It's Superman vs. Dawson!
Dean Cain has signed on to appear as himself in ABC's new midseason comedy Apartment 23, which co-stars James Van Der Beek, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The series stars Dreama Walker as a small-town girl who moves to New York and is hustled by her nightmare of a roommate (Krysten Ritter), whose best friend is Van Der Beek, playing a fictionalized version of himself. Cain, who starred in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, will play...
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Cheers to James Van Der Beek for proving his career is no longer up a Creek.
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Despite playing the title character on The WB's Dawson's Creek, Van Der Beek has been the cast's underachiever, at least compared to Josh Jackson, Katie Holmes and Michelle Williams. But after a series of hilariously self-mocking funnyordie.com video shorts — including one that reclaimed his weeping ...
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Our top moments of the week:
11. Worst Call for Help: On the Real Housewives of New Jersey, Teresa goes over to Jacqueline's house for help writing a letter to Teresa's brother, Joe. Unfortunately, pretty much all of Jacqueline's advice falls on deaf ears, as Teresa tells her, "You really don't know ... it's between me and my brother," and then proceeds to overstay her welcome by a few hours. Don't you have your own McMansion for this sort of thing?
10. Worst Plagiarism: During Platinum Hit's song hook challenge (its version of a Top Chef quickfire), Nevin whips up a...
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No one can accuse James Van Der Beek of not having a sense of humor, especially when it comes to himself. The former Dawson's Creek star has repeatedly made fun of his earnest character Dawson Leery on Funny or Die, and he's done such a good job of it that he might end up playing a caricature of himself full-time, if the ABC pilot called Don't Trust the Bi--- in Apartment 23 gets picked up.
"We've created this alternate character that bears a passing resemblance to me, but is much funnier than I am," Van Der Beek told TV Guide Magazine at Logo's New Now Next Awards, which he hosted in Los Angeles Thursday...
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Matthew Gray Gubler is usually known as "Gube," but he had a different nickname while directing this week's Criminal Minds.
"Someone started calling me Michael Bay Gubler because there's so much action in this one," he tells TVGuide.com "I know so little about action films that it's kind of funny."
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Indeed, the actor and NYU film grad specializes in the creepy and quirky — just check out his artwork — so quirky that his crash course in action films included The Fantastic Mr. Fox. "That was my main inspiration," he says with a laugh. "And some Sherlock Holmes. I tried to study and made sure the moments of action were done as effectively and cinematically as possible. Especially for our show, which normally [features] more of a knife or a slow strangulation, we're talking flash ...
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