Jada Pinkett Smith is hopeful that her long-running Facebook Watch present, “Red Table Talk,” is not coming to an finish. Pinkett Smith; her daughter, Willow Smith; and her mom, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, have hosted the present since 2018, and the sequence has platformed some internet-breaking conversations with celebrities since then. But on April 26, information broke that Meta (Facebook’s dad or mum firm) was canceling all of its Facebook Watch originals, together with “Red Table Talk.” Deadline first reported the information.
Pinkett Smith addressed the information in an Instagram assertion on April 27. She wrote, “We are so grateful to have had such a good looking partnership with Facebook Watch and we’re sorry to see your complete group disbanded. We want everybody effectively of their new journeys to come back.”
But she was additionally clear that this is not the top of “Red Table Talk.” She wrote, “We at Red Table are in talks of discovering a brand new house and we’ll see you quickly.” It’s not clear the place the brand new house shall be. It may land at a brand new streamer, or it may shift to a unique format. “Red Table Talk” additionally had a derivative, “Red Table Talk: The Estefans,” that led to 2021, and it is attainable the unique “Red Table Talk” will shift to a podcast format as effectively.
“Red Table Talk” grew to become one thing of a phenomenon, even inspiring jokes about “bringing” somebody to the Red Table. One of “Red Table Talk”‘s greatest moments was their interview with Jordyn Woods in March 2019 after the Kardashian-Jenner household accused her of being intimate with Tristan Thompson whereas he was with Khloé Kardashian. The Smith household have additionally used the present to have intense and intimate conversations about their very own household life, together with when Pinkett Smith addressed the 2022 Oscars slap. But along with these enormous cultural moments, Pinkett Smith, Smith, and Banfield-Norris carved out a novel area for celebrities to have long-form conversations about essential points of their lives. Recent company included Hayden Panettiere, Jennette McCurdy, and Queen Latifah.
For now, we’ll have to attend to see “Red Table Talk”‘s final destiny.