One tough patient is coming to the Princeton Plainsboro hospital next week. In “House M.D.” episode “The Tyrant“, the team treats a controversial African politician who has fallen ill. He dares Cameron who is in charge of him to pull the trigger if she wants him dead.
The character played by James Earl Jones is a merciless dictator named President Dibala who is being subpoenaed for crimes against humanity in his country. The team faces a moral dilemma whether to save him or let him go.
Meanwhile, Wilson tries to make peace with a feuding neighbor, but House’s prying exacerbates the problem. House himself is in the middle of his mission to get his job back.
“The Tyrant” is scheduled to air on Monday, October 5 on FOX. This would be the starting point episode that triggers Cameron’s exit from the hospital. The character played by Jennifer Morrison reportedly is about to follow her husband Chase out of Princeton after he “treads a thin moral line on a case involving an African dictator”. But after House intervenes, Chase decides to stay and she goes on with the plan.
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According to our favorite frenemy, Jennifer Morrison’s run as Dr. Allison Cameron on House will end midseason, and her exit was a creative decision on the part of the producers. (Meaning Morrison didn’t quit; she was written out.)
OK, so that’s the alleged behind-the-scenes situation—according to a rep, “The show does not have any comment” on reports of Morrison’s exit—but forget the Hollywood drama. What drives Cameron to ditch her job at Princeton-Plainsboro after more than five years in House’s orbit?
Read on for the exclusive scoop we got from insiders on why Cameron leaves her husband and the hospital…
Here’s what sources spill about Cameron’s departure: After Chase treads a thin moral line on a case involving an African dictator, he and Cameron both decide they should get out of Princeton while the getting’s good. They plan to quit the hospital together and go somewhere else where they can focus on their relationship and on each other.
And then House gets involved. Because House (Hugh Laurie) is the devil. (Argh!)
House, who loves nothing more than to pour poison in the ears of his friends, starts talking to Chase about Cameron. House suggests that Cameron forgiving Chase for his misdeeds with the dictator is out of character for her.
Shortly thereafter, Chase has an inexplicable change of heart and decides he wants to stay with House after all. Cameron is understandably upset.
Harumph.
According to insiders, this all goes down around episode eight.
If nothing else, this certainly casts a new light on what Jesse Spencer told us at the House premiere party in Hollywood last week: “I’ve got a lot of storylines coming my way. There’s a bit of dodgy doctoring going on. But dodgy doctoring is all we do on the show. Bend the rules a little bit—that’s what House does. If House was practicing medicine [in the real world] he’d have lot his license on day one.”
Long story short: Chase drank the boss’ Kool-Aid, Cameron didn’t and horrible, horrible House wins again.
What do you think about this major cast change? Does Jennifer’s departure from House and the final destruction of Hameron ruin the show for you, or will you carry on in the company of Cuddy and Thirteen and not mind one bit?
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Princeton-Plainsboro is undergoing another major shake-up: Sources confirm to me exclusively that Jennifer Morrison is leaving House.
Neither Fox nor Morrison’s reps would comment, but I’m told the actress did not quit; her exit was a creative decision on the part of producers. Morrison — the first of the show’s original cast member’s to depart — shot her last scene earlier this week and her final episode will air in November.
Suspicions about Morrison’s House future were raised last week when she was MIA at the show’s premiere screening in Hollywood.
Here’s what else I’m hearing about this surprising and, I’ll say it, disappointing, turn of events.
* Unlike Kal Penn’s dearly-departed Kutner, Cameron will not be killed off.
* Morrison’s on-screen husband, Jesse Spencer (Chase), is not leaving the show. (Do the math and you can probably figure out how she’ll be written out.)
* Producers are leaving the door open for Morrison to make a guest appearance later in the season.
The last point will prove little comfort to Cameron fans, especially since this was the season Morrison’s nearly three-year stint on the backburner was supposed to end. In fact, just last month series creator David Shore told me, “Chase and Cameron fans will be happy with the way we’re going to reintegrate them into the team — at least on a temporary basis.” (That temporary qualifier should’ve been a clue.) Even Morrison recently admitted it was “great” being front-and-center again. “I have been working a lot,” she told us, “and there are things that happen to House very early in the season that have a domino effect on all of the other characters.”
