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Exclusive: Six Feet Under Alum Ready to Play House?
Michael Weston by Soren McCarty/WireImage.com
Stalker 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!)
In any event, what do you think of this development? Are the suits smart to invite Weston to the House party? Or would you have preferred to see one of the series' regulars spun off — and if so, which one(s)? Debate, discuss, dicker. Not necessarily in that order.
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May 15, 2008 10:18 PM
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Wow it seems the networks are really in to spin-offs right now. Family Guy, The Office, and House all have spin-offs in the works. And wasn't there an idea for a Prison Break spin-off too.
Anyways, I'm happy that if this ends up going forwards, none of the main cast will leave House. I love the cast they have right now.
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May 15, 2008 11:14 PM
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I can't wait for him, he is realy good freinds with Zach Braff and was amazingly funny in Garden State.
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May 15, 2008 11:55 PM
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This is a joke RIGHT! how can you spin off House? he is a one off unique character, look at shows that have tried to be House like with their main characters: all failed!
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May 16, 2008 1:27 AM
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This is a stupid idea. I'm worried that this will take away story from the characters we love on the show to focus on him. What's he going to do, investigate, House? How original. Let's hope there's not some long lost kid in the works or I'll puke. I'm jumping the gun, thinking of the private eye possible stories and going all cliche. I trust the writers in the end. I just don't think it will be successful.
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May 16, 2008 2:23 AM
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Why exactly would this be considered a House spinoff? It sounds like a completely different show! Ridiculous.
Nothing against Michael Weston - who I've only seen on Law and Order: SVU - but I'm not sure I want to see him as a leading man in any series. Guess I'll have to wait and see.
As for the the cast of House, please get rid of some of its newer members; there are too many characters!
Can't wait to see the conclusion of the Season Finale, though. Should be great.
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May 16, 2008 4:02 AM
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This guy was on a couple episodes of Scrubs... the war vet who I think had amnesia and later kissed Elliott. He seems like a very good actor...
But why, oh why, do networks insist on doing spin-offs? First The Office and now House?
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May 16, 2008 8:22 AM
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Not to split hairs, but I'm not sure what Michael Weston has to do with "stalker." On Six Feet Under, he played a hitchhiker that Michael C. Hall's David picked up, with horrific results. The hitchhiker was nuts/tweaking/some combination therein. He scared David so bad, David hallucinated about him for episodes, but Weston's characted never STALKED him. Ausiello slipped on this one.
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May 16, 2008 8:54 AM
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Michael Weston is also the son of John Rubinstein. He's a tad younger than I would have expected for this role. It sounded more like someone maybe 10 years older--not that that sounds like a bad idea. It might be a good angle on a detective show to have it centered on a very young, inexperienced gumshoe.
The show would be a spinoff of House by dint of starting out on a episode of House. It's what they usually call a "backdoor pilot" nowadays. I would prefer they do a spinoff with Chase, Foreman, and Cameron, in order to explore medical drama outside of the "Medical Mystery of the Week" format, which gets a tad repetitive. Plus I like those characters and they aren't well-used anymore on the Mother Show. But if the spinoff they're doing is good, I'd be happy to give it a try.
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May 16, 2008 9:10 AM
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At least they're going to spin it off without tearing apart the original cast. That way if it doesn't work, we don't have to miss anybody from the old House cast, like how Addison left GA for Private Practice. I like it better that way -- stills keeps the originals where they're at and where we want them but gives you a choice to watch it or not.
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May 16, 2008 9:29 AM
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This isn't a true spin-off, just a weak marketing ploy to launch a new show by letting it rub elbows with a wildly successful one. I'm not falling for it!
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May 16, 2008 10:50 AM
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I don't consider a show like that to be a spin-off. When it doesn't have any of the parent show's regulars in it, it's just what they call a "back-door pilot," isn't it? They just use a popular show to launch another unrelated, or tangentially related, show.
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May 16, 2008 10:53 AM
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I really wish you would stop saying Sources confirm to me exclusively when most of the information you post can be found at many other places online. You put that stupid line in almost every single post and it's almost never true.
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May 16, 2008 11:55 AM
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Why couldn't they just leave New Amsterdam on? It was a great show.
I agree with a few of the others, it's not really a spinoff just because the guy appears on House. Is Dr. House ever going to appear on the "spinoff" ? Probably not.
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May 16, 2008 11:57 AM
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How many episodes of SFU was he actually IN (other than flashbacks and "previously on Six Feet Under" footage)?
He may be a good actor, but his name doesn't come to my mind when I hear the phrase "Six Feet Under Alum."
Oh, God, a spinoff of "House"? Maybe creative efforts would be better spent returning the show to the quality level of the first three seasons, before the show became the train wreck it is now.
I remember when LA Law was a good show. Then it just got weird; it was almost as if the writers went on a spree of self-destruction. I hate to see that happening to House, MD, after only a few years.
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May 16, 2008 12:07 PM
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