Netflix, and already received an extremely low audience rating of one per cent.The new series in question is titled Queen Cleopatra, and is the second instalment of the African Queens franchise.Produced by Jada Pinkett-Smith, the new series launched on Netflix on Wednesday last week (May 10). Now, just five days since it premiered on the streaming platform, viewers have been quick to blast the show online, and given it an audience score of one per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.Queen Cleopatra follows on from the first part of the franchise — African Queens: Njinga — which also received a mostly-negative reception from viewers: 22 per cent, to be exact.While both Njinga and Queen Cleopatra have been on the receiving end of mostly poor reviews from viewers, the latter has got a noticeable negative reaction from critics too.
Jada Pinkett Smith's Red Table Talk Has Been Canceled
27.04.2023 - 19:59 / glamour.com
Red Table Talk—the co-hosted by , her daughter , and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris—has been canceled after five seasons, according to . The series, which launched on Meta's streaming service Facebook Watch in 2018, was reportedly axed amid a pivot away from original programming.
Instead, the platform plans to focus on “VR-first shows.”Reportedly, Westbrook Studios—the production company Pinkett Smith runs with her husband, Will—is already looking for a new distributor. The show found immense success on social media by occupying the grey area between daytime and late-night television, where edgier topics such as and are routinely glossed over.
That is, if they're explored or mentioned at all. “We are so grateful to have had such a beautiful partnership with Facebook Watch and we are sorry to see the entire team disband,” Pinkett Smith wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. “We wish everyone well in their new journeys to come.” This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“We at Red Table are in talks of finding a new home and we'll see you soon,” the statement concluded. Often, celebrities would appear on Red Table Talk in the aftermath of a scandal as when she was accused of cheating with Khloe Kardashian’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Tristan Thompson in 2019.
Pinkett Smith even aired her own dirty laundry on the show, including her extramarital , as well as a brief look at how “The Slap” impacted her family. By Hanna LustigBy Gabi Thorne and Sara MirandaBy Elizabeth LoganBy Emily TannenbaumMore from GlamourSee More Stories© 2023 Condé Nast. All rights reserved.
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