14 DAY TRIAL // Good news for all “House M.D.” fans: the show will most certainly return for a new season once its seventh comes to an end. The bad news is that, because of a budgetary “battle” Fox is tangled in right now, the cast is yet to sign on for it.
Michael Ausiello of TVLine has it from members of the cast that they’re yet to sign for the next season. This, of course, isn’t to say that they won’t be doing precisely that very soon or that the network doesn’t want them.
So far, only leading man Hugh Laurie, who plays Dr. House, is on board for season 8 of the medical drama. The others will soon follow suit, Ausiello promises.
“A behind-the-scenes budgetary battle has nearly the entire cast of Fox’s House awaiting word on their future with the hit medical drama,” Ausiello reports.
“Although series lead Hugh Laurie is officially on board for Season 8, ‘there are still some issues to be worked out’ between Fox and NBC’s Universal Media Studios, which produces the series, when it comes to signing the rest of the ensemble, Lisa Edelstein told reporters during a Monday conference call,” he adds.
“I believe NBC [Universal] wants Fox to take over the cost of production, and Fox doesn’t want to. Until that’s resolved, they can’t even begin to talk to any of us,” Edelstein, who plays Dr. Cuddy, House’s superior and lover, said.
Still, that they’re not talking money just yet doesn’t mean that the cast of season 7 won’t return for a new season. Ausiello says he has it from very good sources that all will be back.
Even better, he’s also found out that Olivia Wilde (Thirteen) will have a larger role come season 8, now that she’s done working on her movie career.
So all those fans who heard that Thirteen may soon die because of her Huntington’s disease should breathe easy: it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
“The series regular cast for House’s current season includes Edelstein (as Cuddy), Robert Sean Leonard (Wilson), Omar Epps (Foreman), Jesse Spencer (Chase) and Peter Jacobson (Taub),” Ausiello says.
The only one who is certainly not coming back for a new season is Amber Tamblyn.