MSN – News – Shatner Pranks Iowa Town — Known Canadian goofball and ham actor, William Shatner is at it again. Should be good.

“This is my picture of what America is,” Shatner tells the Iowans in the first episode, “and I’m Canadian.”

Here’s the setup: Shatner and his kooky entourage, played by unknown actors, beam down to Riverside, Iowa — which dubbed itself the future birthplace of Kirk back in 1985 — to shoot a sci-fi film starring Shatner and some locals. The film is a front, and Shatner’s gags are seemingly obvious. Apparently this small town doesn’t have cable, because if anybody had seen one episode of “Project Greenlight,” they’d know this is not how movies — low-budget or otherwise — get made.