JC? CK?

Comedy Central has announced that it's developing a series called "JC" -- a half-hour animated show about a dude named Jesus "JC" Christ who wants to escape his dad's (aka God) considerable shadow to chill in New York as a regular guy.

Things have changed on earth over the last 2,000 years and JC quickly discovers that he's a fish (and possibly a few loaves of bread) out of water. He gets little sympathy from a "powerful but apathetic" God, who prefers playing video games to listening to junior blabbering about life in the city.

The potential series is being described as a "playful take on religion and society with a sprinkle of dumb."

The announcement comes less than a month after Comedy Central's controversial decision to censor an animated image of the Prophet Mohammed during an episode of "South Park," a series that includes recurring characters God and Jesus, the host of a public access TV show.

Comedy Central isn't the only network that has broadcast an animated Jesus, though.

In 1997, NBC's "SNL" featured a "Saturday TV Fun House" segment in which the Son of God tried to fix everything wrong about the commercialization of Christmas.

Also in development is the animated series "Supermax," where bold- face named inmates like Sammy "Bull" Gravano, shoe bomber Richard Reid and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski learn about life and love while living out their days in a Colorado super maximum security prison.