The Duchess of Sussex and her co-stars are celebrating a year-long reign of the legal drama as American TV’s most-watched streaming show.
Meghan Markle reportedly earned $50,000 per episode during her seven years on Suits.
Meghan Markle and her Suits co-stars are celebrating a year-long reign…..as American TV’s most-watched streaming show.
New figures reveal US viewers are still downloading more than a billion minutes every week of the legal drama that was snapped-up by Netflix and Peacock in July last year.
The runaway success of the re-born series, which was dropped by broadcast network NBC in 2019 after eight seasons, has led to a massive and unexpected boost in royalty payments, known as “residuals,” for Suits’ entire cast.
And both streaming giants have confirmed that “principal performers” including Meghan and former co-stars Patrick J. Adams, Gina Torres and Gabriel Macht, are on a higher residual pay scale than other actors in the show.
Their exact remunerations – based on viewing figures and a percentage of their original earnings from NBC – have not been made public. But a senior production source confirmed: “They amount to the sort of bonuses most actors can only dream of.”
Meghan reportedly earned $50,000 per episode during her seven years on the show and appeared in 108 episodes out of 134 before leaving to marry Prince Harry.
The source added: “She might be in a different financial league now, but I’m sure she’s as delighted as her cast mates with the unexpected boost. Her character Rachel Zane has become a cult figure again with a new, younger audience. And, like everyone else involved, she must be thrilled that the Suits revival is still going strong after 12 months.”
The show’s popularity skyrocketed immediately on its Netflix and Peacock debuts last July and it eventually became the most-watched download show of 2023 with a total of 57.7 billion minutes viewed.
Last week, according to new figures for the second week of July this year, Suits was still riding high in third place of the overall streaming ratings with 1.07 billion minutes watched. It was beaten only by Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon on HBO Max and hugely popular kids’ show Bluey on Disney+.
Meanwhile, NBC has greenlit a spin-off titled Suits: LA, written by original series creator Aaron Korsh – a friend of Meghan’s – that will debut early next year, with insiders already saying they are hoping the Duchess of Sussex will make a surprise guest appearance.
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