got less views that the docu series did, but again less and not enough to be profitable isn’t the same. And the same way that you say that the Sussex squad tend to justify what Harry and Meghan do, I think people need to also realize that we aren’t their shareholders, so they don’t have to necessarily do the things that we think that they should do either. If the people paying for the projects are satisfied we take what they give us, or tune out. If it’s not to your liking don’t watch Polo, if what Meghan puts out for ARO isn’t to your liking don’t buy it. Sounds harsh but that is any transactional relationship with celebrities.
I agree. Sports docs on Netflix don’t really get promotion. When Meghan comes out with her series I bet there will be promo. It’s supposed to come out early next year ( with her ARO line, supposedly) A show like that is what Netflix would want promo for.
Prince Harry has done charity polo events, so I don’t understand why they couldn’t have done dinner and a screening of Polo, and all the money goes to Sentebale or another one of the charities they support.
I saw people being upset that the show wasn’t promoted and now I see that the showrunner is doing promotion and that’s still not enough. I get why they don’t want to be at forefront of the promotion for their shows. Heck we don’t see the Obamas promoting their stuff either. But I think they’re probably at the end of their contract and don’t see the need to put themselves out there for this. I don’t think they going to continue making shows other than Meghan’s show in the future. I suspect Meghan will promote it. I’m going to watch the show on the weekend.
I think this so important to mention. The Obama produce things and any promotion tends to be very low key.
I think we may end up seeing Nacho a bit more, but this isn’t the same as a movie where the actors are promoting the show. You don’t see Shonda Rhimes promoting Bridgerton, but the actors in the show.
People need to get over this whinging over everything H & M do. Not everything they do needs to be personally promoted by them.
For real, thank you! Also, why are so many comments including Meghan in their complaining about the lack of promotion for the show, when this isn’t even her project?
Because they are both listed as the executive producers. It’s not just Harry.
But the projects only got greenlit because H & M’s charisma was attached— they have no track record as producers or show runners. They aren’t worker bees, they are the glamorous creatures who add sparkle to the project by their very existence!
I saw an interview of Nacho promoting the show, and he made it clear that it is not about him or Prince Harry. I don’t remember what program it was, but Nacho would be a natural to promote it rather than Harry.
Netflix is subscription based. Works are in their library after production. Unlike theater box office tracking, streamers work off of a different model. Why anyone …including Celebitchy, thinks they know better than this multi billion dollar company on how to distribute their product is a source of amusement. Netflux knows what they are doing and where Archwell fits in their overall strategy.
To be fair to the posters here, I don’t believe that we propose to ‘know better’ than Netflix — we are just wondering why create something and then not promote it?
Polo isn’t exactly American football or the NBA where there is a built in audience for the inner workings — a large segment of people have never seen a polo game live or broadcast in its entirety, so who is this show designed for? Sussex fans might watch it, but since it isn’t about H&M, but rather has snippets, I doubt many will finish it.
I trully believe that Neflix knows all of the above but did it this way anyway 😍
The US isn’t the only country receiving Netflix.
Honestly, I think there’s not much interest in this particular elitist sport when the world’s in flames.
LOL — you summed up my previous response much more succinctly.
Like, good for Harry on producing this, but I’m in full eat the rich mode at the moment and seeing a bunch of privileged men riding on expensive horses playing a stupid game isn’t something I’m planning on taking time out for.
“Polo is cool and a difficult sport”
And? We’ve elected a monster to be president and the planet is dying, my priorities are elsewhere. I like the Sussexes, but man oh man, this dropped at a bad time.
They. Should. Have. Done. Promo.
I am a huge fan, but not doing any promo is just bonkers.
Most things on Netflix drop without being “promoted” in the way that it is being suggested the Sussexes should be doing. All this talk about promotion feels more like a desire for Sussex content rather than a fair evaluation of the project itself or their approach to their projects. They are producers. Producers typically don’t do promotion. What’s wrong with the director giving an interview. He can give his perspective on the project and on them if asked. Why the demand that it come directly from the Sussexes mouths. There is zero indication that Netflix was/is in anyway unhappy with how HOI was handled. All the promotion Meghan did for Archetypes led to more talk about her and the BRF rather than the project itself.
Agreed.
Yeah. Plenty of celebrities are producers or executive producers of docs, tv shows, films, etc and don’t do promo. They leave it to the ones that are being filmed.
I think that there are two types of people that are interested in Harry and Meghan. Those that connected with their story and tune in when they do interviews, or promote something or visit a country and when they aren’t in the news move on. And then it’s those that see them more as content producing celebrities, and want to get that drum beat of information from them about their lives all the time. Those are the ones that are always complaining about them not having an Instagram account and things like that. So the ones that want them to do more of the latter I think are always going to be unsatisfied because they seem to be operating more like the former. Not necessarily wrong to feel either way, but just like the people that want Meghan to wear brighter colors at some point you have to realize she’s just not going to do what you want her to do. There’s no point of getting your hopes up for it, and being upset when it doesn’t happen.
