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House
Logo
Created byDavid Shore
StarringHugh Laurie
Lisa Edelstein
Omar Epps
Robert Sean Leonard
Jennifer Morrison
Jesse Spencer
Peter Jacobson
Olivia Wilde
Opening theme"Teardrop" by
Massive Attack
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes110 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersPaul Attanasio
Katie Jacobs
David Shore
Bryan Singer
Thomas L. Moran
Russel Friend
Garrett Lerner
Hugh Laurie
Running timeApprox. 43 minutes
Original release
NetworkFOX
ReleaseNovember 16, 2004 –
present

House, also known as House, M.D., is an American television medical drama that debuted on the FOX network on November 16, 2004. The program was co-created by David Shore and Paul Attanasio; Shore is officially credited by FOX as creator. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House (British actor Hugh Laurie), an unconventional medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH). The show's premise originated with Attanasio, who was inspired to create a medical procedural show by a New York Times Magazine column, "Diagnosis". Shore was primarily responsible for conceiving of the title character. The show's executive producers include Shore, Attanasio, Attanasio's business partner Katie Jacobs, and film director Bryan Singer. Initially, Singer wanted an American to play House, but Laurie's audition convinced him that a foreign actor could play the role. The character has similarities to Sherlock Holmes; both are forensic geniuses, musicians, drug users, aloof, and largely friendless. The show is filmed in Century City and takes place in New Jersey.

Dr. House often clashes with his boss, hospital administrator and Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), and his diagnostic team, because his theories about a patient's illness are often based on subtle or controversial insights. House's only true friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), head of the Department of Oncology. House's original diagnostic team consisted of Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), and Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps). At the end of the third season, this team is disbanded. From forty applicants, House gradually selects a new team, consisting of Dr. Foreman, Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde), Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn). Along with Foreman, the other members of the original team still appear in the series: Chase is a surgeon and Cameron is the department head of the emergency room.

House is critically acclaimed and has high viewership ratings. During the 2007–08 United States television season, the series was the most-watched scripted program. It ranked seventh in ratings, trailing only various iterations of American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.[1] The show has also received several awards and nominations, including a Peabody Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2008, Shore announced that a spin-off series, centering on Lucas Douglas, a recurring character introduced in season 5, would be created. House has ended its fifth season and has been renewed for a sixth, due to start screening sometime in September 2009.

Production

Conception

"We knew the network was looking for procedurals, and Paul [Attanasio] came up with this medical procedural that was like a cop procedural. The suspects were the germs. But I quickly began to realize that we needed a character element. I mean, germs don't have motives."

David Shore to Writer's Guild Magazine. [2]

In 2004, co-creators David Shore and Paul Attanasio, along with Attanasio's business partner Katie Jacobs, pitched the show (untitled at the time) to Fox Broadcasting Company ("FOX") as a CSI-style medical detective program,[3] a hospital whodunit in which the doctors investigated the causes of symptoms.[4] Attanasio was inspired to create a medical procedural drama by the New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis".[5] FOX bought the show on the condition that there would be no "white coats going down the hallway".[6]

After FOX picked up the show, the idea of a curmudgeonly title character was added.[4] As the writers explored the possibilities of such a role, the program concept became less of a procedural and more focused upon the title character.[7] Once the character was named "House", the show's working title, Chasing Zebras, Circling the Drain, was replaced by that name.[8]

Shore traced the concept for the title character to an experience as a patient at a teaching hospital.[9] Shore recalled that "I knew, as soon as I left the room, they would be mocking me relentlessly [for my cluelessness] and I thought that it would be interesting to see a character who actually did that before they left the room."[10] Another inspiration for Shore was the work of Berton Roueché, a New Yorker staff writer who chronicled intriguing medical cases between 1940 and 1990.[4]

A central part of the show's premise was that the main character would be disabled in some way.[11] House was originally to be confined to a wheelchair, but FOX rejected this idea. (Jacobs later expressed her gratitude for the network's insistence that the character be reimagined—putting him on his feet added a crucial physical dimension).[7] The writers ultimately chose to give House a damaged leg arising from an incorrect diagnosis, which would require him to use a cane and cause him pain that would lead to a narcotic addiction.[11]

References to Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes serves as an inspiration for the series.

