“Mars” will be showing at a number of film festivals throughout the month of August, including the Salt Lake City Film Festival, Flagstaff Film Festival, and the Nevada City Film Festival. Â For specific dates and times, please refer to the event calendar or see the official Facebook page for Mars.
House
House’s seventh season will open with Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) acting like “a teenager in love skipping school,” whisking Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) away for an idyllic day without the pressures of their hospital and her child, says House executive producer Katie Jacobs. “Anywhere other than Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital is an easier place for them to be together in a relationship,” says Jacobs. “That’s where we start — ‘What if we only have each other?’ As their day goes on, Cuddy will learn that the locales they visit hold a secret significance.
Naturally, the lovers can’t avoid reality forever. “It would be impossible for Cuddy to spend every day as if her child and her professional life don’t exist; a little easier for House, since he is somewhat of a child himself,” says Jacobs. “But what’s cool about Season 7 is that House is going to try to stay off drugs and have a meaningful relationship. We don’t rush through this. It’s taken six years to get there, so this is not a story that’s going to be done in three episodes.
The true test will come in Episode 2, when the couple returns to work — where she’s always on top. What happens, asks Jacobs, “when you’re sleeping with your boss and she says ‘No’?” As the season progresses, Huddy will toy with getting domestic — and try to do normal “couple” things with Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) and Sam (Cynthia Watros), which could cause additional tension. “Will the four of them get along?” teases Jacobs.
As for the rest of the hospital staff, while Jennifer Morrison signed a deal to return for a few episodes as Cameron (at the producers’ discretion), don’t expect her to fill the slot temporarily vacated by Thirteen while Olivia Wilde shoots a film. Rather, a search is on for a new female doc, likely a romantic partner for one lucky surgeon. For Cuddy’s sake, let’s just hope this new addition isn’t House’s type.
Patrick Price
This summer, House fans equipped with iPhones have been having fun downloading comedic mini episodes centered around multilingual character Nurse Jeffrey (Patrick Price) and his vendetta (established at the end of last season’s regular TV episodes) to bring down House by gathering bitchy tales from fellow Princeton-Plainsboro staffers with axes to grind. House executive producer Katie Jacobs produced and directed the 13 ‘appisodes’ of Nurse Jeffrey over four days after last season wrapped. They can be viewed on the free inHouse app, with a new installment premiering each Monday at 8pm.
“Nurse Jeffrey has been gathering evidence to bring to human resources and get House kicked out of the hospital,” says Jacobs, who says Scary Spice Mel B. told Price she is among those following Jeffrey’s exploits. “A lot of the other doctors who have appeared on our show will make appearances, and some are new actors I cast.” Among the familiar faces popping up: Dr. Hourani (Maurice Godin), a surgeon who had a very antagonistic relationship with House, Blue the janitor, and Dr. Simpson (Ron Perkins).
As the series nears its conclusion at summer’s end, Dr. Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) will be first heard, then seen in the app anthology. And you can also expect a glimpse of the big grouch (Hugh Laurie) himself. “Eventually Jeffrey will want to shift through House’s personal stuff,” says Jacobs. Will daring to invade House’s office be his downfall? We’ll have to wait and see.
This storyline will be wrapped up in the 13th installment. Then when House returns in the fall, Jacobs says the hospital will likely see the addition of a new female doc to fill in for Thirteen, who resigns for mysterious reasons (actress Olivia Wilde will be shooting a film). And there might also be a female presence at the hospital in the form of Wilson’s ex-wife, Dr. Sam Carr (Cynthia Watros). With their romance solid again, might Carr be looking to park in PP Hospital to be closer to her man?
The executive producer of House has promised that Cynthia Watros will return next season.
Katie Jacobs told Entertainment Weekly that Watros will reprise her role as Wilson’s love interest Sam in the new episodes.
“She absolutely factors into the beginning of the season,” Jacobs said. “Where that relationship ultimately goes, I don’t know.”
Jacobs added that the series will focus on the dynamics of the changing relationships in the hospital now that House and Cuddy have kissed.
“Wilson will be with Sam and House will be with Cuddy,” she said. “What does it look like for Princeton Plainsboro thematically? Does it work? We’re going to look at that next season.”
Earlier this year, Watros admitted that she would like to be a series regular on the show.
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