AMEN 😍 if you are commenting about the project you already know it exist, just watch it if you want too 😎
Thank you, THIS. Since when do Executive Producers run around doing promotion for their shows or programmes? The actors and actresses and directors usually do that.
I agree with you that the complainers are really just dying for Sussex content – not the content they produce, but information and interviews and appearances from H+M themselves. So many rota rats whose bread and butter is to write reams about them and have been regurgitating old lies these past few months are desperate for new material. That’s where this is coming from. Those people don’t want to have to practise journalism. They want easy pickings – information literally handed to them so they can splice and dice quotes and create 200 articles out of a single appearance.
At least now people are getting an education – because it is clear that many do not, or did not, understand precisely what an Executive Producer does.
Actually executive producers do promote their films & series. Brad Pitt was an executive producer in many Plan B projects & he hosted screenings for almost all of his projects. Emma Stone is an executive producer in Jesse Eissenberg’s recent film and she has promote it, not in talk shows, but she has gone to the premieres and participate in Q&As with the cast. Margot Robbie hosted screenings for many projects for Luckychaps productions where she wasn’t even involved as an actress. And the excuse that documentaries are not promoted in Netflix doesn’t cut it either. James Gay Reese the executive producer of Drive to Survive, another project of Netflix, that is a documentary with a similar vibe to what Meghan & Harry wanted to do has given many interviews to promote his projects. So it’s their right if they don’t want to promote it, but we don’t need to lie and say executive producers don’t promote when they clearly do.
Genuine question: Has Obama done any promoting for his two docuseries on Netflix? I don’t remember and didn’t pay attention when “Our National Parks” was out years ago; and by chance, found out “Our Oceans” was out last month. I knew he was not on late night talk shows, but have no idea if he did any promo for “Our Oceans” in other media. (I don’t follow news sites or entertainment media since the election, and do not have any social media account.) The Obamas might’ve done some promo for their award-winning documentary movie back when it was out & in Awards season circle?
People are not getting that Harry and Meghan are merely fulfilling their contract obligations which is putting out content. I don’t think promoting them was part of the deal and I believe the stories that the contract will end next year. Harry and Meghan got what they wanted out the deal and they’re going in a different direction which I believe is her podcast and cooking show.
I actually disagree with you here. With any movie or documentary, rarely the EP do promotion, it’s the director and actors or protagonists. I think they do the right thing by not making it about themselves. And if the interviewers only ask about them, and the director in this case is happy to respond, great. But I like that they don’t take over, they just do their jobs as EP and that’s it.
You’re right. It’s common practice that EPs are not the primaries for promoting the work.
Executive producers are usually the people behind the scenes FUNDING the project. That is not the case here. These are supposed to be projects close to H & M’s hearts but they seem entirely uninterested in them, which makes potential viewers uninterested also.
And other EP’s don’t produce things of interest to them? Your logic is lacking.
I am with Kaiser on this one, it’s work . Something they both put their names behind so they should promote it because it’s a business. They don’t have to answer any personal questions. Just sell the heck out of why everyone should watch it .
BWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Its so fucking hilarious that folks think they can stay in the penny section and tell multi-millionaires how to do their job and earn their millions. Since everyone knows better than those who are actually minding their own business, perhaps H&M should start telling gossip bloggers and assorted other trolls how to earn their pennies.
Why does everyone think they know what and how Meghan and Harry should be doing their job .
They cop enough crap from their haters as it is .
People that have never produced anything know exactly how it should be done 🤣🤣🤣
H&M are the Executive Producers–I’m unaware that that EPs do promo.
Nacho tweeted about it…but then you look at the rest of his feed and so many Elon Musk re-tweets ugh
It makes no sense that they don’t do any work to promote their projects. Their communications person needs to be fired because there’s no reason that they didn’t have a red carpet premiere, some print magazine interview and sent Nacho out on late night tv. One trailer and Nacho tweeting is not a roll out for a major production. It’s like they don’t want people to watch their products.
Do people do red carpets for Netlix originals? I think people are just dying for Harry and Meghan content. Everyone lists what THEY would like Megan and Harry to do.
Not sure it merits a whole red carpet because they have to pay for that themselves, but we definitely want more of the Sussexes.
For something like Bridgerton or the crown they do but I don’t think they do much for documentaries.
