Mina Lefevre, who was head of development and programming at Meta, is leaving Facebook’s parent company. Lefevre, who was formerly EVP and head of scripted at MTV, is exiting as part of the latest round of layoffs at the Mark Zuckerberg-run company, which has seen more than 20,000 employees leave. None of the remaining FB Watch Originals, most notably Red Table Talk, are coming back for new seasons as the company is getting out of that business, shifting its focus on creating VR experiences in Meta Horizon Worlds that can also be deployed across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
Vizio, the American-based TV and sound bar brand, today announced that SmartCast users in the U.S. and Canada can now access the Facebook Watch TV app and enjoy Facebook videos […]
Allen Media Group’s digital news division — The Grio — debuts a new video series for Facebook Watch. Staying In Business features interviews and profiles of African-American business owners who reveal how they are […]
The group’s second Facebook Watch show, Field Notes, features pandemic stories from Hearst stations in 26 markets cross the U.S.
Facebook is showing a greater willingness to ax news programming that’s not working on Facebook Watch. In recent months, Facebook has been telling news publishers that it will only renew about a third of the existing news shows that it has funded for Facebook Watch.
An experimental Facebook Watch show reports on journalism while trying to reinvent it.
Exclusives
Hearst, Tegna and the ABC Stations are producing shows for Facebook’s new national platform that is looking for original news programs.
Dispatches from the Middle highlights surprising and under-reported stories from Hearst stations across the United States. It will appear in the newly launched dedicated section within Facebook Watch for news along with shows from other news organizations.
‘More in Common’ is a a new Facebook-funded, short-form show that ABC is producing for the news section of Facebook Watch. The network hopes its stories of people from different backgrounds coming together will be a viral hit.
Watch, Facebook’s high-stakes bid to build a powerhouse video hub online, will debut short-form clips from CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday afternoon and Late Late Show with James Corden on Monday. But it will not be producing original content for the platform.
