“If I think about it, I will obsess over it,” said the British actor, who was nominated for the series in 2005. “If I obsess, it will not be good.” ...

What does he expect to hear when the envelope is opened?

“And the winner is . . . James Gandolfini,” he deadpanned.

When we left House at the end of its third season, one of his doctors quit and two others were fired, leaving some to question what the irascible doctor would do next season.

"Fans are really anxious and nervous and angry at us for the season closer," says executive producer Katie Jacobs. Fear not: "Everybody is back eventually, having changed and in different capacities."

In fact, Omar Epps, Jesse Spencer and Jennifer Morrison appeared before TV critics Monday. "Things will never be the same," says Spencer, who is engaged to Morrison. "I'm going to be moving into a different area, Jen will as well, and that's going to change the energy and chemistry of the show." (Epps' Dr. Foreman will move to another hospital for a while.)

On "House," Wilde, Penn, Jacobson and Dudek are expected to play characters who will be brought in after the resignations of House's (Hugh Laurie) underlings Foreman (Omar Epps) and Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) and the firing of Chase (Jesse Spencer).

Wilde will play a young doctor called Thirteen who will be working closely with House on the series...

By his own admission British actor Hugh Laurie may not talk, walk or think like his on-screen persona, crabby Doctor Gregory House. But one interest he does have in common with the hit medic - a passion for motorbikes - was catching eyes this week as he zoomed off after a meeting in LA. While the dishy medical maverick loves his flashy Honda Repsol Limited Edition sports bike, 48-year-old Hugh is clearly in his element on his own classic model - a Triumph Bonneville.

What's impressive about your acting on House is that you could so easily be the always-perturbed guy going, "Hou-ouse!" But you manage to make it understandable why these two would be friends.
I feel like that guy all the time. I always feel like, everyone on every television show is tired of something with their character. What I like about Law & Order is it's kind of the same every week. That's what TV is. Someone once explained to me the difference between a procedural show and a character-driven show: they were talking about Law & Order when Elizabeth Rohm was on. He said, ''I can explain to you what it is in one question: Do you care if Sam Waterston sleeps with Elizabeth Rohm?'' I said, ''No, not really.'' And he said, ''It's a procedural.'' And he was right. If Sam Waterston's character slept with Elizabeth Rohm's character, I honestly wouldn't want to know about it. I'm much more interested in getting back to the crime. I think House is a weird combination. That might be one of the reason it works on some level. I don't know any other show that's both. It really is both. It's not Grey's Anatomy, it's not a nighttime soap. It is a procedural. There is a sausage-grinder of a routine we go through every week. There are four acts, or three. Something's wrong, we get it wrong, we get it wrong, we get it wrong, and then at 9:47, we get it right. It's clearly a procedural show, but the characters are pretty interesting for a procedure. I'm the guy who's always telling him what he's doing wrong. I feel a little bit like the frustrated wife or something. But these two guys are very mysterious to me, their relationship is very weird. Maybe that's one of the reasons it works. I like Hugh a lot ,and I love what he does on the show. I feel quite peripheral to it sometimes, and that might be another reason it works. I just come in and check things out every few scenes.

Suzanne Cryer, Dan Gunther, Robert Sean Leonard, James Pickens, Jr., Ron Rifkin, Holland Taylor, and Noah Wyle will star in a free reading of Jonathan Feldman's HisStory, at 7pm on Sunday, July 15 and 22 at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California. The reading will be directed by Leigh Silverman.

Omar Epps, "House" (Fox): Working with Hugh Laurie on this series must be similar to biking on a team led by Lance Armstrong. In either case, you're likely to get lost in the back draft. But Epps, as Eric Foreman, has managed to hold his own, a medical miracle if we've ever seen one.

July 14th and 15th, 2007
at Center Staging 3407 Winona Ave. Burbank, CA 91504 (Click here for map)

1st Show:
Check in begins at 12:30 doors open at 1:00
Show Time 2:00

2nd Show:
Check in begins at 5:30 doors open at 6:00
Show Time 7:00