House Spoilers: David Shore Talks Season 7

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Here is what David Shore has for us on the seventh season of "House".  The site thestar.com reveals to us:

This isn't one of those bait-and-switch dream sequences, promises House creator and executive producer David Shore.

"He and Cuddy have a relationship," says Shore. "It is real. The question is, how will House react to the situation? Will he handle it? Can he handle it?"

Shore was speaking at the Fox press tour party this week at the Santa Monica Pier. His star, Laurie, was not at the event, but Edelstein was.

"It's been fun so far, we've shot about four (new episodes)," says the actress.

Edelstein feels the series, now in its seventh season, has reached the point where House and Cuddy "can't not do it anymore."

She acknowledges that this is a critical point in the series. Usually hour-long dramas avoid resolving the will-they, won't-they storyline until the very last episode. When David and Maddie got together on the late ’80s detective drama Moonlighting, for example, many though the show had "jumped the shark."

Hart Hanson, the Canadian-born creator of Bones, has flirted with putting his two appealing leads together (David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel) but isn't ready to have them seal the deal yet.

When asked about it in the past, Laurie has had reservations about House and Cuddy as a couple, feeling his character is on a long, slow, torturous path to enlightenment and, up till now, did not have the courage to seize the day and engage in any kind of serious relationship.

Edelstein says viewers should do what she does and trust Shore to boldly go where House has never gone before.

"The great thing about David's writing is he explores head-on all the things you worry about as a viewer," she says. "I love that he has managed to write those problems in."

Shore, who jokes that he is "the second most successful writer from London, Ontario" (deferring to two-time Academy Award winner Paul Haggis), says that House won't suddenly become a whole new man.

"The big thing is that the show is still the show, and House is still House," he says.

He acknowledged not wanting to explore the two leads as a couple in the past because "it changes everything," he says. "So we put it off, but it seems right now."

It also seemed time to change the show's opening titles. House has seen several cast changes over the years, with one character, Kutner, killed off after the actor who played him, Kal Penn, left to work for the Obama White House (he has since jumped back into filmmaking, working on another Harold & Kumar movie).

This season, "Thirteen" (Olivia Wilde) will take a leave of absence; a new medical student, played by Joan of Arcadia star Amber Tamblyn, has been added to the cast.

Besides overseeing House, Shore has been working on a revival of the classic ’70s series The Rockford Files, which has yet to be picked up. The executive producer insists that project is still alive, with colleagues taking another run at reviving it.

House is one of the most popular scripted dramas on both sides of the border. In Canada on Global, it seemed to benefit the most from the introduction of BBM Canada’s Portable People Meters last September, returning with more than 4.2 million viewers.

"I've heard that," says Shore. "I think that’s because of all my friends and family in Canada."