Hugh Laurie
Dr. Gregory House
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- 1. Pilot Nov 16, 2004
- Dr. House and his team try to save the life of a kindergarten teacher.
- 2. Paternity Nov 23, 2004
- Dr. House and the team think a teenage lacrosse player has multiple sclerosis.
- 3. Occam's Razor Nov 30, 2004
- A collegian collapses, and House and his team scramble to figure out why.
House (also called House, M.D.) is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004, to May 21, 2012.
House is a drama mystery show starring Hugh Laurie as an antisocial doctor who solves complex cases with his team. IMDb provides ratings, reviews, cast, episodes, videos, photos, trivia and more for this popular TV series.
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Conception
In 2004, Shore, Attanasio and Jacobs, pitched the show (untitled at the time) to Fox as a CSI-style medical detective program, a hospital whodunit in which the doctors investigated symptoms and their causes. Attanasio was inspired to develop a medical procedural drama by The New York Times Magazine column, "Diagnosis" written by physician Lisa Sanders, an attendingphysician at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Fox bought the series, though the network's then-president, Gail Berman, told the creative t...
Production team
Bryan Singer directed the pilot episode and the third episode, Occam's Razor. Housewas a co-production of Heel and Toe Films, David Shore's Shore Z Productions, and Bryan Singer's Bad Hat Harry Production in association with Universal Network Television for Fox. Attanasio, Jacobs, Shore and Singer, were executive producers of the program for its entirety. Lawrence Kaplow, Peter Blake, and Thomas L. Moran joined the staff as writers at the beginning of the first season after the making of the...
Casting
At first, the producers were looking for a "quintessentially American person" to play the role of House. Bryan Singer in particular felt there was no way he was going to hire a non-American actor for the role. At the time of the casting session, Hugh Laurie was in Namibia filming the movie Flight of the Phoenix. He assembled an audition tape in a hotel bathroom, the only place with enough light, and apologized for its appearance (which Singer compared to a "bin Laden video"). Laurie improvise...
Gregory House, M.D., often construed as a misanthropic medical genius, heads a team of diagnostic fellowsat the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Most episodes revolve around the diagnosis of a primary patient and start with a cold open precredits scene set outside the hospital, showing events ending with the onset of the patien...
Main article List of characters 1. Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie): Infectious Disease Specialist, Nephrologist, Head of Department of Diagnostic Medicine 2. Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein): Endocrinologist, Dean of Medicine 3. Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard): Head of Department of Oncology 4. Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps): Neurologist, Diagn...
Critical reception
House received largely positive reviews on its debut; the series was considered a bright spot amid Fox's schedule, which at the time was largely filled with reality shows. Season 1 holds a Metacritic score of 75 out of 100, based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Matt Roush of TV Guide said that the program was an "uncommon cure for the common medical drama". New York Daily News critic David Bianculli applauded the "high caliber of acting and script". The Onion's "A.V....
U.S. television ratings
In its first season, House ranked twenty-fourth among all television series and was the ninth most popular primetime program among women. Aided by a lead-in from the widely popular American Idol, the following three seasons of the program each ranked in the top ten among all viewers. House reached its peak Nielsen ratings in its third season, attracting an average of 19.4 million viewers per episode. According to Jacobs, the production team was surprised that the show garnered such a large au...
Awards and honors
Main article List of House awards House has received many awards and award nominations. In 57th Primetime Emmy Awards, 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards and 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards Laurie was nominated for an Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series The Emmy board also nominated House for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, but t...
In 2008, House was distributed in a total of 66 countries. With an audience of over 81.8 million worldwide, it was the most watched television show on the globe and far surpassed the viewership figures of the leading TV dramas the previous two years (CSI and CSI: Miami). The following year, it placed second in the world after CSI. House episodes pr...
For a charity auction, T-shirts bearing the phrase "Everybody Lies" were sold for a limited time starting on April 23, 2007, on Housecharitytees.com. Proceeds from sales of those shirts and others with the phrase "Normal's Overrated" went to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). House cast and crew members also regularly attend fundraiser...
Official House Wikiat archive.isDr. House and his team try to uncover the reason a 10-year-old has a heart attack while House suspects one of his team is selling him out to Vogler.
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