Lee Majors has got game. Quite literally. The Six Million Dollar Man has been drafted as the new coach of the Sabers football team on the CW's The Game. Insiders report that Majors has at least a three-episode arc that will start Oct. 1. His character will really shake things up for the team during a season that will see one star player turn to steroids and another get caught up in a media controversy. In other Game news, Greek's Scott Michael Foster will pop in on Oct. 22 as Kelly's slacker little brother who comes to couch it at her place after being released from rehab. Reporting by Rochell D. ThomasMore TVGuide.com casting news: Exclusive: Sopranos' Edie Falco Gets a Piece of 30 Rock, Exclusive Friday Night Lights, Trace Casting Scoops, Exclusive: AS-P Casts a VIP on Jezebel James, CBS' Randy Men Woo ER's Wen, Janeane Garofalo
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OK, now this sounds funny: Per the Hollywood Reporter, in the Fox pilot Me & Lee?, Jamie Kennedy will play a guy whose aches and pains are are cured when he undergoes "bionic" back surgery in the basement of Six Million Dollar Man star Lee Majors' Bev Hills mansion. According to the plot, Farrah's ex who'll play himself built a secret lab down there after his series work left him fixated on bionics. In other casting news, Tom Wilkinson and David Morse have been added to the ensemble cast of HBO's John Adams miniseries, in which Paul Giamatti plays the second U.S. prez. Wilkinson will play ol' Ben Franklin; Morse, George Washington.
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