Former "Lois & Clark" star Teri Hatcher returns to TV to star in "Say Uncle" with co-star Ken Olin, Variety reports.

Hatcher will play the two-faced co-anchor of a news show with Olin, a gay man who is suddenly forced to raise two teenaged kids.

The actress, who also appeared in the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" and recently starred in a touring production of "Cabaret," will next be seen on the big screen in "Spy Kids."

In other TV casting news, former "Melrose Place" star Rob Estes is set to topline NBC's "Tikiville," while Breckin Meyer, a cast member of the upcoming "Josie And The Pussycats," is shooting an NBC pilot entitled "Inside Schwartz," Variety said.

Kimberly Williams, best known for her performance in "Father Of The Bride," is joining the cast of an as-yet-untitled Jim Belushi pilot, and "Welcome To New York's Jim Gaffigan is joining the cast of Ellen DeGeneres' projected new series, "Ellen Again," Variety said.

HOLLYWOOD -- Spies of all sizes had best beware, Teri Hatcher is back in business.

In the 19th Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies, Hatcher played Paris Carver, a seductive siren and the wife of a powerful, corrupt media mogul.

In the family spy adventure Spy Kids which opens Friday, Hatcher plays Mrs. Gradenko, a double-crossing, back-stabbing baddie if ever there was one.

"Of course, it's a bit of an inside joke. Teri is part of the Bond legacy and Spy Kids is a spoof of the Bond films," explains Robert Rodriguez, who conceived, wrote and directed Spy Kids.

Hatcher was flattered to be asked to play her villainous cameo in Spy Kids but insists: "I never thought of myself as a Bond girl. Michelle Yeoh was the Bond girl in Tomorrow Never Dies. I got killed too early to be a real Bond girl."

She quickly sidesteps any questions about her tempestuous relationship with Pierce Brosnan on the set of Tomorrow Never Dies. When he was promoting Tomorrow, Brosnan quipped: "I'm sure Teri's mother loves her," and then added "having become a mother herself, I hope she's learned some humanity."

Hatcher went directly into Tomorrow Never Dies after a successful run as Lois Lane in the popular TV series Lois & Clark: The Adventures of Superman. All Hatcher will offer in her defence, or as an explanation, is: "I was four months pregnant when I did Tomorrow Never Dies. I had been contracted before I became pregnant and was eager to fulfil my responsibilities."

Hatcher is married to actor Jon Tenny, one of the stars of the Laura Linney film You Can Count on Me.

"I actually have two husbands," jokes Hatcher, referring to the Radio Shack commercials she does with Howie Long.

Hatcher says there are no plans in the works for her to reunite with her Lois & Clark co-star, Dean Cain, for any Superman TV movies.

"I'll be forever grateful for Lois Lane but I don't want to revisit her. I don't mind that people still think of me as Lois. I take it as a compliment. It just means I have to work harder to prove I can do much more than Lois, which I think I proved with Cabaret."

For nine months last year, Hatcher played Sally Bowles in the Broadway production of Cabaret. "I hired a singing coach and then flew myself to New York for the audition. I never really believed I would get the role but I knew I had to try. It meant that much to me."

Before critics chose Calista Flockhart as the poster woman for anorexia, Hatcher was the TV personality who was criticized for being too svelte. "Thin is not something I've ever thought about. I've never had to work on it. I'm just very lucky. It's all genetic."

Get down and get dirty for the catfight of the century.

In a wicked fight sequence in the new thriller 2 Days In The Valley, American TV siren Teri Hatcher and South African supermodel Charlize Theron tear each other up with such ferocity that audiences gasp, jeer and cheer.

Which leaves the amiable Hatcher -- sensual Lois Lane to superhunk Dean Cain's Superman in the ABC-TV cult hit Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman -- feeling bewildered. And bemused.

"It was really passionate and intense and physical," she says of ripping into Theron in the movie, which opens here Friday. "But, to me, it was just another scene."

It is, however, a critical scene in the best movie the 31-year-old Hatcher has managed to hook since her notorious breast episode on Seinfeld catapulted her into the public eye -- "they're real and they're spec-tac-ular!" -- and Lois And Clark made her a star.

And a sex symbol. Shots of a nude Hatcher folded into Superman's cape have been downloaded so many times on the internet that Hatcher is now called the Queen of Cyberspace. Earlier this year in the movie Heaven's Prisoners, Hatcher made her entrance facing the camera totally nude. Sex sells.