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What an incredible episode of House. It played more like a two-hour movies than the season six premiere.
We’ll do our best to hit all the important notes during this recap, but we can’t possibly do the installment - and Hugh Laurie’s incredible performance - justice…
The episode opens on House in the mental asylum where Wilson dropped him off to close last season. In a quick sequence, we see our favorite doctor taking pills, writhing in pain and screaming for help. But when the montage ends, House seems calm and on the mend.
He tells the facility’s head doctor, Dr. Nolan (played brilliantly by Andrew Braugher) that he’s ready to go home and can leave whenever he wants because he’s there on a voluntary basis. Nolan acknowledges that fact, but also reminds House that being free of his Vicotin addiction isn’t enough. He’s been troubled for a long time, and it came out following the deaths of Amber, his father and then Kutner.
Nolan says he won’t make the call necessary to reinstate House’s medical license unless the doctor truly commits to self-improvement. At this, House agrees… in the only way he can: he spends most of the opening hour trying to cause so many problems that the hospital will just dismiss him in order to be free of the nuisance.
But Nolan is a smart, stubborn man. He sees through House’s schemes, one of which involves a call to Wilson - the only other main character featured during the two hours - in order to try and blackmail Nolan. But Wilson has already heard from the man in charge and won’t play his friend’s games.
After bonding with his roommate Alvie - also played brilliantly by Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda - via his plots and his schemes, House finally wants to change. This decision is spurred on by the fact that, through an attempt to get at Dr. Nolan, House almost kills a fellow patient that believes he can fly and jumps off a parking garage ledge after House helps him believe in his delusion.
As Lyida, guest star Franka Potente also plays a vital role in the rebirth of House. He grows close to this character, who is best friends with a patient. They kiss. They make love. She seems to understand House for who he is and actually cares about him. When she leaves to help take care of her friend elsewhere at the end of the episode, House is crushed - but Nolan is encouraged.
This means House can form meaningful connections. It’s also a great sign that he came and spoke to Nolan about it, rather than run away and hide from the pain. As a result, House is set free. He’ll return to Princeton Plainsboro next week.
For now, we all need to sit back and appreciate this show, especially its star, both of which were on top of their games this week, accomplishing a type of premiere that no other series on TV could pull off.
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TREATING A PATIENT PROVES TO BE A MORAL DILEMMA ON “HOUSE” MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, ON FOX
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When a controversial African politician (guest star Jones) falls ill, he is brought to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment. The team struggles with whether to help a merciless dictator being subpoenaed for crimes against humanity in his country. Meanwhile, Wilson tries to make peace with a feuding neighbor, but House’s prying exacerbates the problem in “The Tyrant” episode of HOUSE airing Monday, Oct. 5 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/ PT) on FOX. (HOU-604) (TV-14 D, L, V)
Cast: Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House; Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy; Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman; Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson; Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron; Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase; Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub; Olivia Wilde as Thirteen
Guest Cast: James Earl Jones as Dibala; Roger Aaron Brown as Ntila; Garikayi Mutambirwa as Ruwe; Christopher Fairbanks as Agent Bass; David Marciano as Murphy; Kelly Scott as Ama
House declares he wants to quit the job and makes a reference to Jake Gyllenhaal in the preview for next week’s episode of “House M.D.” In “Epic Fail”, House returns home to Princeton where he continues to focus on his recovery, but surprises Cuddy with the news that he’s making a big change in his life.
Meanwhile, the team is unable to diagnose a loud-mouthed video game creator who posts each new symptom on the Internet and opts for treatments suggested by the online community rather than by the doctors, and Foreman angles for House’s job, but the pressure to solve the case creates tension in his relationship with Thirteen.
“House M.D.” officially kicked off its sixth season on Monday, September 21 with two episodes straight away. The third episode to the season, “Epic Fail“, airs on Monday, September 28.
On Sunday, September 20, the show failed to claim the Best Drama Series title at Primetime Emmy Awards. Hugh Laurie also sadly did not get to go home with Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Dr. Gregory House has officially gone crazy, and fans are about to dive down the rabbit hole with him when House returns on Monday (8/7c, Fox).