Similarities between Gregory House and the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle, appear throughout the series.[12] Shore explained that he was always a Holmes fan, and found the character's indifference to his clients unique.[10] The resemblance is evident in House's reliance on psychology in problem-solving, even where it might not seem obviously applicable, and his reluctance to accept cases he finds uninteresting.[13] In almost every episode, his investigatory method is to logically eliminate diagnoses as they are proved impossible; Holmes uses a similar method.[14] Both characters play instruments (House plays the piano, the guitar, and the harmonica; Holmes, the violin) and take drugs (House is addicted to Vicodin; Holmes uses cocaine recreationally). House's relationship with Dr. James Wilson echoes that between Holmes and his confidant, Dr. John Watson.[8] Robert Sean Leonard, who portrays Wilson, said that House and his character—whose name is very similar to Watson's—were originally intended to work together much as Holmes and Watson do; in his view, House's team has assumed that aspect of the Watson role.[15] Shore said that House's name itself is meant as "a subtle homage" to Holmes.[8][16] The number of House's apartment, 221B, is a reference to Holmes's street address.[13]

Individual episodes of the series contain additional references to the Sherlock Holmes tales. The main patient in the pilot episode is named Rebecca Adler, after Irene Adler, a character in the first Holmes short story.[17] In the season 2 finale, House is shot by a crazed gunman credited as "Moriarty", the name of Holmes's nemesis.[18] In the season 4 episode "It's a Wonderful Lie", House receives a "second edition Conan Doyle" as a Christmas gift.[19] In the season 5 episode "Joy to the World", Wilson gives House a book by Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes,[8] as a Christmas present. Wilson includes a message that reads, "Greg, It made me think of you", and names an Irene Adler as the alleged sender before taking credit.[20]

Production team

House is a co-production of Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions, and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with the NBC Universal Television Group for FOX.[21][22] Paul Attanasio and Katie Jacobs, the heads of Heel and Toe Films; David Shore, the head of Shore Z Productions; and Bryan Singer, the head of Bad Hat Harry Productions, have been executive producers of the program since its inception;[9] they were joined by Thomas L. Moran after the broadcast of the pilot episode.[23] Russel Friend and Garret Lerner have been executive producers from the second season onward.[24] From the start of House's fifth season, lead actor Hugh Laurie has also been an executive producer.[25] Lisa Sanders, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, is a technical advisor. She writes the "Diagnosis" column that inspired House's premise.[26] According to Shore, "three different doctors...check everything we do".[27] Bobbin Bergstrom, a registered nurse, is the program's on-set medical advisor.[27]

Casting

"It wasn't a massive move when I first considered [doing House]. What usually happens, is you do a pilot and of the very few picked up, only about a quarter go to a second year. So I thought I'll have three fun weeks. I never dreamt I'd be here three-and-a-half-years later."

Hugh Laurie[28]

At first, producer Bryan Singer wanted an American actor to play the role of House; according to Singer, the more foreign actors he watched audition for the part, the surer he was that an American should be cast.[29] At the time of the casting session, actor Hugh Laurie was in Namibia filming the movie Flight of the Phoenix.[30] Laurie assembled an audition tape in a hotel bathroom, the only place with enough light,[29] and apologized for its appearance (which Singer compared to a "bin Laden video").[31] Laurie improvised, using an umbrella for a cane.[32] Singer was impressed by his performance and commented on how well the "American actor" was able to grasp the character.[10] Although better-known actors such as Denis Leary, Rob Morrow, and Patrick Dempsey were considered for the part, Shore, Jacobs and Attanasio were as impressed as Singer and cast Laurie as House.[33] Laurie, whose father, Ran Laurie, was a doctor, said he felt guilty for "being paid more to become a fake version of my own father."[29] He later stated that he initially thought that the show was about Dr. James Wilson. The script referred to Wilson as a doctor with boyish looks. Laurie assumed that Wilson was the central character and that House was a supporting character, until he received the full script of the pilot episode.[34][35]

Leonard had also received the script for CBS's Numb3rs.

