Between the House/Cuddy kiss, the train wreck that is Thirteen, and the rekindling of the House/Wilson bromance, things are really getting good on House these days. The show has some big things planned for sweeps and beyond, and executive producer Katie Jacobs kindly hopped on a conference call with reporters last week to help sort out some of the things to come. Here are some highlights of what she shared:

• On the "unorthodox" love affair of House and Cuddy: "You’re right to say "unorthodox," and at the same time, I think it’s probably more real than any other love relationship on TV insofar as relationships are complicated. House and Cuddy work together. There’s obvious chemistry; there’s obvious respect, but there’s barbs, and there’s jousting. It is unorthodox and, at the very same time, incredibly real."
• On how their story will unfold: "I don't think that it will go on in a predictable, 'OK, now everything is shifting, and this is the story' kind of way. Hopefully, we explore it in a very House-ian way, which is, it's there, and now, what do we do? But, don't expect to see dates and they go to the movies. It's not going to unfold like that."
• On the chemistry between House and Cuddy, House and Cameron, and more: "I certainly hope we go for as much chemistry as possible. I think what it is, is House, as a character, has a hole, has an emptiness. What most of these women want to do is somehow see if they can ease his pain because everybody knows on the inside, or they think on the inside, that there’s a lot of pain and if they can somehow be the one to make House smooth out those rough edges, wouldn’t it be sweet? It's mostly going to be up to House. He could have a relationship with any one of them, but he's got to be in the mind space and be at a place where he's ready to make himself vulnerable. I don't see him as being at that place entirely at the moment. At times, we’ve seen glimpses of his getting closer."

For more from Jacobs (including some hints about upcoming plotlines — consider yourself warned), just read more

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to my picks below, you can also add Priceless starring Audrey Tautou and Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson to your queue.

Wall-E
Squee! Pixar's Wall-E is out on DVD! The more I think about this movie, the more I'm impressed with what the creators managed to pull off. First of all, they managed to make a desolate, post-apocalyptic Earth seem like the ideal setting for a love story that will give anyone with a pulse the warm fuzzies. They also managed to give a robot that can't really speak the most adorable, expressive puppy-dog eyes this world has ever known. It's quite the feat, and if you weren't able to catch this gem in the theater, you might want to bring it home ASAP.

Even if you did see this on the big screen, the DVD has plenty of special features that have me pretty excited as well. They include: several all-new animated shorts, deleted scenes, a ride through space with Wall-E, and a feature on the history of Pixar.

Two more coming up, so read more

Welcome back, Twilight fans, for part two of my interview with Rob Pattinson, who plays dreamboat vampire Edward Cullen in the upcoming film adaptation of the popular book. Several of you noticed in the first part of my interview that his answers about the movie and his character were perceptive and articulate. Indeed, I found him to be extremely thoughtful and level-headed, considering he's at the center of such a major project.

Did I mention that his accent is so charming it borders on dangerous? Um, anyway, on with the interview:

You’ve done fantasy before. Do you think it’s important to keep these characters grounded in reality?
Yeah, definitely. I definitely tried to humanize every element of being a vampire. I mean, luckily, Stephenie [Meyer] didn't have vampire lore in the book. It's very specific, and the characters in the book even kind of joke about the mythology about vampires, and so you can kind of get another element of realism there. And Edward, you know, there are scenes in the film and obviously in the book where he's breaking down the kind of all-out clichés to Bella and says, like, "No, I know about all these kind of fictional things and they don't do this and they don't do that. This is what it is, it's simple, I have this problem, and there’s nothing else really to it." It’s just a monkey on your back. So yeah, I think it's important to keep it grounded. I think it also makes it more frightening, and that’s what I liked about Catherine [Hardwicke] directing it, because I went into it thinking it's going to be shot with this kind of realism and grittiness, and I thought that could work for this story. I mean, it's trying to reinvent the vampire genre a bit.

Lots more after the jump, including a bit about his vampire sparkle, so read more

• Fox is new with House and Fringe
• NBC is new with Biggest Loser: Families and Law & Order: SVU
• CBS is new with NCIS, The Mentalist, and Without a Trace
• ABC is new with Dancing With the Stars Performance Recap Show, Dancing With the Stars, and Eli Stone
• The CW is new with 90210 and Privileged
• Bravo is new with The Real Housewives of Atlanta
• FX is new with The Shield
• MTV is new with Paris Hilton's My BFF
• VH1 has Rock of Love Charm School with Sharon Osbourne and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
• Comedy Central has repeats of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report
• Late-night highlights include Larry the Cable Guy, Chris Matthews, and Adele on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC; Carla Bruni Sarkozy, Jack Hanna, and Cold Hard Cash on Late Show with David Letterman on CBS; Kate Walsh on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC; Jeff Corwin, Debra Messing, and John Hodgman on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC; and Kevin Bacon, Sarah Shahi, and the Bacon Brothers on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS