Over the past two months, Dean Cain has traveled to Nashville; Austin, Texas; the Republic of Georgia and Vietnam. This might be exhausting, even for the man who once donned Superman's cape. But for Cain, it's all in a day's work...
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Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader is ready to part with some serious milk money.Though unconfirmed by Fox, sources tell TVGuide.com that the game-show is poised to call to the front of the class its first-ever million-dollar winner — and during the Sept. 5 season premiere at that.If true, it'd kick off a run of episodes that also will feature such celeb guests as past and present 90210 resident Jennie Garth, Superman Dean Cain, supermodel Kathy Ireland, super-tonguey Gene Simmons, Star Jones and boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard.The Jeff Foxworthy-hosted 5th Grader airs Fridays at 8 pm/ET this fall. — Matt Mitovich
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Man of Steel, meet… Man of Steel? Sort of. Former Lois & Clark cape-waver Dean Cain flies back into the comic-book scene on Oct. 18 for a visit to Smallville (Thursdays, 8 pm/ET, CW). But this time around, he's leaving the heroics to Tom Welling, television's current Clark Kent.
"I'm pretty evil," the 41-year-old Cain says, laughing, of his role as Dr. Curtis Knox, a neurosurgeon who, despite working for Lex Luthor, has "sort of good intentions. He's cured many meteor-infected patients." What that means for Allison Mack's Chloe — who possesses the kryptonite-fueled ability to heal people — is one of th
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Broadway legend Ben Vereen has been tapped to guest on Grey's Anatomy this fall. In his episode, tentatively scheduled to air on Oct. 4, he'll play a burn victim. If we're lucky, a singing, dancing burn victim. (It's Ben Vereen, for crying out loud!)Find more on this Grey's news here. First Christopher Reeve, now Dean Cain is guesting on Smallville. The onetime star of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman will appear in the fall season's fourth episode as a baddy named Dr. Curtis Knox. As in knoxious. Although Steven Bochco's new TNT legal drama doesn't have a title, it's certainly packed with big names: Jane Kaczmarek, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Gloria Reuben have all signed up. Kaczmarek will play a wacky judge; Gosselaar, a public defender; and Reuben, his boss.Six Feet Under's Mathew St. Patrick has joined fellow All My Children alum Abigail Spencer in NBC's neighborhood-watch-group pilot, Backyards and Bullets.
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Question: Any news on who'll play the new editor of the "Daily Planet" on Smallville (Ausiello Report 6/4)?
Answer: I'll tell you who won't be playing him: the erstwhile Clark Kent Dean Cain. "Interestingly, we want to have Dean on the show this year, but I doubt it's going to be in this role," exec producer Al Gough told my colleague Rich Sands. "We had thought about it, but I don't think we can make that work for a number of reasons, none of which, by the way, are creative. It's scheduling, financial, things like that. But the plan is to have Dean Cain on the show this year." So who is Gough eyeing to play the "Planet" boss? "We'd love to stunt-cast it with a great person, and we're going to audition for tha
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