As well as the script for House, actor Robert Sean Leonard had received the script for the CBS show Numb3rs.[36] Leonard thought the Numb3rs script was "kind of cool" and planned to audition for the show.[36] However, Leonard decided that the character he was up for, Charlie Eppes, was in too many scenes; he later observed, "The less I work, the happier I am."[36] He believed that his House audition was not particularly good, but that his lengthy friendship with Singer helped win him the part of Dr. Wilson.[36] Leonard said that he had some familiarity with the medical profession, because his father-in-law was a doctor.[37]

Singer had enjoyed Lisa Edelstein's portrayal of a prostitute on The West Wing, and sent her a copy of the pilot script.[38] Edelstein was attracted to the program's "smart writing", and was cast as Dr. Lisa Cuddy.[38] Australian actor Jesse Spencer's agent suggested that he audition for the role of Dr. Robert Chase. Spencer believed the program would be similar in style to General Hospital, but changed his mind after reading the scripts.[39] After he was cast, he persuaded the producers to turn the character into an Australian.[40] Omar Epps, who plays Dr. Eric Foreman, was inspired by his earlier portrayal of a troubled intern on the NBC medical drama ER.[41] Jennifer Morrison felt that her audition for the part of Dr. Allison Cameron was "the worst she had ever done".[42] However, before her audition, Singer had watched some of her performances, including on Dawson's Creek, and already wanted to cast her in the role.[42]

At the end of season 3, House dismisses Chase, while Foreman and Cameron resign.[43] House must then recruit a new diagnostic team, for which he identifies seven finalists. The producers originally planned to recruit two new full-time actors, with Foreman, who returns in season 4's fifth episode, bringing the team back up to three members; ultimately, the decision was made to add three new regular cast members.[44] During the middle of the fourth season, the show's writers dismissed a single candidate per episode; as a result, neither the producers nor the cast knew who was going to be hired until the last minute.[45] In the season's ninth episode, House's new team is revealed: Foreman is joined by doctors Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn),[46] Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson),[47] and Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde).[48][49][50] Kutner left the program in season 5 after actor Kal Penn took a position in the White House Office of Public Liaison.[51] The candidates rejected by House have not returned to the show, with the exception of Amber "Cut-throat Bitch" Volakis (Anne Dudek), who reappeared as Wilson's girlfriend.[52]

Filming style and locations

The back entrance of Frist Campus Center

House is often filmed using the "walk and talk" filming technique (also called "pedeconferencing"),[6][53] popularized on television by series such as St. Elsewhere, ER, Sports Night and The West Wing.[54] The technique involves the use of tracking shots, showing two or more characters walking between locations while talking.[54] Executive producer Katie Jacobs said that the show frequently uses the technique because "when you put a scene on the move, it’s a...way of creating an urgency and an intensity".[6]

The locations used for exterior shots of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital are Princeton University's Frist Campus Center,[a] UCLA and the University of Southern California.[55] Episode filming takes place on the FOX lot in Century City.[27] (The pilot episode was filmed in Canada.[31]) Part of House's sixth season will be filmed at the abandoned Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, which will become the set of the fictional Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital.[56]

Opening sequence

The show's title is shown on a title card with an MRI of a head overlaid with an image of Dr. House's face taken from the pilot episode.[57] The opening sequence uses various types of images to accompany each cast member's name. The names are shown next to, or superimposed upon, old-fashioned anatomical drawings, X-ray images of the human body or graphic design images of body parts. For instance, Epps's name is superimposed upon a rib cage X-ray; Spencer's name appears next to an anatomical drawing of a spine; and Edelstein's name appears next to a visual effects–produced graphic of nerve axons. The producers wanted to use images of a cane and a Vicodin bottle with Morrison's name, but FOX disagreed. Instead, her title card shows an aerial shot of rowers on Princeton University's Lake Carnegie.[58] Jacobs said that most of the backgrounds have no specific meaning; however, the final image—the text "Created by David Shore" superimposed upon a human neck—connotes that Shore is "the brain of the show."[58] The sequence was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2005.[59]

In North America, and some other countries, the series' opening theme is "Teardrop" by Massive Attack.[60][61] "Teardrop"'s lyrics are sung by Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins; however, the opening credit sequence of House uses only the instrumental beginning and ending sections of the song.[62] An acoustic version of "Teardrop", performed by José González, with lyrics, is heard as background music during the final episode of the fourth season.[63]

Series overview

See also: List of House episodes

"Anytime you try to summarize a show in one word, you sound like an ass. It's about truth."

