‘The Crown’ Halts Production Following Death Of Queen Elizabeth II

In the wake of Queen Elizabeth II’s death and King Charles III's accession to the throne, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly want to delay the release of their Netflix documentary series and the duke's memoir.  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex hope to make last-minute edits to portions of both projects that talk about Harry’s brother, Prince William, and his wife, Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, as well as the king and his wife Camilla, the queen consort, the New York Post reported.  Both the Netflix series and Harry’s memoir were set to be released by the end of the year, the newspaper reported, but will likely now be pushed until next year.  "A lot of conversations are happening," a source told the Post. "I hear that Harry and Meghan want the series to be held until next year, they want to stall.

The Crown is coming back to Netflix for its fifth season in November, and fans are ecstatic after Netflix shared a teaser of the new series. The sneak peek of The Crown's fifth series showed the breakdown of Princess Diana and now King Charles' marriage being revealed to the public.

“The Crown” is finally back. Peter Morgan’s acclaimed Netflix series chronicling the royal family returns with season 5 on Nov. 9, the streaming platform revealed during Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event. The news of its return comes just over two weeks after Queen Elizabeth II’s death at the age of 96 when production on the new episodes was briefly suspended out of respect.

is finally back. Peter Morgan’s acclaimed Netflix series chronicling the royal family returns with season 5 on Nov. 9, the streaming platform revealed during Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event.

K.J. Yossman Netflix has revealed the premiere date for “The Crown” Season 5 during its online Tudum fan event on Saturday. The dramatized series about the British Royal Family is set to return on Nov. 9 with an entirely new cast. Imelda Staunton (“Harry Potter”) takes over from Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II while Jonathan Pryce (“The Two Popes”) will play her husband, Prince Philip. Meanwhile Dominic West (“The Affair”) will play Prince Charles, Elizabeth Debicki (“Tenet”) will portray Princess Diana, Lesley Manville (“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”) joins as the Queen’s sister Princess Margaret, and Jonny Lee Miller (“Elementary”) stars as Prime Minister John Major.

The fifth season of The Crown will premiere on Netflix beginning November 9, the streamer said Saturday. The drama was always scheduled to launch on the streamer that month, but following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 there has been acute sensitivity at Netflix about how to proceed.

Queen Elizabeth II’s Sept. 8 death sent viewers flocking to Netflix’s The Crown, with Season 1 of the Peter Morgan drama returning to the streamer’s Top 10 at #7 for the week of Sept. 5 – Sept. 11, which included the day the news of the Queen’s passing broke and the three days that followed. For the week of Sept. 12 – Sept. 18, which coincided with UK’s period of national mourning, The Crown‘s first season rose to #3 with 40.8M hours viewed, with Season 2 also reentering the Top 10 at #7 with 16.7M hours viewed.

After starring as a young version of Prince Philip during the first two seasons of The Crown, Matt Smith has a unique insight into whether Queen Elizabeth II actually binged the Netflix series based on her life.

The Crown star Claire Foy has paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II. The British monarch passed away last Thursday at the age of 96, ending a reign of more than 70 years.

"The Crown" has resumed filming after the Netflix series paused production on Thursday, the day Queen Elizabeth II died at 96 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Elizabeth Debicki, the 32-year-old actress who portrays Princess Diana, was seen on a set in a small town near Barcelona, Spain dressed as the late princess.The scene is set during Diana’s trip to Bosnia in 1997 where she met with children and landmine victims. Debicki was seen in a pink button down, with black slacks and gold studded earrings, a spitting image of the late princess.  Elizabeth Debicki was seen on set of "The Crown," dressed as Princess Diana from 1997.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has sparked viewership of the first season of The Crown.

took a break in production “out of respect” for Queen Elizabeth II, but the hiatus came to an end.Following the death of the queen, writer of the Netflix show Peter Morgan told Deadline on Thursday that he expected filming would stop “out of respect” for Her Majesty.Producers confirmed to CNN that production was halted for the day Friday, Sept. 9.“As a mark of respect, filming on ‘The Crown’ was suspended today.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Not surprisingly, the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8 — ending a historic 70-year reign — spurred renewed interest in “The Crown,” the popular Netflix series that follows the monarch’s life and events during her time on the throne over multiple decades. “The Crown,” which begins in the late 1940s prior to Elizabeth’s becoming the Queen of England, will end with Season 6, taking the show into the early 2000s. Between Friday and Sunday (Sept. 9-11), the show’s viewership in the U.K. increased more than 800% compared with the previous Friday-Sunday period, according to data analytics firm Whip Media. In the U.S., viewership of “The Crown” more than quadrupled from Friday-Sunday compared with the previous week, and in France viewing jumped threefold, per Whip Media.

Maane Khatchatourian News Editor, Variety.com “The Crown” took over Variety’s Trending TV chart for the week of Sept. 5 to 11, earning more than 384,000 engagements with the Twitter crowd following Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Sept. 8.  For five seasons, “The Crown” has traced the story of the Queen, but after the world learned of her death, the Netflix show suspended production to honor her. The series is currently in the middle of shooting its sixth and (supposedly) final season. Those episodes are said to revolve around events that took place in and around Buckingham Palace in the 1990s, including Princess Diana’s death in 1997.  the crown writers right now pic.twitter.com/Ri2TQXpK3h The show’s fifth season, meanwhile, is scheduled to debut in November with a new cast. Imelda Staunton plays Queen Elizabeth, Jonathan Pryce is Prince Philip, Dominic West stars as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki is Princess Diana. 

The Crown creator Peter Morgan has revealed that production is expected to pause following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The creator and writer has confirmed that filming on season six of the Netflix historical drama, which depicts the reign of Her Majesty, will likely pause "out of respect" to the monarch following her death on Thursday. "The Crown is a love letter to her and I've nothing to add, for now, just silence and respect.

The Crown is expected to take a hiatus from shooting its sixth season out of respect for , who at the age of 96. Peter Morgan—writer, creator, and showrunner of The Crown—issued a statement on the queen’s passing and its effect on Netflix’s Emmy Award–winning series. “ is a love letter to her and I’ve nothing to add for now, just silence and respect,” wrote Morgan.