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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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Is it the American Zatoichi? Maybe, maybe not, but the comedy My Blind Brother, which world premieres later this week at South By Southwest 2016 looks like a hell of a lot of fun either way. From first time writer-director Sophie Goodhart, the pic sees Adam Scott as a handsome ladies man and near perfect…

Who didn’t stop by Deadline’s Sundance Film Festival studio? Sunday reeled in the filmmakers and talent from such titles as Indignation, Love & Friendship, Suited, Captain Fantastic, Sing Street and much more. This year, we set up shop in the downstairs of The Samsung Studio, a chill-out atmosphere decked out with the…

FX has opted not to renew comedy series Married for a third season. Both Married and You’re The Worst last year were picked up for second seasons based on FX brass’ faith in the creative. But ratings have been soft, with Married‘s recently concluded second season ranking as the lowest-rated FX series so far this year…

EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Mann and Jenny Slate are in talks to join Dakota Fanning in Brain On Fire. Glassland's Gerard Barrett is directing his scripted adaptation of the Susannah Cahalan's bestselling memoir Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness, with Fanning playing the author during a terrifying and sudden descent into…

FX Networks has officially ordered a comedy pilot co-created by Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm (Obvious Child), which will be starring Jenny Slate and Ari Graynor. Robespierre will direct the pilot from the script from her and Holm, with the two executive producing along with Ravi Nandan and John Hodges of A24…