David Shore[64]

Gregory House, M.D., is a misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.[57] Most episodes revolve around the diagnosis of a primary patient and start with a pre-credit sequence set outside the hospital, showing events leading up to the onset of the patient's symptoms.[65] The typical episode follows the team in their attempts to diagnose and treat the patient's illness,[65][66] attempts that often fail until the patient's condition is critical.[65] House's world-renowned department typically treats patients who receive incorrect diagnoses, causing complications.[67] House habitually rejects cases that he does not find interesting.[68] To a degree greater than other hospital-set shows, the narrative focuses on the characters rather than the hospital environment.[3]

The team employs the differential diagnosis method,[66] with House guiding the deliberations. Using a whiteboard, House writes down and eliminates possible etiologies with a marker.[69] The patient is usually misdiagnosed during the episode and treated with medications accordingly.[66] This usually causes further complications, but eventually helps House and his team diagnose the patient correctly, as the nature of the complications often provides valuable new evidence. House usually arrives at the correct diagnosis in mid-conversation or is inspired by a remark made by another character.[66] Diagnoses range from relatively common to very rare diseases.

Often ailments cannot be easily diagnosed because patients have lied about their symptoms, circumstances, or personal histories. House frequently mutters, "Everybody lies", or proclaims during the team's deliberations, "The patient is lying" or "The symptoms never lie".[13] This assumption guides House's decisions and diagnoses.[13] Because his theories about a patient's illness are often based on an epiphany or controversial insights, he often has trouble obtaining permission from his superior, hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy, to perform medical procedures he considers necessary.[70] This is especially the case when the proposed procedures involve a high degree of risk or are ethically questionable. There are often disagreements between House and his team, especially Dr. Allison Cameron, whose standards of medical ethics are more conservative than those of the other characters.[71]

House is required to treat patients in the hospital's walk-in clinic in order to improve his bedside manner.[72] His grudging fulfillment of this duty, or his creative methods of avoiding it, constitute a recurring subplot.[65] During clinic duty, House confounds patients with unwelcome insights into their personal lives, eccentric prescriptions, and unorthodox treatments. However, after seeming to be inattentive to their complaints, he regularly impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses.[73] The realizations that occur as he deals with some of the simple cases in the clinic often inspire him to solve the main case.[66]

"It's not a show about addiction, but you can't throw something like this into the mix and not expect it to be noticed and commented on, there have been references to the amount of his consumption increasing over time. It's becoming less and less useful a tool for dealing with his pain, and it's something we're going to continue to deal with, continue to explore."

Shore on House's Vicodin addiction[74]

A significant plot element is House's use of Vicodin to manage pain, caused by an infarction in his quadriceps muscle some years earlier, which also forces him to use a cane.[75] In the first season episode "Detox", House admits he is addicted to Vicodin, but says he does not have a problem because the pills "let me do my job, and they take away my pain."[b] His addiction has led his colleagues, Cuddy and Dr. James Wilson, to encourage him to go to drug rehabilitation several times.[76] When he has no access to Vicodin, or when he believes that Vicodin alone is not enough to relieve his pain, he occasionally self-medicates with other narcotic pain relievers such as oxycodone, morphine, and, once, methadone.[77][76]

Cast and characters

Main article: List of House characters
For casting information, see above
The original cast of the show; from left to right: Wilson, Cuddy, Chase, House, Cameron and Foreman.

In House's first three seasons, six of the main actors received star billing. All of them play doctors who work at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.[57] Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), the title character, heads the Department of Diagnostic Medicine. Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), House's one true friend, is the head of the Department of Oncology. Dr. Lisa Cuddy, House's boss, is the hospital's chief administrator and dean of medicine. House's original team of diagnosticians consists of Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), a neurologist; Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), an intensivist; and Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), an immunologist and internist.

