International Insider: Hazza & Meg Fall Flat; Red Sea Draws Curtain; BBC & ITV Future; Buzzy Agent Deep Dive
deadline.comGood afternoon Insiders, happy Harry and Meghan-week. Sigh. It’s been a long one but it’s Max Goldbart here cutting through the noise and bringing you the royalest news and analysis of the past seven days. Trailing trouble: The majority of the British public and Twitterati appeared to find the first three episodes of shock Netflix Harry & Meghan doc just a bit of a damp squib when the loved-up couple dropped their highly-anticipated show yesterday morning.
Of more interest was the goings-on around the doc. The week started with a duo of trailers and boy were they spicy, black-and-white images overlaid with La La Land’s favourite Prince declaring “I had to do everything I could to protect my family” and other comments of that urgent ilk.
It wasn’t long before that and a subsequent trailer were being picked apart by the British media, however. Veteran Royal Commentator Robert Jobson was quick to point out that a shot supposed to illustrate press intrusion was actually taken from an accredited pool with just three journalists allowed in, while other clips/images that were supposed to show the couple being hounded by the ‘press pack’ were in fact taken from the Harry Potter premiere, Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen and even a Katie Price court appearance.
While trailers have undoubtedly been using this method since the dawn of TV time, the move left a sour taste with a British media pack that – as we heard over and over again in the documentary – are deemed no friend by the happy couple.
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