“Red Table Talk” got the boot after Meta unplugged Facebook Watch’s original programming.
The daytime Emmy award-winning show — hosted by Jada Pinkett-Smith, her daughter Willow Smith and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris — tackled conversations about social issues with an inter-generational perspective, which led to Pinkett-Smith exposing the dark side of her marriage with Academy Award winner Will Smith.
In 2020, the couple revealed to their 11 million Facebook followers that the “Girls Trip” actor had an “entanglement” — a relationship outside her marriage — with 30-year-old R&B singer August Alsina.
She admitted her marriage was on a downfall, and the couple briefly separated, so “I got into a different kind of entanglement with August … it was a relationship, absolutely,” she revealed to her husband in the 12-minute video.
After Alsina ended the entanglement with the 51-year-old actor, she began to repair her marriage to 54-year-old Smith, “We have gotten to that new place of unconditional love.”
The Facebook series started in 2018 and ran for five seasons before being canceled.
Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith discussed the downfall of the marriage on the “Red Table Talk.” Red Table Talk/Facebook
Pinkett Smith admits she was in an entanglement with R&B singer August Alsina. Red Table Talk/Facebook
The 51-year-old did reveal she was separated during the time she was dating the 30-year-old. Getty Images for BETEach episode featured a notable guest, such as Hayden Panettiere, Jennette McCurdy, Jordyn Woods, Bobby Brown and the cast of “A Different World.”
The talk show was one of the last to get unplugged after Mina Lefevre, head of development and programming at Meta, along with more than 20,000 employees were laid off, according to Deadline.
Jada Pinkett-Smith, her daughter Willow Smith and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris hosted the talk show. Facebook Watch
The women tackled conversations about social and cultural issues with an inter-generational perspective. Facebook WatchFacebook Watch began scrapping its original scripted programming in 2020 after canceling “Sorry For Your Loss,” starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Biel.
In more recent years, the platform started to focus on unscripted programming such as “Tom vs. Time,” “Red Table Talk” and “Steve on Watch.”
Westbrook Studios, Jada and Will Smith’s production company, is looking for a new distributor for the series.