In 2 Days In The Valley, Hatcher plays a former U.S. Olympic ski champ who wakes up one morning splattered in her husband's blood. She was drugged, he was murdered.

What happens next is just one cog in the complex wheel that turns writer-director John Herzfeld's comedy-spiced drama about 11 people whose lives, and deaths, intersect over two days in the San Fernando Valley of California.

The vicious fight scene, and Hatcher's manipulative character, belie any notions that the actress is merely a one-note wonder. The testosterone flows. Both men and women respond to the scene. "Maybe it's just the idea of women getting ahold of their male side," Hatcher speculates.

"They're expressing a very untamed aggression that, in general, women put away. Maybe that's what's so thrilling and exciting about that scene.

"But the hard thing for me in that fight was smashing her (Theron) in the head with that vase. And I remember saying: 'Can't she smash me with the vase?' Because I'd much rather be smashed than smash. But that's me -- Teri -- not being comfortable with that kind of aggression.

"Of course, I had to find a way of getting rid of that feeling because Becky (her character in 2 Days) is completely comfortable with that as an athlete." Hatcher thinks female athletes express their male side in physical ways. "Although I work out," she says of her own physique, "I'm much more feminine."

Hatcher says she had no qualms about playing "a tough cookie" in 2 Days, even though it is the only movie she was able to shoot this year during her two-month break from the rigorous schedule for Lois And Clark.

"You think: 'I want to be a part of this!' Whatever part. I even want to walk by in the background. I was real happy to be able to do something like that. It's so much of my sensibility. It's a movie I would like to do and see even if I wasn't in it!"

TORONTO -- There's nothing frail and demure about Teri Hatcher.

She's as tough and savvy as Lois Lane, the intrepid journalist she plays on ABC's hit series Lois & Clark.

She fields questions about her brazen celluloid nude scenes, alleged anorexia and Internet fan club with complete candor.

"I'm not anorexic and never have been. If it had ever been a problem for me I would be completely forthright so I could help others through the problem," says Hatcher.

About her nude scene in the Alec Baldwin/Eric Roberts' thriller Heaven's Prisoners, Hatcher says she "has no hangups about nudity. If there is an integral, honest reason for the nudity, I'll do it.

"I'm not so free about nudity that I want to run around in the buff all the time, especially on film."

Hatcher declined to appear in the nude in the comic thriller 2 Days In The Valley which opens Friday. She plays an Olympic skier whose husband (Peter Horton) is murdered by hitmen James Spader and Danny Aiello.

"If my character had been sleeping in the nude and woke up to find her husband's corpse beside her, she would never rush about covering herself with a sheet or trying to find clothes.

A photo of Hatcher wearing little more than a Superman cape has become the most downloaded image on the Internet.

"Why me? It's so odd and so far removed from me.

"I think it's supposed to be flattering. I know I have a certain appeal but there are many other beautiful people starring on TV series that this should have happened to."

Hatcher does feel starring in a fantasy series is part of the reason.

"People who watch fantasy and science fiction tend to be a little more computer oriented. The X-Files people are getting their share of attention only in that case it's David Duchovny not Gillian Anderson who's getting downloaded."

Hatcher is married to actor Jon Tenney.

"He's not really computer literate so he hasn't been downloading me. I'm the computer nut in the family."

Hatcher says she suffered her share of physical abuse filming 2 Days In The Valley, especially in her brawl with Charlize Theron who plays one of her character's kidnappers.

"Charlize and I threw each other and each other's stunt doubles around that room for two whole days. Then there's the scene where James Spader whacks a needle into my butt. They did about 20 takes of that. I had bruises for days."

She insists such behavior is not that far removed from her Lois & Clark character.

"Lois is no stock damsel-in-distress character. She is one tough lady. She could kick some woman's or man's butt if she had to."

Lois Lane and Clark Kent will be married on the third episode of Lois & Clark this season. Hatcher says she has no trepidations about the major move for their characters.

"I don't produce the show so why should I worry. We have the kind of producers who don't consult with their actors so the ball is completely in their court," says Hatcher. "I don't feel they're getting the best from us actors. I think their private agenda has actually worked against the show."

On her hiatus from Lois & Clark this season, Hatcher filmed the comedy Dogwatch with Friends' star David Schwimmer.

"I'm looking forward to the time when I can return full time to making movies."