Big Mouth Writer Ayo Edebiri Replaces Jenny Slate as Missy

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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterRange Media Partners, the splashy new management venture led by a host of former agents from the big four Hollywood talent shops, has set up a music division.The group has tapped Matt Graham, the founder and president of L.A.-based BRND MGMT, to run the unit with his partner Jack Minihan.

Things seem to be going pretty well for Mattson Tomlin over the past couple of years. Not only is he celebrating the recent release of the Netflix action feature, “Project Power,” which he wrote, but he’s also basking in the adoration from DC fans after “The Batman” teaser trailer was released and people instantly fell in love with what he and director Matt Reeves have cooked up.

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.

Missy Elliott has shared an incredible fan-made video that pays tribute to her 1997 hit ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’.The song, which samples Ann Peebles’ 1973 single ‘I Can’t Stand The Rain’, was produced by Timbaland and appeared on her groundbreaking debut album ‘Supa Dupa Fly’, which also spawned the hits ‘Sock It 2 Me’ and ‘Beep Me 911’.Even bigger than the song itself, the Hype Williams-directed video took on cult status thanks mostly to Missy’s leather blow up suit, which resembles an

Actress and comedian Ayo Edebiri has been announced as Jenny Slate’s replacement on Netflix animated comedy Big Mouth.

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

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.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVTwo months after Jenny Slate announced she would no longer voice the character of Missy on “Big Mouth,” the Netflix animated puberty comedy has found her replacement: writer, producer, comedian and actor Ayo Edebiri.“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,” Edebiri tells Variety.