Jenny Slate’s replacement on Netflix animated comedy Big Mouth revealed

Maya Rudolph is real. The former star won her first-ever Emmy award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for voicing Connie the Hormone Monstress on Netflix's acclaimed animated series, .The Television Academy accepted the Emmy on Rudolph's behalf.Rudolph was Emmy nominated three times over this year, including twice in the Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on and her portrayal of presidential hopeful-turned-Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom spoke on Wednesday about the state of the state’s myriad emergencies, including the coronavirus pandemic and the historic fires burning over much of the state.But Newsom began with a more macro disaster, emphasizing that, “Average temperatures in the summer months have increased 3 degrees” over the past few decades.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorCameras are rolling again on the third season of Netflix’s British teen comedy-drama Sex Education following the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. Netflix announced production had resumed in a video post Wednesday on Twitter.

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBrian Lesser is back to help advertising, media and entertainment companies – among others – try to gain  control of the reams of consumer data quickly being generated by Hollywood’s streaming wars.Lesser stepped away from leading AT&T’s Xandr just short of six months ago, as the telecom giant decided to combine the ad-tech unit with its large WarnerMedia entertainment operation.

Despite its legacy as a sci-fi, horror, and mystery show, “The X-Files” always knew how to find the humor in its supernatural cases better than plenty of actual TV comedies from the early ’90s.

Peter White Television EditorThe X-Files is getting its own animated comedy spin-off.Fox is developing The X-Files: Albuquerque from Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko, writers of Comedy Central’s Brickleberry.The new iteration is an animated series about an office full of misfit agents who investigate the X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous or downright dopey for Mulder & Scully to bother with.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAn animated “X-Files” comedy series is in the works at Fox, Variety has confirmed.The project is currently titled “The X-Files: Albuquerque.” It has received a script and presentation commitment at the broadcaster. The show would revolve around an office full of misfit agents who investigate X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous or downright dopey for Mulder and Scully to bother with.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Nick Robinson is set as the male lead opposite Margaret Qualley in Maid, Netflix’s dramedy series from writer Molly Smith Metzler; John Wells Productions, Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.Written by Metzler, Maid is inspired by Stephanie Land’s bestselling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.

Slate vacated the voice role in June amid a cultural reckoning. The character of Missy is biracial. Edebiri will make her debut in the penultimate episode of season 4, which premieres this fall, and will continue to voice the character for future seasons.

Nick Kroll is making some changes to the “Big Mouth” cast.

Big Mouth has cast Ayo Edebiri to voice Missy, replacing Jenny Slate.The comedy writer and performer will first join the show in the penultimate episode of season four, taking over from Slate who voiced the character since the show’s inception.On her kinship with the character, Edibiri told Variety, “I was definitely a very uncomfortable child, so I think the show speaks to that and a lot of those feelings, which still resonate with me as an adult.“I’m back home in my childhood bedroom right now

Big Mouth has found its new Missy.

Netflix‘s Big Mouth has found its new Missy.

Variety. “I’m back home in my childhood bedroom right now and on my bookshelf in between ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ is Bill Clinton’s autobiography and Nelson Mandela’s autobiography and a translation of ‘The Iliad’ in Latin.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix 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.