The article is an odd mix of business reporting and celebrity reporting. The decline of Westbrook can easily be explained by a sector-wide drop in streaming revenue. There might have been a blip as a result of The Slap but it only would have been temporary and the company should have bounced back.
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:34 AM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Westbrook Media, the production company started by Will and Jada Pinkett > Smith, was at one point the hottest production company in LA, producing the > only hit Facebook had in its attempt at streaming with Pinkett Smith's "Red > Table Talk," receiving good attention for Peacock's "Bel-Air," the reboot > of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" as a drama and with many other projects > planned and a projected sale to Candle Media, the company owned by former > Disney execs that had already purchased Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine > and the execrable kiddie show properties "CocoMelon" and "Blippi"--and then > came The Slap: > > > https://www.semafor.com/article/01/07/2024/the-fall-of-will-and-jadas-media-empire?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/930c7df1-7458-4c6e-99d2-cc31c2007ac1n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/930c7df1-7458-4c6e-99d2-cc31c2007ac1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGh0Ow5JxHJuEvR2WHyD56ey7pi29q9BDoN8x6AGAcpGA%40mail.gmail.com.
