Foreman eventually found a role middle-managing the three new docs, but Cameron and Chase were relegated to a few lines per show — and were almost never together. ”We were just trying to excite ourselves,” explains Jacobs of the experiment, but ”at the same time maybe we should have been smarter about the effects it would have.” The effect was a message-board backlash, with many fans complaining that the telegenic duo had virtually disappeared.
Complicating the situation for Morrison and Spencer were rumors that their characters were sidelined to give the actors time to adjust after their real-life breakup in August 2007, a few weeks before House’s season 4 premiere. ”[Jesse and I] were still together when they made the decision” to hire a new team, refutes Morrison. The rumors might never have gained traction but for the writers’ strike: Given the forced three month break, several plotlines — including episodes that would have featured Cameron and Chase’s budding onscreen romance — had to be dropped. ”There was a whole stretch of story lines that had to shift and then got lost,” says Morrison. ”We went from thinking we were going to have eight more episodes to explore how Cameron’s world was going, how Chase’s world was going, how Foreman was feeling about [the new team]…. All of a sudden, we needed a big finale.’
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Title: House M.D. 
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Title: Table for Three 