Exactly, I get that we all love H&M but there is a consistent theme in them not promoting their projects and then pple will call it a flop or what are they doing. Especially when they don’t have Social media. Yeah this is a headscratcher
Probably bc of this
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/dec/10/polo-review-prince-harry-netflix-show
Surprise surprise the British media hate so British Netflix viewers will hate it too. Now we know why Harry and Meghan didn’t promote it.;They just love to tear everything they do down. The will be full of praise for Williams year end program about earthshot.
Of course the Guardian isn’t going to give it a good review because it likes to see itself as a champion of the underdog. That review is a prime example of “reverse snobbery.” Yes, Polo is a sport for the very wealthy but, (imho) it doesn’t take away from the players being serious about their game. The reviewer was as bad as Toryboy Pierce (Daily Mail, GB News and GMB – borderline facist) in that he watched the documentary looking for reasons to dislike it rather than giving an unbiased critique. Toryboy Pierce on the other hand was bleating on about the documentary not including Prince William!
This documentary was never going to get a fair assessment from the British media but, they would give it lots of attention. With that in mind it’s my belief that Netflix and the Sussexes agreed there would be no need to spend megabucks on promotion, as the trolls would do their work for them!
Sounds like I can add “Stuart Heritage” to the list of Guardian writers like Marina Hyde that I will never read again. Can’t believe Guardian wants me to donate $ to their cause and they hire people like “Stuart Heritage” to write BS about H-M Netflix contract.
Well, if everyone is going on about how they should promote it, you know about and you’re promoting it, aren’t you?
Haven’t watched it yet but hearing it’s really good. Not sure if these types of sports shows get much promotion but would be nice if the Sussexes did more to promote it. Milos gave a very good interview. I wish they’d at least put updates and clips on the Archewell Productions website or have a social media page for that side of things. This show looks really good so hopefully it gets more hype.
Just subscribed to Netflix currently watching POLO. Interesting so far explains everything very well. Sweaty boys LOL
Diana always said it was the dullest afternoon watching a polo match and I tend to agree.
It’d be out of reach for most as a hobby. Football and tennis being more affordable.
I like H&M and it’s up to them how much promotion they do. They’d get criticised either way – accused of promoting an elitist sport when there are many in the UK struggling to heat their homes.
If they’re not going to promote their own work, well at least go back to Sunshine Sachs and let them do it, the way they did for Archetypes. Using they don’t want backlash from the British Press is a poor excuse, Netflix has a multimillion dollar contract with them and they need to produce and promote their projects or else there will be no renewing of said contract and would it really be a surprise? Their in house PR sucks, they attend no events as “producers” they do no form of networking within the industry the least they can do is promote their own work and I’m hoping they’re not looking for fans to do something they won’t or thinking b/c they are who they are they don’t need to do promotion, no one is too big for promotion. How hard could it have been to do a screening with the players and media in attendance. Any questions they don’t want to answer simply say they won’t answer and move on, at this stage 5 yrs later they should media savy.
So many people on here thinking they know Netflix’s business model better than Netflix is just bonkers.
I think it’s common sense that promotion of a new series leads to new subscriptions, which IS the Netflix business model, and why they promoted the heck out of Bridgerton worldwide this year. They don’t really care so much whether their existing subscribers watch a particular show or not since they don’t sell eyeballs to advertisers.
I think they know that doing any promoting themselves would give most people the impression that it is about them and that would take the focus away from the sport, the actual polo players and their families. The obsession with them is sometimes so intense that the focus on what they are trying to focus on is sometimes missed.
This looks like a shitshow of male privilege and not interesting.
Pay attention to how little respect there is for polo horses except as machinery to be ridden hard. So many alleged horse people just use a horse until it’s no longer needed. These horses are given great care, until they aren’t useful any more, they have no autonomy on the field as someone interested in real horsemanship, thus entire show is just bad.
This is where H and M come off as exactly like everyone else in the RF, despite being bullied by salty isle boomers, they are merely living the same life across the pond.
The women are sidelined, is is beyond stereotypical, apart from one female rider, I’m honestly surprised yet not, that M would endorse this. I would respect her making a doco that avoids accusations in the horse industry but highlighted real horsemanship and places like Skydog Sanctuary against the slaughter and care pipeline.
This show comes off like a B grade Kardasion doco showcasing a bunch of way to emotionally stunted/tantrum throwing and trophy obsessed men bored and needing to take up a real sport. Show us who all their sidekicks and real vices are because no one is buying it.
M+H don’t need to promote it, it’s obvious their affiliation is enough promo, honestly despite all the differences W+K ands H+M are alike in more ways than they will ever try to be different, stop picking a side while they are all on a private estate somewhere
I really did not like the documentary. I felt scared for the horses and I had no empathy for the people involved. It was boring as well. Polo is just like croquet, but sitting on a badly treated horse.Croquet is boring to watch too !
Couldn’t agree more