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EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Slate is set to host Sex Plants, a travel docuseries for Quibi. She also will executive produce alongside Richard Perello and Stacey Offman, and Jigsaw Productions will produce. The program for the bite-sized streaming service will see the former Big Mouth star speak with researchers and botanical…

Netflix has cast Jenny Slate’s replacement as Missy on its animated series Big Mouth, Deadline has confirmed. The series’ co-creator, executive producer and star Nick Kroll said in June that the show would recast the voice role of Missy, a biracial character on the Netflix animated series, with a black actress. The…

Big Mouth co-creator, executive producer and star Nick Kroll said Wednesday that the show will recast the voice role of Missy, a biracial character on the Netflix animated series, with a black actress. The role had been voiced by Jenny Slate for the show’s first three seasons. “We made a mistake, took our privilege…

Jenny Slate has a date with Netflix. The actress and comedian’s first original comedy special for the streamer, titled Jenny Slate: Stage Fright, is set to drop next month. The special will give viewers an inside look at the Saturday Night Live alum’s world, including clips of her childhood and interviews with her…

Jenny Slate has a date with Netflix. The actress and comedian’s first original comedy special for the streamer, titled Jenny Slate: Stage Fright, is set to drop next month. The special will give viewers an inside look at the Saturday Night Live alum’s world, including clips of her childhood and interviews with her…

Jenny Slate has been set as host of the 23rd annual Webby Awards, which honor the year’s best of the Internet from websites and video to advertising, media and public relations, apps, mobile, voice, social, podcasts and games. The ceremony is May 13 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Nominees for this year’s edition…

When Rebecca Dinerstein set out on a solo journey to the Arctic, she intended only to write a book of poems. Living “completely alone, on an island in the Norwegian Sea,” she soon found that she needed to fill her time, so she turned to prose, writing the book that became The Sunlit Night. A Sundance drama from…

Actress Jenny Slate is about to step into a pair of iconic tights. The Zootopia actress is lending her voice to Disney Junior’s revival of Muppet Babies as Miss Nanny. Slate will be taking the Miss Nanny torch from iconic Leave it to Beaver matriarch Barbara Billingsley, who voiced the character in the original…

Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West, Legion), Jenny Slate (Zootopia), Craig Robinson (Ghosted), Rob Riggle, and Stephen Merchant have joined the previously announced Miles Teller to lead the voice cast in the animated feature The Ark and the Aardvark. The film is currently in production being directed by Kung Fu Panda‘s…

Editors Note: The video contains plot details from Brian Shoaf’s Tribeca-premiering Aardvark. In Aardvark—a beautifully unusual, mysterious and tonally intricate feature debut from director Brian Shoaf—we see a side of actors Jenny Slate and Zachary Quinto that we haven’t seen before. A versatile actress, comedian and…

Filmmaker Gillian Robespierre reteams with her Obvious Child muse Jenny Slate on her sophomore directorial Landline, a divorce comedy set in New York City 1995 which “flips the narrative on its ass and has the family grow together rather than apart,” says the director. Landline follows the two Jacobs sisters whose…

Amazon has acquired U.S. rights to Landline for $3 million. Pic’s co-written by and directed by Gillian Robespierre, who wrote it with Elisabeth Holm. Jenny Slate, Edie Falco, John Turturro, Abby Quinn, Jay Duplass and Finn Wittrock star. Film is produced by Gigi Pritzker and her OddLot banner with Route One. Russell…