The only thing that they mentioned in regards to House was what do people usually call it. Do they say "House" or "House MD" Also, at the end of the interview Kilborn relayed the premier date.

She didn't talk about the show, but she did look great. Here's the interview on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qva64uY1MeY

She looked truly amazing, and she is adorable as herself. I would love to see more outtakes of her.

Lisa Edelstein admits that Huddy has been her idea and not the idea of the producers or writers: http://tonight.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5570722&fSectionId=449&fSetId=251

Sdemar, I agree, 100 percent. The actual quote is: Edelstein didn't want to come off as "an annoying, desperate actor", so she took it upon herself to come up with ideas for Cuddy, pondering Cuddy's back story and relationship with House. Then she presented her ideas to the show's creator and producer, David Shore. "It was great; he liked my ideas,'' she says. "I realised it wasn't that they didn't care about my character, there was just a lot going on.'' I think it's a huge jump to go from a general conversation early on in the show's history to "Huddy has been her idea," etc.

I don't know how her original idea(s) were expressed, but even if they meant exploring a relationship with House that doesn't seem like an unreasonable direction for the show to go, especially this far in. Whoever had the idea apparently TPTB including Hugh are going along with it. I think it's great for the character to finally get something he wants and apparently she wants it too. I'm no shipper but I think this will be fun. To some degree. But of course, at this point, we don't know what that connection will look like. And I don't think anyone expects it to last very long. Including Lisa E, according to the few news items I've looked at.

"Yes, it's a huge jump, but LE has layed the foundation for Huddy with her idea." Jeez, you don't let up , do you? Anyone can make a suggestion, but the producers, writers, HL etc etc kinda, sorta have to go along with it, don't they? LE doesn't have much power on this show. Mod Note: I know you're new here. You're welcome to disagree, but you don't need to be nasty. Watch your tone. Thanks, Fid

And I don't think anyone expects it to last very long. Well, I don't know that I would say everyone. I can actually see how it could work and last as long as it is done in a non-conventional way.:)) Yes, it's a huge jump, but LE has layed the foundation for Huddy with her idea. Sorry, I don't mean to sound argumentative but we don't know that because we don't know what sort of relationship she was referring to when she said "relationship with House". But at the end of the day, it does seem DS wants to explore a romantic relationship between House and Cuddy.

In Season 1, I think only David Shore had the power to decide what went in a script and what didn't. Katie Jacobs took care of the day-to-day business of getting the show filmed, not the scripts. And, while I'm sure they respected him and listened to his input, at that point Hugh Laurie was a hired gun (and not even a very expensive one.) We didn't find out that that Cuddy knew House (or knew who he was) when they were younger until Humpty Dumpty (Season 2, episode 3). We didn't know for sure that they had ever had sex until Top Secret (Season 3, episode 16.) My guess is that what she suggested were things like why Cuddy puts up with House. She'd suggest they have a past. Also, despite everything he says, she knows that he does respect her -- when she was following him around the hospital for Vogler and he said "Cuddy, don't you hate doing this?" was, to me, not the sort of thing you'd ask someone you really thought was just a bureaucrat. She said she went to DS to suggest things that would make her important to the show so she'd have a job in S2 and she "felt more solid after that. We were all on the same page.'' So the types of things she suggested were the types of things he was already thinking about.

There was a story and vid in which LE talks about floating a Huddy backstory to producers AND it was clear she was talking about an romantic/intimate type past between House and Cuddy. Correct, I remember that, too, but that was a backstory and in the past. But I never heard LE say she pushed an upcoming romance between House and Cuddy to the producers. I think it was DS that said there was sexual undertones going on whenever they put their characters together on screen. So I suppose LE's suggestion of a backstory and DS's observations of how the two actors interacted when performing led to the idea of putting them together romantically. I think all House main actors probably did that with the exception of RSL and JS. To be fair, we really don't know which ones did or didn't unless they or TPTB come out publically and state it. I doubt that RSL would though because he has always been an integral part of the storyline. And I don't think anyone expects it to last very long. Well, I don't know that I would say everyone. I can actually see how it could work and last as long as it is done in a non-conventional way.:)) Oh yes, I suppose it could, but I was mainly referring to the tone of some articles I've seen quoting DS and I think Lisa E saying it wasn't going to be all lovey dovey. That and the angst that is such a part of House: I don't see that disappearing. And then there's his history with Stacy, all wanting her until he got her and then realizing he couldn't make her happy. Not trying to rain on anyone's parade, just looking at the history of the character and what's being said in the media. But I do think it's awesome they are giving it a try. Good on 'em for that! Taking this to House/Cuddy thread for response.

The first indication that House and Cuddy felt something more than an administrative connection came in the third episode of season one when Wilson questioned how House could be so affected by Cuddy and House responded with the "Great Wall of China" deflection. Vogler's question to Cuddy about sleeping with House came in the middle of season one. To my mind, this strongly suggests that Shore was carefully laying the groundwork for exploring a romantic relationship for House and Cuddy from the beginning of the show. I don't for a minute think that LE's thoughts about a backstory for Cuddy pushed or compelled Shore to go in a direction he was not already contemplating. I think that what LE did is standard practice for most actors, developing a plausible backstory and motivation for her character. Of course she shared her ideas about Cuddy's history with Shore and others, this is what experienced actors do in order to ensure that they are not veering far away from what the showrunners have in mind. LE made sure that her take on Cuddy was in line with what Shore wanted by sharing her backstory ideas with him. I don't think this means that she somehow imposed her ideas on him. In fact, I believe that much of the thinking about the direction of the Cuddy character took place in the casting process itself. There were many ways they could have gone in casting the part of Cuddy. The top PPTH administrator could have been a woman in her sixties or a man. I think someone like Andre Braugher would have been fantastic as House's boss, for example. Instead Shore and Co. chose LE for the part. It struck me during season one that it simply wasn't probable that TPTB would select an established actress like LE -- with proven acting chops in both drama and comedy, along with a boatload of beauty, brains, charisma, and sex appeal -- if they planned to relegate her to only a few seconds of screen time each week. I liken this to the old principle of traditional drama: you don't put a loaded gun on the living room table in act one of your play unless you plan to fire it in act three. In my formulation, you don't hire a Lisa Edelstein for the pivotal role of Cuddy in the first act, unless you plan to make full use of all her varied talents and potential by the third act. The fact that HL was the last actor cast and that TPTB looked at many actors who were younger and more conventionally "sexy" for the part, suggests to me that Shore had a House/Cuddy romantic endgame in mind all along. The wonderful serendipity of the chemistry between LE and HL was something that TPTB could only hope for and jump upon once they saw it.