He was careful to phrase his session examples as examples instead of future storylines: "If you wanted to bring in Wilson's parents – not that I'm saying we're doing that – where are they from?" He stopped himself at one point to evaluate whether he'd just said too much and decided he hadn't, but his hesitation makes me hesitate to reveal what made him stop. I'm not that bitter.
The big "spoiler alert" from our interview was the revelation that House will still be solving a medical case each week with his usual dark humour. Who would have guessed? My jesting inference is that, reading between the lines of the following exchange in that interview, clearly a chastened House is going to adopt a baby and a puppy:
Q: We've seen House as this person who refuses to acknowledge he needs to change, refuses to admit he's miserable, he's just fine the way he is. The finale is kind of a game changer on that but I'm guessing you can't go too much further down the kinder, gentler House route. Is there anything you can say about season five about how you're going to deal with that?A: [Hoselton looks to the PR person, who jokingly threatens to tape his mouth shut.]
Q: In general, I mean. You can't make House adopt a puppy and babies but ...
A: [He cringes.]
Q: Oh great, that's episode one, isn't it?
Turns out, no, he was remembering the episode where House did actually get a dog: "Of course it was done in the most cynical, bitter, horrible way, in keeping with him."
He wouldn't talk much about the future, but he did say about the recent past in his festival session that the show was looking for a way to bring in "new blood," suggesting — not that this is a news flash — that the reset button will not be set on the Survivor arc. "It gets harder and harder to write fresh material for cast members who have been around a while."
Article comments
1 - peggy o
Can't wait for Kevin Connolly and the boys from Entourage to return on Sept 28th! The premiere date is getting closer and closer. Please keep bringing us Entourage spoilers (and Pics too if possible).
2 - Diane Kristine
I've got no more spoilers but I'll have a bit more on behind the scenes with Doug Ellin soon. He did say he was just writing the last episode of the season and they were in week 6 of 24 weeks of production. That doesn't exactly need a spoiler warning, though ;)
3 - Bones Fans
You tried, Hart, but I think you guys did a great job under the circumstances! Here's to a Bigger and Better Fourth Season of Bones! All of your fans are super excited! =)
4 - Josh Lasser
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5 - jason
Here's some info they aren't mentioning about Smash.