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Back in May -- remember that far back -- Isabelle wrote about the fact that David Shore, creator of House, was contemplating a new show. It was a spinoff of House, but not a medical show. It was going to be in the private eye genre.

Newark Star-Ledger columnist Alan Sepinwall (with Dan Feinberg) did an interview with David recently and found out some more information about the spinoff.

"We brought in a character, partway through the year, [actor] Michael Weston as this private investigator House goes to. The spinoff would be less of a spinoff, it would be more us using House to launch it. It would be an independent world. A character out of the House mold, but definitely different."


Shore said that we can expect Michael Weston -- which is funny that that's the same name as Jeffrey Donovan's character on Burn Notice, only that character's name is spelled Westen -- to appear early in the new season.

According to Shore, "House is constantly sending people to break into people's homes, and he does it the right way in one episode. It's a character that only House could love."

Finally, Shore revealed that he wants to do this kind of story because... "I've always loved The Rockford Files." Hmm, Rockford. Interesting. Who could Shore cast in a role that has the charm of James Garner's Jim Rockford and the irascibility of Hugh Laurie's Gregory House?

I would have no trouble tuning in to watch a detective series in The Rockford Files tradition -- which is what Magnum, P.I. was inspired by -- and with David Shore behind the creation, I have faith the show would be something worth watching. There really aren't many detective shows on TV right now, what with all the procedurals and forensics. I could get psyched about this. (Speaking of which, I love the Psych detectives.)