The two-hour Season 5 premiere finds House confined to the mental institution we saw him walking into in the final moments of last season. If you’re a fan of Hugh Laurie’s cantankerous doc, you’ll certainly be happy with the premiere, as he and Wilson (he’s in one quick scene) are the only main characters to make an appearance. “It was daunting, I was daunted and I still am,” Laurie told TVGuide.com about House’s solo flight. “It was a big thing to take on for everybody, to set it in a completely different world, with a completely different cast of characters. A lot of people have taken a lot of risks with this. If nothing else, it’s exciting.”
In the meantime, TVGuide.com turned to Laurie’s co-star Lisa Edelstein to find up what’s coming up on this season of House. She reveals what the hospital is like without House, who might give Cuddy a new romantic distraction and what she thinks is the ultimate endgame for “Huddy.”
TVGuide.com: Fans were pretty upset with the season finale because the House and Cuddy love scene they’ve been waiting for was actually a hallucination.
Lisa Edelstein: The thing that I thought was good news about it is that there’s only so far we can take it on the show before you change the dynamic, so the fact is, we kind of got a freebie in, because ultimately it can’t really be that successful because that’s not what House is about. The more time you eke out of the opportunity to just explore two people who have no relationship skills, the more we can play around. I get to be a virgin another time.
TVGuide.com: Was it awkward shooting those physical scenes with Hugh Laurie after having worked with him for so long?
Edelstein: Not for me. I wasn’t awkward. Hugh kept saying how odd it was at the Paley Festival, but I’m not married, so there’s no issue for me. I think Hugh is awesome, we’re great friends and I love kissing, so why wouldn’t I love kissing Hugh Laurie?
TVGuide.com: How will the show evolve this season?
Edelstein: The beginning of this season is really about House trying to find a sense of recovery from himself. He’s most likely doomed to fail in that regard, but that’s where we’re at right now in terms of what’s happening in the season.
TVGuide.com: House is like a rock for everyone in the hospital. How will that change now that he’s not around?
Edelstein: The team is particularly insecure. Even though they all know they’re smart, nobody feels quite as smart as House. So there’s a lot of second-guessing going on on the team. When you have such an overbearing father, in a sense, it’s really hard to know when you can think for yourself. Learning how to think on your own two feet is a challenge when somebody is making all the decisions for you. They’re all kind of faced with that.
TVGuide.com: Foreman is taking over the diagnostics department in House’s absence. How does he handle the new job?
Edelstein: He’s the one that demanded that position, by the way. She didn’t hand it to him. He demanded it. I think she respected that, but then she’s just like, ‘Step up then; this is what you want to do.’ He doesn’t handle it so well. In trying to be the best boss he can be, he actually really screws it up.
TVGuide.com: What does Cuddy get to do this season that we haven’t seen in the past?
Edelstein: This year, Cuddy is really trying to step out a little bit and get her own life and a love life and try not to be so down and up with House, which of course will probably make him go for her even more. I think there’s a lot of exploration going on with that. She should get to sleep with somebody else too. All’s fair in love and war. Damn it, why don’t I get any love scenes with anybody else? Every once in a while, somebody shoves their tongue down your throat that you’re not happy about.
TVGuide.com: What would your ideal ending for House and Cuddy be?
Edelstein: I’m not into endings because I don’t think that’s what life is. It’s not like Lost, where they’re going to get back to the island or everything is going to become clear at episode 17. I think life goes on for everybody. Whenever the show ends, it seems like there’s a chance that they might try, although the hope is very dismal for it to work. The complicated dance that they do kind of goes on forever. I would imagine [that] to be the most honest. To some extent, if you just surrender to it and let it be what it is, good and bad and ugly, that’s a beautiful thing.
I hit the “House” season premiere screening at the Arclight Cinema here in Hollywood last night where I got a bit of quality time with executive producer Katie Jacobs, who actually directed Monday’s two-hour opener.
Jacobs explains the idea behind the special episode, which chronicles the good doctor’s two to three month stay in the mental facility where Wilson left him last May.
How did it come together? When did the phenomenal guest actors like Andre Braugher and Franka Potente sign on? And will we see them again? Katie is talking.
Oh, and she’s spilling what’s to come, post-premiere. Wilson and House co-habitating?
How great is that?