In the season 3 episode "Family", Foreman announces his resignation, telling House, "I don't want to turn into you."[c] During the season 3 finale, House tells Chase that he has either learned everything he can, or nothing at all, and dismisses him from the team.[43] Cameron subsequently resigns, having developed an affection for Chase.[43][78] This leaves House without a team for the season 4 premiere.[79]

With orders from Cuddy to recruit a new team, House considers forty doctors.[80][81][82] Season 4's early episodes focus on House's selection process.[80] After paring the group of forty applicants down to seven finalists—seemingly at random—he creates a reality TV–style elimination contest. Assisted by Foreman, who returns to the department after his dismissal from another hospital,[83] House uses the finalists' performance in diagnostic cases to choose who will fill the three open positions on his new team.[84] House ultimately selects Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), a former plastic surgeon; Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), a sports medicine specialist; and Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde), an internist.[85] Former team members Chase and Cameron still appear regularly on the show in different roles at the PPTH.[82] While Penn, Jacobson, and Wilde played central characters, they did not receive star billing. They were credited under an "Also Starring" rubric, with their names appearing after the opening sequence.[86]

In March 2009, E! reported that one main character would die during season 5.[87] In the episode "Simple Explanation", Kutner is found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Because Kutner left no note, House suspects foul play, though the death is accepted by the other characters as a suicide.[88][89]

Recurring characters

Every season of House has featured a recurring guest star, who appears in a multi-episode story arc.[90] In the first season, Chi McBride appeared in five episodes as Edward Vogler,[91] the billionaire owner of a pharmaceutical company who donated $100 million to the PPTH.[92] Shore said that Vogler was an attempt to introduce a villain, but as the series progressed he realized that the "boss-as-villain idea [did not] really work for the show".[13] In the final two episodes of the first season, and seven season 2 episodes, Sela Ward appeared as Stacy Warner, House's former girlfriend.[13] She wanted House to treat her husband Mark Warner (Currie Graham), whom House diagnosed with porphyria in the season 1 finale.[93] Stacy and House became closer to each other, but in "Need to Know", House tells Stacy to go back to Mark, which devastates her.[94]

David Morse had a recurring role during the third season as Detective Michael Tritter, a police detective, who tries to extract an apology from House, who left Tritter in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum.[95] When House refuses to apologize, Tritter forces House to attend rehab and sues him. When the case reaches court, Cuddy lies for House and the case is dismissed. House, however, is sentenced to spend one night in jail for contempt of court and finishes his rehabilitation under the influence of Vicodin.[76] Although the dwindling list of candidates for House's medical team became the main recurring characters of the fourth season, one of the losing candidates, Amber Volakis (played by Anne Dudek), appeared throughout the season, having started a relationship with Wilson.[96] Although her character died in the season finale, her character returned as a hallucination during season 5, starting with the episode "Saviors".[97] Michael Weston was the main recurring actor of season 5, appearing in three episodes as private investigator Lucas Douglas.[98] House initially hired Douglas to spy on Wilson, but House later pays him to research into his team members and Cuddy.[99]

Reception

Critical reception

Laurie gained positive responses for his portrayal of House.

House's pilot gained several positive reviews. TV Guide's Matt Roush said that House was an "...uncommon cure for the common medical drama".[100] Critics of The A.V. Club called House the "...nastiest" black comedy from FOX since the 1996 short-lived television series Profit.[101] Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle described the show as a mixture of CSI:Crime Scene Investigation and ER.[102] The New York Magazine called the series "...medical TV at its most satisfying and basic", and stated that the cast consisted of "...[professional] actors playing doctors who come to care about their patients",[103] while The Boston Globe's Matthew Gilbert appreciated that the episode did not sugarcoat the flaws of the characters to assuage viewers' fears about "HMO factories".[104] In a recap of the show's pilot, Variety's Brian Lowry said that House was a "A well-made medical hour with an intriguing star".[105]

Critics considered the series to be a bright spot among FOX's otherwise reality show-based broadcast schedule,[106][107][108] and reacted positively to the character of Gregory House.[109][110] Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him "...the most electrifying character to hit television in years".[111] With Barbara Wellner, entertainment vice chair of the Television Academy activities committee, calling him "...the most terminally malcontent television doctor since Ben Casey".[12]

Critics have compared Dr. House to Adrian Monk, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe and Perry Cox.[112][113][114] In 2005, House was selected as the ninth most popular primetime program among women;[115] that same year, Laurie appeared on the cover of TV Guide as "TV's Sexiest Man".[115] In 2008, House was voted second sexiest television doctor ever, behind Dr. Doug Ross (George Clooney), from ER.[116][117] Hugh Laurie's performance of the character was praised by critics.[113][118] San Francisco Chronicle's Tim Goodman said "Laurie is in short, about the only reason to watch House".[102] Gabrielle Donnelly of The Daily Mail said that because of Laurie's complex personality he was "...perfectly cast" for the role of House.[117]

Critic top ten lists

Since its first season, House has been included in various top ten lists; these are listed below in order of rank.

