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House MD was first broadcast on Fox in the United States on the Sixteenth of November 2004, since then House MD and the title character Dr Gregory House have become one of the most successful prime time drama series in history.

House MD was created by canadian born writer David Shore who commented in 2005 "...Anytime one says 'puzzle' and 'brilliant deduction' in the same sentence, one can't help but think of the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick, Dr. Watson. And indeed, Holmes -- and the real-life physician that inspired him, Dr. Joseph Bell -- were very much inspirations for 'House.'".

And this similarity between Dr Gregory House and the great detective Sherlock Holmes goes a long way to explaining the lasting success of the show. House is not a nice, kind, thoughtful. fatherly, doctor like so many seen on St Elsewhere, ER and Grey Anatomy, he is an arrogant, inconsiderate, misanthropic, diagnostic genius, with a chronic pain problem and a drug addiction. His team and his very few friends put up with his appalling behaviour, both professional and personal, because he is simply the best and he saves lives. They also like to think that deep down he really cares, this last part, the bit about caring is probably not true.

The comparison with the novels of Conan Doyle and the great detective Sherlock Holmes, can be applied to the basic premise of the show. Dr Gregory House M.D. is the chief diagnostician at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) he takes cases that other "lesser doctors" are unable to solve, he hunts down the cause of the disease and solves the case through intuition, intelligent guess work and deduction. In effect the symptoms are the crime the disease/cause the criminal and House the master detective.

The casting of Hugh Laurie in the role of Dr Gregory House was inspired, it happens rarely that a part was made for an actor or an actor made for a character but when it does the result is immediate lasting popular success. In the case of Hugh Laurie and Dr Gregory House the casting was not immediately obvious, Hugh Laurie had been famous in his home country of Britain as a comic actor and one half of a double act with Stephen Fry. In the US he had been seen in a few family movies, mostly light comedyies like 101 Dalmations and Stuart Little and a few comedies like Friends.

Hugh Laurie was in Namibia filming Flight of the Phoenix when he recorded the audition tape for the show, He was dishevelled and unshaven and had to use his hotel to film it, as nowhere else offered the peace and quiet needed. Rumour has it he was going for the role of Dr Wilson, but his perfect accent and his intense dishevelled good looks was so convincing that executive producer Bryan Singer pointed to him as an example of just the kind of compelling American actor he had been looking for. Since taking the role of House Hugh Lauries own skills especially as a talented musician have been used in the role.

But the character of House alone would not make the series such a huge success, the supporting cast for the show is superb, House's boss Lisa Cuddy played by Lisa Edelstein and Dr James Wislon (House's own Dr Watson) played by Robert Sean Leonard try to keep their friend and colleague out of trouble. His diagnostic team, played in the first few series by Omar Epps and Dr Foreman, and Jennifer Morrison as Dr Cameron and Jesse Spencer as Dr Chase are battered and bruised by the experience of working for House, their intellect and their ethics are challenged continuously. In Season 4 and 5 House builds a new team, Dr Remy Hadley (Olivia Wilde), Dr Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson) and Dr lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn). They easily match up to the original team in character depth and the ability of the actors to bring the new team onto the screen.

A particularly enjoyable facet of the show are the so called Housisms, one off phrases and put downs House throws out to offend, educate and generally mess with the Doctors patients around him, see the short clip at the top of this page.

SEASON 6

"House," which celebrated its 100th episode milestone in February 2009, has been honored with three Emmy Awards, including an award for creator and executive producer David Shore (Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series). The series has been honored with 20 Emmy Award nominations, including four for Outstanding Drama Series and four for Hugh Laurie (Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series). The series received the 2006 Humanitas Prize for the episode "Three Stories" and four Humanitas finalist honors, one each for the 2009 episode "Unfaithful," the 2007 episode "House vs. God" and the 2005 episodes "Everybody Lies" and "Damned If You Do."
Additionally, "House" received two Golden Globe Awards for Laurie (Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series) and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Laurie (Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series) as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination (Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series); two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Television Series, Drama; three NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Drama Series; and one NAACP Image Award win for Omar Epps (Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series).
The show has also been honored by the American Film Institute as one of the TV Programs of the Year, and it received a Peabody Award for Best of Electronic Media, as well as two consecutive People’s Choice Awards for Favorite TV Drama, a People’s Choice Award for Hugh Laurie (Favorite Male TV Star) and the Writers Guild Award for Episodic Drama ("Autopsy").

In Season Five, after the shocking death of team member Dr. Lawrence Kutner, House’s life began to spin out of control, causing him to hallucinate and lose faith in his own mental abilities. After a challenging and brief engagement, Cameron and Chase celebrated their wedding, Thirteen and Foreman continued their romantic relationship, and new mother Cuddy learned that House hallucinated a physical relationship with her. When the season concluded, House was forced to admit that he had lost his grip on reality and could no longer practice medicine. Out of options, he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.
Beginning with a two-hour premiere set almost entirely inside the psychiatric hospital, Season Six will explore House’s long and twisted road to recovery: Can he find some version of sanity and normalcy? Can he stay away from the workplace that arguably drove him to mental instability but is also the only stable foundation in his life? Can Princeton-Plainsboro continue its celebrated Department of Diagnostics without him? How will Cuddy’s relationship with House change, now that their imagined affair is out in the open?
"House" is from Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with Universal Media Studios. Katie Jacobs, David Shore, Paul Attanasio, Bryan Singer, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner and Thomas L. Moran are executive producers.

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