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Jonathan Katz Goes on 'Death Row Diet'

A crowdfunding campaign is started to fund an animated comedy series starring comedian Jonathan Katz, best known for playing the title character on TV's Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.

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A crowdfunding campaign has been started to fund an animated comedy series starring comedian Jonathan Katz. Katz is best known for playing the title character on TV's Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, a role for which he won an Emmy.

Jonathan and animator Mike Salva made an animated short called Death Row Diet. In it, Jonathan plays a man on death row and Weight Watchers, where he consults with his lawyer (played by Tom Leopold). The cartoon was a big hit at film festivals and won a lot of awards, including a television pilot award from the New York Television Festival.

Now Death Row Diet is being expanded into an animated series about the main character's life in prison. A number of scripts have been written, and they were ready to begin recording the dialogue, when their funding source for the project backed out. This put the production of Death Row Diet on hold indefinitely.

The creators immediately began planning a Kickstarter campaign to fund the series. They are offering rewards to backers, including a “special thanks” listing in the credits, an “associate producer” credit, a speaking part in the cartoon, DVD copies of Death Row Diet autographed by Jonathan Katz… and having the director & a voice actor come to your house to clean your bathroom.

The campaign runs until July 11, 2013. For more details, visit www.DeathRowDiet.com, or follow Death Row Diet on Facebook and Twitter.

Watch the original Death Row Diet short, below:

Source: Project Meatball

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Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.