Details Coming Out on Possible House Spin-Off

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri May 16, 2008 11:13 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Michael Weston by Soren McCarty/WireImage.comStalker alert! Sources confirm to me exclusively that Michael Weston, best known as Michael C. Hall's psychotic pursuer on Six Feet Under, is in advanced talks to appear on House next season in a multi-episode arc that could lead to his own spinoff.

But, as I reported last week in Ask Ausiello, the actor — also well remembered as Mariska Hargitay's long-lost bro on Law & Order: SVU — won't exactly be scrubbing in next to the show's title crab: He'll be playing a private eye. So it's probably a good bet that the potential offshoot would look more like Magnum P.I. than House 2.0.

Fox will wait to see if Weston catches on in the role before deciding whether or not to move forward with the spin-off. (No pressure though, dude!)

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#1 - Fri May 16, 2008 11:14 AM EDT

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Perry O

That's not really a spin off though. A spin off is when you take and established character from one show and make a series around them (e.g. Frasier) not introducing a character onto a show for the purpose of creating a new show around them. This is just a publicity stunt to try to pump up interest in a new show.

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#2 - Fri May 16, 2008 11:26 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

That's true and a fair point. I'm using their headline language.
Incidentally did anyone else see that episode of Six Feet Under? It turned me off of the show for good - and was very hard to watch.

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#2.1 - Fri May 16, 2008 11:59 AM EDT

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firsty

we're in a bad place for television creativity. several programs are proving that their unique characters/plots/formats are working, and now the suits are looking to capitalize in the only way they know how - repetition. the law & order/CSI formats have been spun for a while now, but they were character- and setting-indepedent from the beginning. "the office" is also planning a spin-off. NBC's 2008 fall season includes a spin-off of SNL's news segment.

we've enjoyed a burst of creativity over the past 5 years or so, with unique programming developed from inspired twists on the standard sitcom/comedy-drama themes - from the camera work and self-awareness of shows like "scrubs" to the "hero as unabashed @!$%#" schemes of "arrested development," and "house, md," to the blurring of lines between reality and fiction of "the office" and "30 rock." on the heels of the '90s, whose television home runs were traditional sitcoms like "seinfeld," "frasier," and "everybody loves ray," or traditional niche dramas like the hospital ones ("er"), the cop ones ("law and order"), and the lawyer ones ("boston legal, "ally mcbeal"), the industry has found enough new successes to start the process of churning out cheap knockoffs.

i watch "house" because of house. i dont see watching a "house" spinoff unless the premise and characters stand on their own.

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#3 - Wed May 21, 2008 11:58 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Me either. I sort of resent the idea - publicly floated in articles like this - that they are going to try to track how we react to a character to determine if it merits its own show. It makes me feel more dirty, cheap and used than usual.

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#3.1 - Wed May 21, 2008 12:26 PM EDT

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