U.S. television ratings

Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.

Since its premiere, House has been consistently popular, attracting average viewing figures of 13.3 million viewers per episode during its first season,[123] 17.3 million viewers during its second season,[124] and 19.4 million viewers for its third season.[125] The show's fourth season was ranked seventh, with an average Nielsen rating of 16.2 million viewers per episode.[1] According to Jacobs, the crew was surprised that the show attracted such high ratings.[126] The most-watched episode of House during its first five seasons is the season four episode "Frozen",[127] the episode that followed Super Bowl XLII.[128][129] It attracted slightly more than 29 million viewers.[130] House was ranked third for the week, equal to that week's seventh season episode of American Idol (also on FOX) and exceeded only by the Super Bowl game and the Super Bowl post-game show.[131] Below is a table of the seasonal rankings, based on average total viewers per episode, of House on FOX:

Season Episodes Timeslot (ET) Season premiere Season finale TV season Rank Viewers
(in millions)
1 22 Tuesday 9:00 p.m. November 16, 2004 May 24, 2005 2004–2005 #24 13.3[123]
2 24 Tuesday 9:00 p.m. September 13, 2005 May 23, 2006 2005–2006 #10 17.3[124]
3 24 Tuesday 8:00 p.m. (2006)
Tuesday 9:00 p.m. (2006–2007) 		September 5, 2006 May 29, 2007 2006–2007 #7 19.4[125]
4 16 Tuesday 9:00 p.m. (2007–2008)
Monday 9:00 p.m. (2008) 		September 25, 2007 May 19, 2008 2007–2008 #7 16.2[1]
5 24 Tuesday 8:00 p.m. (2008)
Monday 8:00 p.m. (2009) 		September 16, 2008 May 11, 2009 2008–2009 TBA TBA

Awards and honors

Main article: List of House (TV series) awards and nominations

House has redefined the medical television show. No longer a world where an idealized doctor has all the answers or a hospital where gurneys race down the hallways, House's focus is on the pharmacological--and the intellectual demands of being a doctor. The trial-and-error of new medicine skillfully expands the show beyond the format of a classic procedural, and at the show's heart, a brilliant but flawed physician is doling out the prescriptions--a fitting symbol for modern medicine.

— Judges of the American Film Institute on the show's 2005 win.[132]

House has received many awards and nominations. The show received a 2005 Peabody Award for what the Peabody board called an "...unorthodox lead character – a misanthropic diagnostician" and for "...cases fit for a medical Sherlock Holmes," both of which helped make House "...the most distinctive new doctor drama in a decade."[133] The American Film Institute (AFI), included House in their 2005 list of 10 Television Programs of the Year.[132]

The show has been nominated for various Golden Globe Awards. Hugh Laurie has received the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama in 2006 and again in 2007.[134][135] It was not until 2008 that the show was first nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Drama, however, the award was won by Mad Men.[136] House received nominations in the same two categories the following year, but failed to win any.[137][138]

House was also honored by the Screen Actors Guild, awarding Laurie the 2007, and 2009 awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series.[139][140] In 2005, 2007, and 2008, Laurie was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.[141] The Emmy board also nominated House for Outstanding Drama Series in 2006, 2007 and 2008, but the show has not yet won the award.[142][143][144]

For the first season episode "Three Stories", creator David Shore won a writing Emmy in 2005[59][145] and the Humanitas Prize in 2006.[146] Writer Lawrence Kaplow won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his season two episode "Autopsy".[147]

Distribution

Country Broadcast channel
United States FOX
Canada GlobalTV[148]
United Kingdom Five (Seasons 1-4)
Sky1 (season 5)[149]
Australia Network Ten[150]
New Zealand TV3[151]
Ireland TV3[152]
Portugal TVI[153]

