When they’re not out eating people’s brains, zombies will soon be found on Showcase.ca, where they star in Woke Up Dead, a new web-only comedy vehicle for Napoleon Dynamite‘s Jon Heder.
The new series of five-minute episodes will appear on the Showcase website starting Feb. 1 and will run three times a week until the end of March. There will be 22 episodes in total.
Targeting 25- to 54-year-olds, the series follows Heder’s character Drex, who wakes up one day to find himself transforming into a zombie. He discovers that being dead is not so bad, as his boring job and stalled love life suddenly heat up.
The web series will be supported with on-air promotion, created in house by Canwest, on Showcase. Sponsorship opportunities are still available, which would include branding on both online and on-air advertising, a spokesperson for the network tells MiC.
‘Woke Up Dead is a perfect fit for Showcase.ca,’ Chris Harris, director, online content, Canwest Broadcasting, said in a release. ‘It’s hilarious, outrageous and it complements the existing line-up of top-notch original video content available on our site.’
Woke up Dead first appeared on Crackle, a US-based, Sony-owned site.
