David Kronke: In the House (Part II)

Yet again, "House's" cast and creators assembled, six weeks after their Museum of TV and Radio Paley Festival triumph, to deconstruct their series and its success anew. Right now, it's the No. 1 scripted series on network TV in the advertiser-friendly 18-49 demographic (its scheduling after "American Idol" clearly doesn't hurt), not to mention the winner of a Peabody Award, a Golden Globe (for series star Hugh Laurie, who plays grumpy-gus Dr. House) and an Emmy (for series creator David Shore's pilot script). So these love-fests can almost get to seem gratuitous.

During the discussion, moderator Elvis Mitchell (full journalistic disclosure: he's a good friend, and extremely generous with Cuban cigars) noted the show seems an unlikely series for the Fox network. You'll have to wait until Wednesday's paper for executive producer Paul Attanasio's pointed observation on that. (As the evening was taped for inclusion on the second season's DVD boxed set, it'll be interesting to see what becomes of that remark; then again, the show itself is co-produced by NBC/Universal Studios, who'll control the DVDs).

Mitchell asked the cast members where they saw their characters at the point of the series' conclusion. Most of the actors deflected the question, but Lisa Edelstein, who co-stars as Lisa Cuddy, House's gives-as-good-as-she-gets boss (and who was equally ribald at the Paley event), said her character would have had four children: a blonde baby (from Jesse Spencer's character), a brunette baby (from Robert Sean Leonard's character), a black baby (from Omar Epps' character) and a baby with a limp (well, guess).

And with that, Elvis won applause with the evening's line of the night: "Now that's a Fox show."