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Chi McBride, who starred on Fox’s “Boston Public,” is returning to the network for a guest-starring arc on “House.”

McBride has signed on for five episodes of the first-year drama, where he’ll play a wealthy businessman whose nine-figure donation to the hospital allows him to become chairman of its board. Once there, he decides Dr. House’s (Hugh Laurie) diagnostic team is a drain on the hospital’s resources.

Naturally, that doesn’t go over too well with the misanthropic House, who disdains hospital higher-ups even more than he does patients. McBride’s episodes are set to begin airing in March.

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Edited by Cara DiPasquale ([email protected]) and Kris Karnopp ([email protected])