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.

Birthday cake for Jesse Spencer.

FOX confirmed Thursday (Jan. 14) that Jennifer Morrison (Cameron) will indeed be returning to “House” later this season, and though no details about when or why her character will come back have been released, there are a few rumors floating around.

Sources tell that Morrison may be on set as early as Friday and is scheduled to work through the weekend.

Word is, Cameron and her on-screen husband Chase (Jesse Spencer) will be featured heavily in the episode and that star Hugh Laurie is set to direct.

FOX wouldn’t confirm this bit of information, but if Morrison is in fact on set this week, she will definitely be following Mr. Laurie’s lead. Executive producer Katie Jacobs mentioned in an interview with me earlier this week that she had just come from a casting session for the hour Hugh is helming.

But what’s even more intriguing is the storyline the “House” writers have apparently concocted for Morrison’s “swan song.” I’m not saying we’ll never ever see Cameron again. I’m simply saying that it sounds as if this particular ep will make up for the hurried manner in which she exited the show earlier this season.

And I’ll leave it at that, because based on what I’ve been told, it is going to be a phenomenal, emotional, heartbreaking and beautiful hour of television. In other words, “House” at its best, and I don’t want to ruin the experience for anyone.

Source: Greg Yaitanes

Question: It’s great to see Jesse Spencer getting a powerful storyline on House. Any news on how he’ll cope without Cameron? —Angela
Ausiello: Not well. In the Nov. 23 episode — the first sans Jennifer Morrison as Cameron — he loses it and punches House in the face! “Chase is very clearly off his game,” says a House insider, “and struggling with the loss of Cameron.” What prompts the fisticuffs? Apparently, Doc Crankypants unfavorably compares him to his far prettier, smarter wife, and Chase blows his top and decks him!

Question: Jesse Spencer has been amazing in the current arc on House, but I’m worried this storyline is setting up his eventual exit from the show a la Jennifer Morrison. Any word from your mole? —Carol
Ausiello: My mole assures me that you’re just being paranoid. Jesse’s staying put. (For now at least.)