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The sixth season of House commences production next week.

As previously reported, the two-hour premiere (airing on September 21) features Andre Braugher as the mental institution's head doctor, Dr. Nolan. The installment will also be directed by producer Katie Jacobs.

She previously worked with Braugher on the show Gideon's Crossing.

"He played Dr. Gideon, so in thinking about who was going to diagnose the greatest diagnostician there is, I thought who would be better than someone with the authority, gravitas and great skill that Andre Braugher possesses?" Jacobs said to TV Guide Magazine.

Meanwhile, Lisa Edelstein understands that fans have been "confused" about the season-ending sex scene Cuddy and House shared. But she hopes viewers have faith.

"Some people are disappointed and some people didn't understand it. Everything was real, except he obviously didn't detox and I didn't spend the night with him. When he announced in the hospital that we’d had sex, she thought he was talking about the time we had sex many years before... he wishes he were off drugs and that he could have an intimate relationship with her. And I think she wants that, too."

As for other characters:

• Producer David Shores admits he neglected Cameron and Chase over the past two seasons, but: "We actually have some very cool stuff coming up for them - not right out of the gate, but pretty early on."
• There will likely be less of Thirteen initially, though, as Olivia Wilde is shooting Disney's Tron remake.

The sixth season premiere of House will be two hours, feature only a pair of the show's main character and introduced Dr. Nolan to viewers.

As the head of the psychiatric ward where House ends up, the doctor will be played by veteran actor Andre Braugher.

"I have admired him as one of the greatest actors there is," Hugh Laurie said of his new co-star at the Paley Center for Media event this week in Beverly Hills.

Braugher is best known for his six-year run on the drama Homicide: Life on the Streets.

Most of the cast of House can take an extended vacation this summer.

They won't be needed until at least the second episode of the show's sixth season.

As previously reported, the fall premiere will be two hours in length.

From playing poker to diagnosing patients, House and Wilson are as entertaining as any duo on TV.

Now, Michael Ausiello states that the episode will feature only two of the show's main players: House and Wilson. Look for everyone else to pop up the following week.

"It is a bold move," Hugh Laurie told Entertainment Weekly last week. "We are moving into our sixth year and I suppose the writers felt that we couldn't just reprise the same stories, the same sets, the same look, the same problems. We needed to go on an adventure, and this is it."

While Fox is yet to announced a premiere date for the sixth season premiere of House, the network has confirmed that the opening episode will air for two hours.

As fans might expect, it will also prominently feature the main character inside his new home: a mental institution.

Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello speculates that House will do his best to get along with his fellow patient there, even going so far as forming a hospital band. On what is the TV columnist basing this predicition?

Producers are searching for older actor who "stomps to his own beat" and is a "real percussionist" (we've assumed this role would fall to Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda, but it appears that he will portray a different character.)

The show is also seeking for a young actress that can play the cello.

As loyal viewers know, House himself is a quasi-master at the piano, guitar, harmonica and saxophone. Sounds like a band worth lining up for to us!

We already know that House will be joined in a mental institution next season by at least one musically-inclined basket case, as Lin-Manuel Miranda will come aboard for at least two episodes.

Now, Michael Ausiello is reporting that the show is seeking to cast an actress in her early 20s to mid 30s that is proficient at playing the cello. Those interested must be available for a month of shooting, which implies that this is more than a one-episode role.

Production on the sixth season of House begins next week.

From In the Heights to in the nut house.

In very cool casting news (for those of us that have attended numerous Broadway plays in order to satisfy our lovely, musical-loving fiancee), Lin-Manuel Miranda will appear on at least two episodes of House next season.

Sources tell Michael Ausiello that the Tony Award-winning Miranda, who wrote and starred in In the Heights, will play House's mental hospital roommate. Look for him to debut in the season six premiere.

The character's name will be Stomp. He's described as a natural "percussionist" who constantly taps out his own personal rhythm.

The singer won't be the only guest star to take on the role of a mentally imbalanced character; House producers are seeking other "interesting actors" to populate the psychiatric facility that will be House's residence for the foreseeable future.

So... House and Cuddy never had sex?!?

Moreover, the events depicted on the show's second-to-last episode of season five never even happened?!?

House left many viewers irritated, after it revealed in its season finale that its main character - spoiler alert! - had so many screws loose that he was imagining events taking place in a drastically different manner than reality.

Executive producer David Shore sat down with TV Guide Magazine this week to clear things up...

On what was real: Every scene that House wasn’t in was real. But even the stuff that House was in was real—it was just his perception of the lipstick/pills that was distorted. And there was no detox or sex.

On House sobering up: He’s certainly going to purse that. We want to treat this seriously and we want to go down that road.

On the future of Huddy: Initally, there are bigger issues on the table, but it would be dishonest to just let that disappear. Obviously House has feelings for her. Even though the love affair didn’t happen, in House’s mind it did.

On House's professional status next season: We want to deal with this in as realistic way as possible. We are going to be with House, but it’s not going to be at Princeton-Plainsboro. We want to take it through the process that House is going through.

LAME!!!!!

We love House, and we can appreciate what the show was trying to accomplish in its season-ending storyline. But it's never fair to blatantly trick viewers by showing them important scenes one week, and then informing us the following week that they never took place.

It's cheap, lazy writing.

What on earth are we talking about? Read a recap of the season finale, "Both Sides Now," to find out.

We gotta at least give props to a few great House quotes from the episode, especially anything said between Wilson and House. Check then out below:

House: Admit it--you're curious why I want to make her angry.
Dr. Wilson: I'm sure it's convoluted, wrong, and stupid. | permalink

Dr. Wilson: How's the pain?
House: She's probably got some bruising.
Dr. Wilson: Yeah, I get it. You're a stud. | permalink

House: I slept with Cuddy. After she helped me detox from Vicodin. I've been clean for almost 24 hours now. (Wilson stares) Okay. Thought I'd mention it.
Dr. Wilson: Wow. Wow! One for each.
House: That's what she said. Ha. | permalink

Dr. Wilson: The other wow. You were sober. She was sober.
House: Clean and sober and hot.
Dr. Wilson: Wow! This is fantastic. How are you gonna screw it up? | permalink

On tonight's season finale of House, titled "Both Sides Now," viewers have been promised a shocking development.

They already were witness to one last week, of course, as House and Cuddy finally went all the way.

In the following pair of clips from this week's episode, the aftermath of that event is still being felt, as House relays the exciting news to Wilson and confronts a clearly-awkward Cuddy.

Follow this article's jump to watch both scenes from the finale.

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We're days away from the House season finale. What can fans expect to see on the episode titled "Both Sides Now?"

According to Michael Ausiello, there will be...

• A wedding;
• Emotions, emanating from fans of House/Cuddy, that include happiness, sadness, and extreme anger;
• More visions of Amber;
• And the return of another Princeton Plainsboro alum that will descend from heaven to haunt House (Kutner, we presume?).