Viewers can get a second opinion on the hit series HOUSE with exclusive new content incorporated into encore airings starting tonight, Friday, March 5 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), on FOX. The never-before-seen material includes cast members’ revealing their behind-the-scenes insight on the episode’s production process, as well as their unique perspective as both an actor in – and a viewer of – the episode. Participating cast members include series stars Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jesse Spencer, Olivia Wilde and Peter Jacobson. Each cast member will be featured over the course of the encore schedule through Friday, May 21.

Here are the first details on House’s April 12 episode, which marks star Hugh Laurie’s directorial debut.

Costar Jesse Spencer, who plays Dr. Chase, tells me, “It involves four couples stuck in four rooms. It’s all heads talking.” Not just any talking heads, mind you. One of them will be Jennifer Morrison, who returns in this episode as the much-missed Dr. Cameron!

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‘Gossip Girl’ star joins Hugh Laurie in indie dramatic comedy

Leighton Meester of “Gossip Girl” will star in indie dramatic comedy “The Oranges” opposite Hugh Laurie.

Production companies are Media Rights Capital, FilmNation and Olympus Pictures. Anthony Bregman, FilmNation’s Glen Basner and Leslie Urdang of Olympus are producing.

Script by Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer centers on a man’s romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down. Julian Farino will direct, with shooting expected to begin in April in New York City. Catherine Keener’s also been cast.

Meester will be seen next in Warner’s “Date Night” and upcoming Screen Gems thriller “The Roommate.” She’s repped by WME and Leverage Entertainment.

House star Hugh Laurie will be heard playing piano on the next Meat Loaf album.

While the House star is best known for his acting he has had a few music roles over the years. He appeared in the Kate Bush video for the 1986 single ‘Experiment IV’ and was also seen in Annie Lennox’s clip for ‘Walking On Broken Glass’.

Meat Loaf is about to release his new album ‘Hang Cool Teddy Bear’ and apart from Laurie the album also features Queen’s Brian May, Jack Black, Just Hawkins from the Darkness, Steve Vai and songs written by American Idol judge Kara Dioguardi.

‘Hang Cool Teddy Bear’ is a concept album based on a short story by Killian Kerwin about a man wounded in a war.

The album will be released on April 23.

Meat Loaf will be in Australia next week to talk it up.

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And not only that. Oranges - a dark, dramatic comedy about an older man who has an affair with the daughter of a family friend – may mark the reunion of Laurie, 50, reportedly in talks to play the lead role of the creepy older guy, with Gossip Girl villainess Leighton Meester, who is being considered to play either the female lead or some other role.

Meester has appeared on two episodes of House as Ali, an underage girl who had an obsessive crush on House, so it’s not exactly unexplored territory for the two. She came to the clinic with her father who had a cold, and soon started calling the clinic obsessively to talk to him and show up in random places. She also sent him a Fresno calendar so he could count down the six months until she turns 18.

It was revealed later, however, that Ali had a spore in her brain from an earthquake while she was in California.

Mila Kunis, from That 70s Show and now doing voice for Family Guy, is also a top candidate for the other half of the May-December affair. The project, penned by Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer, is still in the works. It has, to its credit, bagged a spot on 2008’s Black List of best unproduced works, a list that includes, among others, Inglorious Basterds and the upcoming comedy The Beaver.