Television writer Peter Blake, who works on the show House M.D., learned a juicy little bit of news about his boss David Shore, the creator of the show, at the Vancouver International Film Festival forum this week.

Forum creative director Helen du Toit spilled the beans while moderating Blake's presentation. Did Blake know, she wondered, that Shore's father met on a golf course with screenwriter Paul Haggis's father to find out whether the latter could help his son David get work in Los Angeles?

Following that meeting, Shore packed up his law practice in London, Ont. and moved to the bright lights of Hollywood, promising his wife that if things didn't pan out in two years, he would give up his Hollywood dream.