The Duchess of Sussex’s first solo hosting project for Netflix has clinched a top spot on the charts
Meghan Markle‘s lifestyle series With Love, Meghan premiered on Netflix last week, and the viewership numbers are in.
As of March 12, the Duchess of Sussex’s show ranked tenth on Netflix’s global Top 10 Shows Overview list. According to the streamer, With Love, Meghan has amassed 2.6 million views and 12.6 million hours watched since its debut on Tuesday, March 4.
More specifically, With Love, Meghan ranks seventh on Netflix’s Top 10 Shows chart in the United Kingdom and tenth on the platform’s Top 10 list in the United States.
Season two of With Love, Meghan has already been filmed and will hit Netflix queues this fall. Michael Steed returned as director for the second season, as the first season of the Duchess of Sussex’s show premiered at number six on Netflix’s U.S. Top 10.
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Meghan, 43, is in good company on the charts as her friend and With Love guest Mindy Kaling also has something to celebrate. Kaling’s basketball comedy Running Point, starring Kate Hudson, is ranked number one on both the global and U.S. lists. The series premiered on Feb. 27 and imagines Hudson as an overlooked executive who’s unexpectedly named president of her family’s sports franchise.
Kaling, 45, is one of several old friends who stepped in front of the camera with Meghan for the upbeat series, where the Duchess of Sussex shares her personal passions for cooking, creating and entertaining with her biggest audience yet. She also forged new friendships with chef Roy Choi, farm-to-table pioneer Alice Waters and more in the eight-episode show, which PEOPLE exclusively revealed will have a second season.
In her most intimate interview in years, Meghan tells PEOPLE in this week’s exclusive cover story that it’s been a joy to get back into her creative groove.
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“When your children get to a certain age — when you’re not just playing in the sandbox with them but almost playing in your own sandbox again — it’s super joyful,” the Duchess of Sussex says. “As a woman, a mom and a wife, to be able to find yourself again — in a way that was always present but that you maybe couldn’t put as much attention on as you now can when your kids are a little bit older — is a wonderful feeling.”
Meghan and Prince Harry are parents to young son Prince Archie, 5 and daughter Princess Lilibet, 3, and she says that her husband has been happy to see her back in her element through producing the Netflix series and launching her lifestyle brand, As ever.
“My husband met me when I had The Tig, and I see this spark in his eye when he sees me doing the thing that I was doing when he first met me,” she says, referring to the original lifestyle blog she ran from 2014 to 2017.
“It’s almost like a honeymoon period again,” she adds, “because it’s exactly how it was in the beginning when he’d watch me scribbling away, writing newsletters, fine-tuning edits and just really being in the details of it. I think he loves watching as much as I love doing that creative process. It’s just been fun. This is who I’ve always been.”
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The Duchess of Sussex served as both host and executive producer for With Love, Meghan, which was filmed in Montecito where she lives with her family.
Harry, Archie and Lili visited her on set during filming, where a crew member tells PEOPLE that the Duke of Sussex was so supportive of Meghan’s moment.
“Whenever Harry visited set, he was always super polite and friendly, but it was clear he wanted this to be Meghan’s moment to shine,” the crew member says.
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With Love, Meghan is the fifth project from the multiyear deal the Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed with Netflix in 2020 for a reported $100 million. It was produced in part by the couple’s Archewell Productions company, which also released the docuseries Harry & Meghan.
Part one of the candid series set records as the streamer’s biggest documentary debut ever when it premiered in December 2022.
