Aubrey Plaza faces career blow amid pregnancy as her TV show is cancelled: 'Very disappointing'

Aubrey Plaza has suffered a shocking blow as it was revealed that her animated Prime Video series Kevin has been cancelled after just one season.

The pregnant actress, 41, confirmed the 'very disappointing' news on Saturday in a statement posted to Instagram.

Plaza co-created Kevin the series with her ex-boyfriend Joe Wengert.

Kevin, which premiered in April, is focused around Plaza and Wengert's real-life rescue cat of the same name, who is voiced by Jason Schwartzman.

'Amazon Prime is not picking up Kevin for another season. Very disappointing since we were just getting going,' Plaza began.

'I want to say thank you to all the fans that watched our show and all of the incredible cast and crew that worked so hard to make this dream come alive…'

Plaza then reflected on her working on the hit series Parks & Recreation and how NBC, unlike Prime Video, 'believed' in the show despite it's poor early ratings.

'I remember on the early days of Parks & Rec when we all thought we would be cancelled because our ratings weren’t great. Our numbers. But we had some special humans over at NBC that believed in the show and let us grow and let audiences fall in love with our characters.

'I was hoping for this for Kevin but sadly we are living in a different time in our industry. I hope the machines won’t ruin everything.

'Maybe Kevin will find a new owner someday. Love you all very much. Meow,' Plaza concluded.

Along with her announcement, she posted a still from the animated series, a photo from the April red carpet premiere and a group photo with the cast and crew, which showed her flipping off the camera.  

Plaza's shock show cancellation comes just two months after it emerged in April that the actress is expecting her first baby by Girls actor Christopher Abbott, 40, whom she has been dating since last year.

And earlier this month, Plaza jokingly revealed which of her celebrity friends she wants in delivery room with her.

While at the premiere of her film The Accompanist on June 4, Plaza quipped to a red carpet interviewer that her co-star Susan Sarandon would be her pick to help her go through a 'home birth,' via Entertainment Tonight. 

The subject arose because Plaza recently joked that she wanted either Seth Meyers or Henry Winkler to help her deliver her baby.

She noted that, back when they were both starring on Parks and Recreation, Winkler's character had assisted her character in giving birth - an experience that Meyers cracked was a 'dress rehearsal.'

Plaza deadpanned to Meyers that she 'may need you to pull it out,' during an appearance on his talk-show Late Night with Seth Meyers.

When the gag was brought up to her at the premiere of The Accompanist, Plaza was asked whom else she would add to her delivery room entourage.

'Maybe Susan? I feel like Susan would do a really good home birth. She already asked me on the red carpet if I have a doula. I'm like, she's ready, ready to go,' said Plaza.

'I've got 'em all lined up. I've got Patti LuPone, I've got Sandra Bernhard, I've got all the New York ladies just ready to catch the baby when it comes out,' she vamped.

Plaza also addressed the tempestuous two years leading up to her pregnancy announcement this April, which made waves online for having come 15 months after the suicide of her estranged husband Jeff Baena.

Baena and Plaza separated in September 2024 and he was found dead at their Los Angeles home the following January, having hanged himself at the age of 47.

'It’s been a journey, the last couple years,' Plaza said Wednesday, adding that her impending motherhood 'feels like such a blessing, and I’m just going with it.'

Plaza and Baena struck up their romance in 2011 and married in 2021 in their backyard, a move she confirmed by calling him her 'darling husband' on Instagram.

Seven months after his suicide, she described the bereavement as a 'giant ocean of awfulness' and a 'daily struggle,' on the podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler.

'Sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just, like, be in it. Then sometimes I just look at it, and sometimes I try to get away from it. But it's always there,' she reflected .

'Overall, I’m here and I’m functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I’m OK, but it’s like a daily struggle, obviously.'

Plaza and Abbott kept a veil of privacy largely drawn over their romance, though they did appear together in public shortly after her pregnancy announcement in April.

She was at his side at an opening night afterparty that month for his Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf.

Abbott and Plaza have a professional association stretching back years, beginning when they co-starred in the 2020 movie Black Bear.

From October 2023 through January 2024, they also acted together in an off-Broadway revival of the 1980s play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, written by John Patrick Shanley, whose work includes Doubt and Moonstruck.