Meghan Markle’s With Love, Meghan has landed a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for outstanding lifestyle series earlier this week, giving the Netflix title an awards-branch distinction after its cancellation earlier this year. The nod sits in the Daytime Emmys lane, not the Primetime Emmys, which is why a show that drew criticism can still re-enter the conversation through a different voting body.
Markle marked the nomination with an Instagram post that read, “A huge congratulations to the amazing crew, producers and team who worked on With Love, Meghan on Netflix,” a line that puts the recognition on the production team as much as on the host. For a cancelled series, even a single nomination can keep the title commercially visible longer than its streaming run would suggest.
Daytime Emmys and The Primetime Emmys
The Daytime Emmys are the lesser-loved sibling of the main event, and that split matters here. The Primetime Emmys include shows like The Pitt and Slow Horses, while the Daytime Emmys cover work such as General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, Drew Barrymore, and Kelly Clarkson in the talk show category. Meghan Markle Leads With Love, Meghan to First Emmy Nomination
That makes the nomination less of a straight-up reversal than a category fit. Lifestyle programming lives in a separate awards track from prestige drama, so a series can be criticized, even dropped, and still register with voters who are judging a narrower field. It is a cleaner reminder that awards recognition does not always track with broad critical consensus.
From 2020 Deal to Cancellation
In 2020, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry signed a rumoured multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, and With Love, Meghan became one of the clearest outputs from that relationship. The show ran for a second season and a Christmas special before Netflix cancelled it earlier this year, while Netflix still holds a first-look deal with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Archewell Productions.
The title’s profile had already been undercut by the reviews. Katie Rosseinsky called it “sickly sweet and a bit exhausting,” and Helen Coffey described the experience as akin to being “gaslit by a multimillionaire insisting that constructing homemade necklaces or flower arrangements is a cinch.” That kind of criticism did not stop the series from staying in circulation, but it did leave the nomination reading as a selective awards-room judgment rather than a broad seal of approval.
Netflix, Montecito, and the numbers
The Independent reported that season two ranked as Netflix’s 1,124th most-watched show between July and December 2025, a placement that is far from breakout territory. The series was filmed in a farmhouse a few miles down the road from Markle’s Santa Barbara home, which kept the format tightly tied to her own brand of domestic lifestyle storytelling. Harry and Meghan visit King Charles at Highgrove House after four years
That ranking helps explain why the Emmy notice stands out: the series did not need to be a streaming hit to become awards-eligible inside a smaller lane. The practical takeaway for Meghan is simple — the cancellation did not end the title’s awards life, and the nomination gives her Netflix-era lifestyle project another round of industry visibility even after the platform moved on.
Markle’s celebration, the show’s cancellation, and the Daytime Emmy Award nod now sit in the same frame. For anyone tracking whether Netflix’s Sussex partnership still has value, the answer is that the production brand is not dead; it just shifted from audience scale to awards credibility.
