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...KATZ: PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST (COMEDY CENTRAL) Pay no mind to all those imitation Friends. This witty, laconic cartoon comedy, in which a pensive analyst deals with a floundering son and a host of weirdly neurotic patients, is the year's best new sitcom...
DIED. ROXIE ROKER, 66, actress; in Los Angeles. For over a decade, Roker played the blunter half of an interracial couple--one of TV's first--on the sitcom The Jeffersons...
Comedy Central's latest find is Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.). The animated sitcom debuted with six episodes last summer and became the channel's second highest-rated show (behind Politically Incorrect). Now it has returned for a 13-week run, providing an imaginative departure from the sea of indistinguishable sitcoms on the networks this fall...
...upper-middle-class urban life, Dr. Katz creates its own absurd version of it. The show revolves around Dr. Katz (his voice belongs to creator and writer Jonathan Katz), a divorced psychoanalyst saddled with a 23-year-old son who still lives at home. Unlike almost every other new sitcom on TV, Dr. Katz does not rely on fast and furious quips filled with trendy pop-cultural references. Instead it features surreal, laconic riffs, many of them between the doctor and his son Ben (who, after seeing himself mentioned in the newspaper, laments that he ought to change his name...
DAVID LETTERMAN Oscar jilts him for Whoopi; CBS pulls his Bonnie Hunt sitcom...