Episodes premiere on FOX in the United States and GlobalTV in Canada, which have identical schedules.[148] In the United Kingdom, the first four seasons were broadcast on Channel Five, but because of the network's increasingly crowded schedule, they were not able to find a timeslot for the show and sold the rights to Sky1. The show's British schedule is approximately one year behind its U.S. schedule.[149] The show also airs in Ireland on TV3, in Australia on Network Ten, in New Zealand on TV3, and in Portugal on TVI.[152][150][151][153]

Some episodes of the show are also available online; Amazon Video on Demand offers every episode from seasons one through five for $1.99 an episode.[154] Episodes from the first three seasons can also be purchased from the iTunes store for $1.99. However, NBC Universal (which partly produces the show) and Apple Inc. (which owns the iTunes store) had a disagreement in 2007, and therefore the fourth season was unavailable.[155][156] In a statement to the press, Apple claimed that NBC Universal wanted to drive up the price to $4.99, which Apple did not want.[157] Recent episodes can also be viewed on Hulu.com.[158] As of "Joy", the House page on the official FOX website offers season five episodes online, eight days after broadcast.[159]

DVD releases

The first four seasons of the show has been released on DVD, in Regions 1, 2 and 4. While its fifth season Regions 1 & 4 release dates have already been announced but with Region 1 DVDs on five discs,[160] its release in Region 2 is yet to be announced. Universal Home Entertainment announced plans to re-release the First Season DVD in Anamorphic Widescreen, as opposed to the original release which contained letterboxed widescreen.[161] It's unclear if the DVDs will be re-released in Regions 2 & 4, where the set is presented in 4:3 Fullscreen.[162][163]

Title Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
Season One
 August 30, 2005[164] February 27, 2006[165] July 12, 2006[166]
Season Two
 August 22, 2006[167] October 23, 2006[168] October 25, 2006[169]
Season Three
 August 21, 2007[170] November 19, 2007[171] September 19, 2007[172]
Season Four
 August 19, 2008[173] October 27, 2008[174] August 20, 2008[175]
Season Five
 August 25, 2009[160] TBA August 26, 2009[176]

Spin-off

In 2008, TV Guide's Michael Ausiello wrote that a private investigator introduced during House's fifth season would have his own show if the character was accepted by the audience.[98][177][178] In May 2008, IGN reported that this character would be portrayed by Michael Weston,[179] with The Hollywood Reporter saying that the character would be named Lucas Douglas and would be "...as intelligent but not as abrasive as Dr. House".[180][181] The rumors were confirmed by Entertainment Weekly[182] and Blog Critics.[24] In a late 2008 interview with The Star-Ledger, creator David Shore confirmed plans for a spin-off and said that it would be inspired by The Rockford Files.[183][184]

Merchandise

House M.D. Original Television Soundtrack was released on September 18, 2007, by Nettwerk.[185] The soundtrack includes full length versions of songs featured in House and previously unreleased songs especially recorded for the series.[186]

The Spanish game company Exelweiss designed a cellphone game for the show, which was released in Spanish and English.[187]

For a 2007 charity action, American Apparel 100% cotton T-shirts bearing the phrase "Everybody Lies" were sold in limited numbers from April 23 to April 30, 2007.[188] The shirts were sold for $19.95 apiece on Housecharitytees.com, and proceeds went to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).[188] House cast and crew members also regularly attend fundraisers for NAMI. Jacobs said that through their association with NAMI, the program's cast and crew hope to "...take some of the stigma off that illness".[189]

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Explanatory notes
  1. ^ McCosh Health Center, Princeton University's infirmary, is situated adjacent to Frist, and can be seen in some shots.[190]
  2. ^ In episode 11 of season 1, "Detox", House admits that he is addicted to Vicodin. At the end of the episode, Wilson and House are discussing how House has changed since the infarction in his leg and Wilson asks, "And everything's the leg, nothing's the pills, they haven't done a thing to you?" To which House responds, "They let me do my job, and they take away my pain."
  3. ^ Foreman tells House this at the end of episode 21 of season 3, "Family". He then tells House, "You'll save more people than I will, but I'll settle for killing less. Consider this my two weeks notice."
  4. ^ The Chicago Tribune lists, as well as the 2008 Chicago Sun-Times list, are not ranked—they consist of 10 shows in alphabetical order.
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