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| House | |
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| Also known as | House, M.D. |
| Format | Medical drama |
| Created by | David Shore |
| Starring | Hugh Laurie Lisa Edelstein Omar Epps Robert Sean Leonard Jennifer Morrison Jesse Spencer Peter Jacobson Kal Penn Olivia Wilde |
| Opening theme | "Teardrop" by Massive Attack "House End Credits"Due to rights and licensing issues, Teardrop cannot be used in some countries, so "House End Credits" replaces Teardrop as the opening theme in those countries. |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 82 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Katie Jacobs David Shore Paul Attanasio Bryan Singer Russel Friend Garrett Lerner Thomas L. MoranFOX Broadcasting Company: House, Show Info. FOX.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-01. |
| Running time | approx. 43 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | FOX |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV) |
| Original run | November 16, 2004 – present |
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| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
| | House, M.D. Portal |
House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning medical drama debuted on the FOX Network on November 16 2004. The series is currently the most watched scripted program on FOX and the second most watched FOX program overall, behind American Idol.
House stars English actor Hugh Laurie as the American title character Dr. Gregory House, a role for which he received the 2006 and 2007 Golden Globe Award and the 2007 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama. In February 2007, House was renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on September 25, 2007, in the United States and Canada.Fox renews \'House\', \'Bones\'Boedeker, Hal. "Fox announces premiere dates; "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" returns Aug. 30", Orlando Sentinel, 2007-07-10. Retrieved on 2007-07-10. With the end of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, new episodes of the show will resume on April 28, 2008.FOX: House, New Episodes Return!. Retrieved on 2008-02-20."House M.D.: Returning after Writer\'s Strike", February 20 2008.
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Gregory House, M.D., is a maverick medical genius, who heads a team of young diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Most episodes start with a cold open somewhere outside the hospital, showing the events leading to the onset of symptoms for that week\'s main patient. The episode follows the team in their attempts to diagnose and treat the patient\'s illness.
House\'s nationally-renowned department typically only sees patients who have failed to receive a correct diagnosis at other hospitals, so the cases tend to be exceptionally complex and subtle. Furthermore, House tends to resist accepting cases that he does not find interesting. The medical cases featured are often rare but realistic, and described by Andrew Holtz, the author of The Medical Science of House, M.D., as "a conglomeration of all the worst things that can happen to people from all over the world, crammed into one little community." Is House MD for real?. FOX News - The Final Cut.
The team arrives at diagnoses using the Socratic method and differential diagnosis, with House guiding the deliberations. House often discounts the information and opinions from his underlings, pointing out that their contributions have missed various relevant factors. The patient is usually misdiagnosed over the course of each episode and treated with medications appropriate to the misdiagnoses. This usually causes further complications in the patient, but in turn helps lead House and his team to the correct diagnosis by using the new symptoms.
Often the ailment cannot be easily deduced because the patient has lied about symptoms and circumstances. House frequently mutters, "Everybody lies," or proclaims during the team\'s deliberations: "The patient is lying," or "The symptoms never lie." Even when not stated explicitly, this assumption guides House\'s decisions and diagnoses.
Because House\'s theories about a patient\'s illness tend to be based on subtle or controversial insights, he often has trouble obtaining permission from his boss, hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy, to perform medical procedures he thinks are necessary; especially when the procedures themselves involve a high degree of risk or are ethically dubious.
Cuddy also requires House to spend time treating patients in the hospital\'s walk-in clinic; House\'s begrudging fulfillment of this duty is a recurring subplot on the show. During clinic duty, House confounds patients with an eccentric bedside manner and unorthodox treatments, but impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses after seemingly not paying attention. Realizations made during some of the simple problems House faces in the clinic often help him solve the main case.
Episodes frequently feature the practice of entering a patient\'s house with or without the owner\'s permission in order to search for clues that might suggest a certain pathology. The creator, David Shore, originally intended for the show to be a CSI-type show where the "germs were the suspects,"Frum, Linda (2006-03-14). Q&A with \'House\' creator David Shore. Macleans.ca. Rogers Media Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-01-02. but has since shifted much of the focus to the characters rather than concentrating solely on the environment.
Another large portion of the plot centers on House\'s abuse of Vicodin and other drugs to manage pain stemming from an infarction in his quadriceps muscle some years earlier, which causes him to walk with a cane. The pain and substance abuse act to increase many of his more objectionable character traits while not impairing his medical acumen, which leads him to often self-medicate.
House is in many respects a medical Sherlock Holmes. This resemblance is evident in various elements of the series\' plot, such as House\'s reliance on psychology to solve a case, his reluctance to accept cases he does not find interesting, his drug addiction, home address, playing of an instrument, relationship with Dr. James Wilson (a reference to Dr. John Watson), and his encounter with a crazed gunman credited as "Moriarty", which is the same name as Holmes\' nemesis. Also, series creator David Shore has said that Dr. House\'s name is meant as a "subtle homage" to Sherlock Holmes (i.e., "homes").Zap2it ? TV news ? Building \'House\' Is Hard WorkHouse and Holmes parallels - Radio Times, January 2006
During the first three seasons, Foreman, Cameron, and Chase were House\'s team members. At the end of season three, Foreman and Cameron resigned and Chase was fired by House. At the beginning of season four, House hired forty doctors which, as of "Games", he narrowed down to Taub, Kutner, and "Thirteen". Chase and Cameron are still employed at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, and as of "Guardian Angels", Foreman has been rehired by Cuddy back to House\'s team.
| Character | Actor | Positions | Fields |
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| Gregory House | Hugh Laurie |
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| Lisa Cuddy | Lisa Edelstein |
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| James Wilson | Robert Sean Leonard |
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| Eric Foreman | Omar Epps |
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| Allison Cameron | Jennifer Morrison |
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| Robert Chase | Jesse Spencer |
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| Chris Taub | Peter Jacobson |
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| Lawrence Kutner | Kal Penn |
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| "Thirteen" | Olivia Wilde |
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Below is a table of the seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of House on FOX. Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.
| Season | Timeslot | Season premiere | Season finale | TV season | Rank | Viewers (in millions) |
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| 1 | Tuesday 9:00 p.m. | November 16, 2004 | May 24, 2005 | 2004–2005 | #24 | 13.3"Final audience and ratings figures", May 27, 2005. |
| 2 | Tuesday 9:00 p.m. | September 13, 2005 | May 23, 2006 | 2005–2006 | #10 | 17.3"2005-06 primetime wrap", May 26, 2006. |
| 3 | Tuesday 8:00 p.m. (2006) Tuesday 9:00 p.m. (2006–2007) | September 5, 2006 | May 29, 2007 | 2006–2007 | #7 | 19.4"Hollywood Reporter: 2006-07 primetime wrap", May 25 2007. |
| 4 | Tuesday 9:00 p.m. (2007–2008) Monday 9:00 p.m. (2008) | September 25, 2007 | TBD | 2007–2008 | TBD | TBD |
The highest-rated episode of House, as of season four, is "Frozen", the episode that followed Super Bowl XLII; it attracted slightly more than 29 million viewers.Network Primetime Averages, week of January 28 - February 3, 2008 from Zap2It It was ranked third for the week, tied with that week\'s seventh season episode of American Idol (also on FOX) and outranked only by the Super Bowl game and the Super Bowl post-game show.
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It has been suggested that this section be split into a new article entitled List of awards for House (TV series). (Discuss) |
House 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."65th Annual Peabody Winners At the 2005 American Film Institute Awards, House was an official selection as TV Program of the Year. House was nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Drama but lost to Mad Men.HFPA 2008 Golden Globe Award Nominees and Winners For The Year Ended December 31, 2007. HFPA (2008). Retrieved on 2008-01-20.
Creator David Shore won a writing Emmy in 2005 for the first season episode "Three Stories."Guide to the 2005 Emmy Awards Retrieved 2006-11-05. Writer Lawrence Kaplow won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for his season two episode "Autopsy."
In 2005 and 2007, lead actor Hugh Laurie was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Drama in 2006 and again in 2007, when he also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series. Laurie was nominated for Best Actor in a Television Drama again for the 65th Golden Globe Awards but lost to Jon Hamm.
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House was also included in the top ten of critics\' best of television lists for 2005 in these publications: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Newsday, PopMatters and USA Today."Best of 2005", Metacritic.
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House was also included in the top ten of critics\' best of television lists for 2006 in these publications: Chicago Tribune and Newsday."Best of 2006", Metacritic.
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House is aired by the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a co-production of Heel and Toe Films (Paul Attanasio and Katie Jacobs), Shore Z Productions (David Shore), and Bad Hat Harry Productions (Bryan Singer) in association with the NBC Universal Television Group (formed after General Electric, the owners of NBC, bought Universal Studios from Vivendi Universal) for FOX. All three companies are responsible for production and all four people are executive producers of the show. David Shore\'s ideas for House are inspired by the writings of Berton Roueche.Roueche, Berton : The Medical Detectives
As of the season two episode "TB or Not TB", a German production company, Moratim, is credited in the copyright notice instead of Universal Media Studios. (Moratim Produktions GmbH & Co. KG, of Pullach im Isartal, Germany.) Moratim produced five episodes.[citation needed]
The 58th Primetime Emmy Awards nominated Derek R. Hill (Production Designer) and Danielle Berman, S.D.S.A.She\'s a member of the Set Decoraters Society of America. (Set Decorator) for a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series for the season two episodes "Autopsy", "Distractions", and "Skin Deep".
The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards awarded a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie or Special (Prosthetic) to Dalia Dokter (Department Head Prosthetic Makeup Artist), Jamie Kelman (Prosthetic Makeup Artist), and Ed French (Prosthetic Makeup Artist) for the season three episode entitled "Que Sera Sera".
