Netflix is exploring another team-up with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Productions on a series about polo.
After working with the couple on the 2024 docuseries Polo, the streamer is developing a scripted drama revolving around the sport, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The series is being produced by Archewell and the company from Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, Fake Empire. The former royals are set to executive produce.
The drama, which is being framed as a story about the rivalry between two teams in the tony “horse town” of Wellington, Florida, is penned by Warrior and Monarch writer Francisca X. Hu. Deadline was the first to report the project.
Still, the story arrived after the streamer downgraded its deal with the pair from an overall deal to a first-look deal and exited Markle’s lifestyle brand As Ever as a business partner.
At a press event on Wednesday, Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria pushed back on a story in Variety alleging a “falling out” between the couple and the streaming giant. “I would say don’t believe whatever you read,” she said. “We still have a relationship with them, we have movies in development with them, we have an amazing doc with them, they have things in development on the TV and film side.”
The announcement, then, is timely for Archewell. The couple’s last polo-themed project with Netflix, Polo, which premiered on Dec. 10, 2024, did not blow ratings out of the water when it was first released. According to Netflix’s engagement reports for the second half of 2024 and first half of 2025, Polo earned just 1.1 million views and 4.5 million hours viewed during that period.
