NETFLIX is making a second series of With Love Meghan – and have announced the surprise decision just days after the first season debuted.

The show dropped on the streaming giant on Tuesday and the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show was widely derided by viewers and reviewers alike.

But the huge interest in the programme, which features Meghan with cameos from husband Prince Harry, has convinced bosses to give it another outing.

The duchess posted on Instagram saying she’s “thrilled” with the decision.

Wearing a Netflix cap she was seen grinning in a short clip on her stories, with the caption: “Lettuce romaine calm… or not(!) because I’m thrilled to share that Season 2 of ‘With Love, Meghan’ is coming!”

It comes as…

• Meghan Markle’s new show, Meghan, With Love, was released on Netflix today
• The series begins with an emotional Meghan fawning over bees and honey
• In one episode, the Duchess of Sussex makes bacon and jokes: ‘My bacon brings all the boys to the yard’
• She also corrects pal Mindy Kaling calling her ‘Markle’ – insisting her surname is ‘Sussex’
• The Duchess goes onto share a touchy feely moment with Prince Harry, who appears briefly
• Meghan adds bizarre items to ‘children’s party bags’ from Manuka honey sticks to gardening tools
• In one bizarre moment, Meghan gets flustered and tells guest Alice Waters ‘I feel like you’re watching me fall in love’ while eating a turnip
• She also lets loose on a hike, dancing with a pal while out on a dog walk
• Fans slam show ‘the fakest stuff ever’ as they find identical recipes online
• Meghan channels Princess Diana again as she rocks Northwestern jumper

A TV insider said: “This may raise a few eyebrows but one thing which Netflix love is controversy – and this show certainly created alot of debate.

“Many were so scathing about the eight-part series that they thought there was no way it would get another season.

“But it seems the streamer is delighted with the chatter its created on both sides of the Atlantic this week.”

It’s not clear whether work has already started on the second series, but Netflix want it to drop later this year.

It comes after royal pros had suggested that a lot of people dislike the mum-of-two and as a result, are ‘hate watching’ her new lifestyle series.

With Love, Meghan is the second Netflix collaboration for the Sussexes, who signed a lucrative multi-million pound deal with the streaming giant back in 2020.

It comes after the Duchess of Sussex, 43, recently renamed her lifestyle brand As Ever, switching from the name American Riviera Orchard after facing trademark issues.

Not only did Meghan’s show hit the headlines for her £130,000 ‘stealth wealth’ Netflix wardrobe, but now, the eight-episode series, which showcases her cookery skills, wrapping hacks, and harvest basket making, has been described as “is in danger of being axed”.

Speaking to The Sun’s Royal Editor, Matt Wilkinson, on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show, News.com.au Royal Correspondent Bronte Coy and The Sun’s royal photographer Arthur Edwards weighed in on the series, which was released on Tuesday and has been described as ‘absolutely awful’.

Bronte said: “Looking at the context of when she and Harry signed this monster Netflix deal – which is apparently worth about £80million – but it ran for five years and at the time they signed it, it was in an era when Netflix was doing these big deals, that is no longer the case.

“There has been quite a restructure. The streaming industry looks very different now than it did back then and obviously they’ll be reviewing all of this.

“They’ll be paying very close attention to all the money they’re spending and for that reason, I think there is a very big danger, given ‘Harry & Meghan’, the show, was really the last big success the couple had with their output.

“There’s a lot riding on this series, I think a lot of people will have watched it, whether they hate Meghan or they love her – the hate watching part of it as well – there’s clearly interest, even though a lot of people have no admiration for her.

“But at the same time, that won’t carry through for a season two. The hate watching element would be season one.”

She added: “Harry and Meghan need to keep these deals going, they have a very expensive lifestyle, particularly with security and everything.

“I think it is in danger of being axed or significantly reduced.”

Not only this, but Arthur explained: “Eventually [Harry and Meghan] are going to run out of ideas and people are not going to be interested. People will lose interest.

“She seems to be attracting publicity. She gave it her best shot but it just wasn’t good enough.”

‘The whole thing was false’

Throughout the series, Meghan shared a variety of recipes, including a cooked breakfast, skillet spaghetti and a honey and lemon cake.

She also demonstrated her method for making tea by steeping bags in cold water under the sun for two to three hours, using “nice silk bags, lots of leaf tea, and just let it steep with the warmth of the sun.”

And whilst Matt recognised, “With Love, Meghan has been roasted, absolutely savaged by TV critics, Arthur chimed in: “I just think it was completely over-the-top.”

Clearly not impressed, the iconic photographer added: “Everything about it was false.

“The whole thing was false – it wasn’t even her house, it was somebody else’s house.”

Meanwhile, Arthur slammed the 33-minute episodes and remarked: “If a play on Broadway got those reviews, it would close.

“It would close in a week, there’d be no second shows. Please God there’s not another show.”

The less than complimentary reviews of Meghan’s show come just days after she gave an exclusive interview to US magazine People ahead of the show’s launch.

At the time, Meghan told People: “I appreciate everyone who gave me the grace to make mistakes and figure it out, and also to be forgiving with myself through that. It’s a learning curve.”

Not only this, but she also described how there were “tons of twists and turns – even with the name”, as she added: “I was figuring it out in real-time”.

Additionally, Meghan explained how she had found making the series “super joyful”, as she explained: “As a woman, a mum and a wife, to be able to find yourself again … is a wonderful feeling.”

She even shared how her son Archie told her: “Mama, don’t work too hard” as he was sleeping next to her in bed.

With Love, Meghan is a natural extension of The Tig, which was started in 2014 as a place to share her favourite food and travel discoveries.

Meghan announced she was shutting down the blog in 2017 as her relationship with Prince Harry, 40, progressed – ahead of their wedding in May 2018.

Speaking ahead of the show’s release, which is now available to watch on Netflix, Meghan claimed that the eight-part series had helped her to “find herself” again.

But despite her strong following on social media, she insisted she instead saw herself as a “female founder” and “entrepreneur” rather than an influencer.