The producers were reportedly dissatisfied with early auditions for the role of Gregory House. When Hugh Laurie auditioned, he apologized for his appearance as he was filming Flight of the Phoenix at the time. Casting Session with Hugh Laurie House DVD Special Feature, [2005] Laurie\'s American accent was reportedly so flawless that Bryan Singer singled him out as an example of a real American actor, being unaware of Laurie\'s background.Radio Times magazine, 23 March 2007 Laurie later stated that his original impression was that the show was about Dr. James Wilson. The script referred to Wilson as a doctor with "boyish" looks, and Laurie assumed that Wilson was the central character and that House was the "sidekick" (the show was not yet titled House at that point). It was not until he received the full teleplay of the pilot that he realized that House was the protagonist. Inside the Actor\'s Studio Hugh Laurie Interview, BRAVO Network, [2006] Laurie, whose father was a doctor himself, said he felt guilty for "being paid more to become a fake version of my own father" after being cast as House.Keveney, Bill (2004). Hugh Laurie gets into \'House\'. USA Today.
In North America (and some countries elsewhere) the opening theme of the series is "Teardrop" by Massive Attack. "Teardrop" has lyrics, sung by guest vocalist Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins; however, the version used in the opening credits uses only the beginning and ending sections, which are solely instrumental. Due to rights and licensing issues, in most countries a piece of music named "House End Credits" is used, which was composed specifically for the show by Jon Ehrlich, Jason Derlatka, and Leigh Roberts. With the second season, this was replaced with a similar track by only Ehrlich and Roberts. This theme tune, however, is only used in the televised broadcast. In the DVD release (Season 2), the original (American) theme is used. In Italy, opening themes for season 1–2 and season 3 are switched, so that the original "Teardrop" is used for season 3, while both Season 1 and 2 use the edited version. In season 4, Australia began using "Teardrop" as the opening theme, replacing the specifically composed "House" theme. The satirical British television show Dead Ringers, which sometimes spoofs House, uses "Teardrop" for the spoof\'s opening theme. "Teardrop" is also used in the season 2 region 2 and region 4 release, replacing the "House" theme at the beginning of the episode.
Exterior shots of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital are actually of Princeton University\'s Frist Campus Center, which is the University\'s student center. Filming does not, however, take place there.McCosh Health Center, the University\'s infirmary, is situated adjacent to Frist, and can be seen in some shots. Instead, it takes place on the FOX lot in Century City, with exterior shots filmed in the New York City backlot, sometimes using FOX administration buildings for additional locations, like the "Princeton Police Department".[citation needed]
House episodes often use the "walk and talk" filming technique (also called "pedeconferencing") made popular by Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme in television series such as Sports Night and The West Wing.Blogcritics Review of House "The gorgeous wood and glass sets must be a pain to shoot properly, and walk-and-talk shots are a signature, but otherwise the direction tends to the clean and simple." {emphasis added}.Screenplay from Twiztv.com This explicitly references the "ducklings" and cues a "walk and talk." The technique consists of tracking two or more characters backwards as they walk from one location to another, usually discussing the topic of the meeting they are heading to, or in this show\'s case, the patient\'s condition, test results, and diagnosis.
| Title | Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 3 | Region 4 |
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| Season One | August 30 2005 | February 27 2006 | PAL version, Singapore (date of release unknown) NTSC version, Philippines | November 28 2005 |
| Season Two | August 22 2006 | October 23 2006 | N/A | October 23, 2006 |
| Season Three | August 21 2007 | November 19 2007 | N/A | September 17 2007 |
Despite the series being filmed for widescreen (16:9 standard) television, the Season One DVD set is in 4:3 standard format, although the Region 1 release has letterboxes, thereby still presenting images in their entirety, whereas the other regions have a cropped fullscreen format, thereby losing the later portions of the image.Quotenmeter.de :: Thema anzeigen - Dr. House The Season Two DVD set, on the other hand, presents the show in its original widescreen format in all regions, except for the Spanish release that still has fullscreen format.
The Season Two and Season Three DVD sets have not yet been released in Region 3; their possible release dates have not been confirmed yet.
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| Preceded by Criminal Minds 2007 | Super Bowl lead-out program 2008 | Succeeded by TBD 2009 |
| House | |
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| Episodes · Awards · Soundtrack | |
| Characters | Gregory House · Lisa Cuddy · James Wilson · Eric Foreman · Allison Cameron · Robert Chase · Chris Taub · Lawrence Kutner · "Thirteen" |
| Cast and crew | Hugh Laurie · Lisa Edelstein · Robert Sean Leonard · Omar Epps · Jennifer Morrison · Jesse Spencer · Peter Jacobson · Kal Penn · Olivia Wilde · David Shore · Katie Jacobs |
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