The ensemble cast on the Hugh Laurie medical drama “House” is about to get smaller.
Actress Jennifer Morrison, who has played Dr. Alison Cameron since the series started in 2003, is leaving – and not by choice. Morrison will leave the series in the first half of the sixth season, which has just begun airing in the US, as part of what the producers call a “creative decision”.
The move has shocked and angered many fans, with Morrison’s character having taken a back seat for the last two years, since Cameron and her now husband Dr Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) quit their jobs as House’s interns to work in other areas of the hospital, and producers had been promising that the new season would see the pair reintegrated into the team. While that seems to be the case with Chase, Cameron is instead being written out in a seemingly permanent manner.
Producer Katie Jacobs is denying that Morrison has been fired altogether and not ruling out the character’s return at some point in the future. “The fact is, we still don’t know how the season is going to end for Cameron or for Jennifer.”
But Morrison is definitely leaving after episode nine of the sixth season and many fans are unconvinced and unhappy, feeling that she has been ill-treated by a show she helped to make a success in the first place, having been reduced to little more than an extra for the last two seasons and now dumped just when it appeared she was starting to gain more screen time.
