[Photo: © 2009 FOX Broadcasting Co.]

According to Robert Sean Leonard, who plays Wilson on House, probably not. The show’s creator, David Shore says that season 6 will deal a lot with House’s “recovery” and what happens at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital as result.

Here’s the spoiler from Michael Ausiello:

Question: Will House recover from whatever it is that landed him in the psycho ward? –Catherine

Ausiello: You mean will he stop being crazy? “No,” says Robert Sean Leonard. “It would be like Quincy suddenly getting nice and loving examining dead bodies. There are certain things that are just givens about the show, and one is the general makeup of House’s attitude and personality. He may stop hallucinating but he’d never stop being sarcastic.” Adds series creator David Shore: “It depends on how we define better. That is the question. How sick is he? Does House want to get better? Can he get better? And how much better? And how much will the team be told and how will the dynamic shift with House away? Those are the questions we are going to deal with in the first bunch of episodes, and perhaps even the whole season to a certain extent.” [Source: EW]

[Photo: Zuma Press]

There’s a very comprehensive play-by-play account of the evening’s House discussion at the Paley Center last night at The Futon Critic, so I won’t re-write the entire thing. I do encourage you to go read the entire account. It’s wonderful.

I do want to share a couple of my favorite quotes from the evening, though. This first one is Hugh Laurie’s trademark wit:

When asked about House’s trip to the loony bin at the end of this season. “It’s all drawn heavily on my personal life,” Hugh quips.

SPOILER ALERT!!

Here’s a quote from David Shore about the beginning of season 6:

When asked why the season premiere will pick up shortly after the finale wrapped instead of the usual three month or so gap: “We don’t want to shake things up for the sake of shaking things up,” David says. “We just want to keep exploring this character… we’re just seeing where his life progresses and where it goes. And the end of last year obviously we did something that felt natural and real to me but is very extreme and we want to be as true to that as we can and follow up on that. So we are doing, Katie’s going to be directing a two-hour season premiere, which is basically a movie which basically follows House through that institution. And it takes place over a much longer period of time than we’re used to. And [it's about] his life in there, his search for getting better.”

And this quote is for the Huddy fans. To me, it’s hard to imagine House & Cuddy not having that chemistry, but here’s what David Shore said about it:

When asked about when the Cuddy/House ball started rolling: “Very early on,” David says. “No matter what we wrote, the two of them had this odd sexual tension. And that’s been something we’ve been nurturing and trying to explore from day one.” As for their imaginary hook-up: “I think it was significant even though it turned out not to be real. It was very significant - we got an insight into House’s subconscious.”

There’s also some of what was said to the press at The Press Association. My favorite quote from this aricle is from Lisa Edelstein:

“He’s a sexy man, he’s eight feet tall, his eyes are like ice blue, he’s extremely intelligent, really talented, what’s not sexy about Hugh Laurie?!”

I agree with her completely! Now I absolutely can’t wait for Season 6 to begin!!!

Along with Hugh Laurie, the Paley Center had some of the other House cast members appear last night to talk about the creative process for the show.

Here are some photos of Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps and Robert Sean Leonard from the event. RSL rarely makes appearances, so it’s a real pleasure to find photos of him there too!

[Photo: Zuma Press]

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I hope you’ll join with me in sending wonderful birthday wishes to House star Robert Sean Leonard. Today is his 40th birthday!

[Photo: ©2009 FOX Broadcaxting Co.]

Episode 5.16: The Softer Side
Air Date: February 16, 2009

In this episode of House it looks like the leg pain has finally become so intolerable that House will start to try to deal with it in a new and more dangerous way. Knowing that he’s a Vicodin addict and has done everything from drop acid to sticking a knife in a socket up until now, there’s no telling what his new “treatment” will consist of…

And the patient is another child whose parents aren’t honest with House…gee, what are the chances of that?

Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard, C) and Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein, R) are surprised to learn that House (Hugh Laurie, L) has found a new way to treat his leg pain in the HOUSE episode “The Softer Side” airing Monday, Feb. 16 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
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Episode 5.14: The Greater Good
Air Date: February 2, 2009

To get us excited about the House 100th episode that will air on Monday, FOX has released a bunch of promo video clips. It looks like things between Foreman & Thirteen are going to get rough and Thirteen is going to have health issues…perhaps even be blinded. And the patient tells why she stopped practicing medicine to work in a restaurant kitchen. I actually can identify with what she says…who among us hasn’t at some time in our life asked ourselves if there was something else that would make us happy? And the fact that Cuddy & House go on some sort of escalating retaliation looks fantastic! This looks like a very cool episode!

And here are the Photos and the Press Release for the episode.

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Can Hugh Laurie get any more adorable? Here’s a clip of his acceptance speech for his Screen Actors Guild Award that he received last night. He is so humble and witty. I just love the speech.

Also, even though Robert Sean Leonard managed to escape the paparazzi at the event, you can see in this clip that he was sitting next to Hugh at the House table. Check it out.

Of course, the men from House were looking hot at last night’s SAG Awards too. I can’t find any photos of Robert Sean Leonard there, but all the rest of the House guys were definitely there. I like the pictures of them smiling, so I waded through all those scowling ones to find you these. Don’t you agree that they look so much more handsome when they smile? Why don’t they realize that?

[Photo: Pacific Coast News]

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Episode 5.12: Big Baby
Air Date: January 26, 2009

[Photo: ©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Adam Taylor/FOX]

Looks like this will be a super fun episode when Cameron has to try to manage House!! That’s a hilarious idea all by itself. But throw in the mega-cute baby and the potential conflict for Foreman & Thirteen and I can’t wait for Monday!!

Press Release:
HOUSE TESTS CAMERON’S PATIENCE AS THE TEAM TAKES ON THE CASE OF A TOO-GOOD-TO-BE-TRUE TEACHER ON “HOUSE” MONDAY, JANUARY 26, ON FOX

Cuddy decides to spend more time at home to take care of her newly adopted baby and passes some of her day-to-day responsibilities off to Cameron, including supervising House. Cameron is forced to play House’s games and becomes involved in a power struggle as he and the team take on the case of a Special Education teacher who collapsed after spitting up blood in the middle of class. As House tests Cameron’s tolerance for his extreme measures, the patient continues to fall ill and House insists the teacher’s seemingly inherent goodness is actually a pathology. Meanwhile, Foreman must make a critical decision regarding Thirteen’s participation in the Huntington’s drug trial in the “Big Baby” episode of HOUSE airing Monday, Jan. 26 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/ PT) on FOX. (HOU-513) (TV-14 D)

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; Kal Penn as Dr. Lawrence Kutner; Olivia Wilde as Thirteen

Guest Cast: Erika Flores as Sarah; Andy Scott Harris as Johnny; Tammy Dahlstrom as Tammy; Saige Ryan Cambell as Jessica; Sam Gregory as Screaming Kid; Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse [Source: FOX]

Here’s a short clip of TV Guide’s Matt Mitovich talking to Robert Sean Leonard about what’s in store for Wilson in season 5. RSL gives us the spoiler that Wilson’s brother may be showing up on the show soon. They haven’t yet cast the character, but he gives a couple of actors’ names that he’d like to see considered for the part.

In an earlier season, there was a bit of a hint that Wilson’s brother was homeless. I think that is fascinating, actually. Since he comes from a family with its own share of dysfunction, it might help explain why he is friends with House…in spite of all House’s oddness. Check out the clip: