[citation needed] He auditioned for (but did not receive) the part of J.D in the 1990 film Thelma and Louise, which was a break-out role for Brad Pitt.

Debuting with much fanfare (Show was on the covers of both TV Guide and People immediately after the series' debut), the series' ratings in its first season were not up to expectations, and the show was revamped in the middle of the first season from an episodic strait-laced drama format to a melodramatic soap opera serial format in the tradition of Dynasty, one of Spelling's earlier hits.

[citation needed] During his time on Melrose Place, Show also appeared on an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Laura Leighton.

[citation needed] He has since starred in a number of television movies, including Blessed Assurance with Cicely Tyson, Between Love and Honor with Robert Loggia, and Homeland Security with Tom Skerritt and was one of the leads in the short-lived Fox Network supernatural drama Point Pleasant in 2005.

[5] In 2008, Show starred in the short-lived CBS summer drama series Swingtown as an airline pilot, Tom Decker.

[8] In the 2010 and 2011 season, he appeared in the recurrent role of Michael Sainte, the Goji Guru, on the HBO series Big Love.

In 1990, he played the lead in an adaptation of On the Waterfront and after his stint on Melrose Place he appeared in a production of The Glass Menagerie.

In 2012, he appeared in the film The Possession, directed by Ole Bornedal, alongside Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick.