William Shatner overload

I love the guy on "Boston Legal." I'll stop any activity to watch an old "Star Trek" episode. Even those silly commercials with Leonard Nimoy make me smile.

But now he's gone and signed up to host ABC's "Show Me the Money," a shameless ripoff of NBC's "Deal or No Deal."

The series, which starts next month on Wednesdays at 8 p.m., will ask contestants to answer six trivia questions. After giving each answer, the contestant chooses from among 13 dancers on a stage who hold scrolls with a dollar figure to be added or subtracted to the contestant's total.

In a twist, the women will break out into various styles of dance on stage and Shatner will join them at will... I'm serious. Now we just need a trap door and Simon Cowell to complete the horror show.

I need to start reading more.