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«House M.D.» redirects here. For the titular character, see Gregory House.

House
Also known as	House, M.D.
Genre	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 Amber Tamblyn Odette Annable Charlyne Yi
Opening theme	«Teardrop» by Massive Attack[a]
Composers	Jason Derlatka Jon Ehrlich[b]
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	177 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Paul Attanasio Katie Jacobs David Shore Bryan Singer Thomas L. Moran Russel Friend Garrett Lerner Greg Yaitanes Hugh Laurie
Cinematography	Newton Thomas Sigel Walt Lloyd Roy H. Wagner Gale Tattersall Tony Gaudioz
Running time	41–49 minutes
Production companies	Heel and Toe Films Shore Z Productions Bad Hat Harry Productions Universal Television[c]
Distributor	NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network	Fox
Picture format	NTSC HDTV 720p
Original release	November 16, 2004 – May 21, 2012
Chronology
Related	Nurse Jeffrey[1] Doctor Tyrsa Dr. Richter[2] Hekimoğlu

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. The series’ main character is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), an unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who, despite his dependence on pain medication, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey. The series’ premise originated with Paul Attanasio, while David Shore, who is credited as creator, was primarily responsible for the conception of the title character.

The series’ executive producers included Shore, Attanasio, Attanasio’s business partner Katie Jacobs, and film director Bryan Singer. It was filmed largely in a neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles County’s Westside called Century City. The show received high critical acclaim, and was consistently one of the highest rated series in the United States.

House often clashes with his fellow physicians, including his own diagnostic team, because many of his hypotheses about patients’ illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights. His flouting of hospital rules and procedures frequently leads him into conflict with his boss, hospital administrator and Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein). House’s only true friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), head of the Department of Oncology.

During the first three seasons, House’s diagnostic team consists 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 disbands. Rejoined by Foreman, House gradually selects three new team members: Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde), Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson) and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn). Chase and Cameron continue to appear occasionally in different roles at the hospital. Kutner dies late in season five; early in season six, Cameron departs the hospital, and Chase returns to the diagnostic team. Thirteen takes a leave of absence for most of season seven, and her position is filled by medical student Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn). Cuddy and Masters depart before season eight; Foreman becomes the new Dean of Medicine, while Dr. Jessica Adams (Odette Annable) and Dr. Chi Park (Charlyne Yi) join House’s team.

House was among the top 10 series in the United States from its second season through the fourth season. Distributed to 66 countries, House was the most-watched television program in the world in 2008.^[3] The show received numerous awards, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody Award, and nine People’s Choice Awards. On February 8, 2012, Fox announced that the eighth season, then in progress, would be its last.^[4] The series finale aired on May 21, 2012, following an hour-long retrospective.

Production[edit]

Conception[edit]

In 2004, David Shore and Paul Attanasio, along with Attanasio’s business partner Katie Jacobs, pitched the series (untitled at the time) to Fox as a CSI-style medical detective program,^[5] a hospital whodunit in which the doctors investigated symptoms and their causes.^[6] Attanasio was inspired to develop a medical procedural drama by The New York Times Magazine column «Diagnosis», written by physician Lisa Sanders, who is an attending physician at Yale–New Haven Hospital (YNHH); the fictitious Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH, not to be confused with the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro) is modeled after this teaching institution.^[7] Fox bought the series, though the network’s then-president, Gail Berman, told the creative team, «I want a medical show, but I don’t want to see white coats going down the hallway».^[8] Jacobs has said that this stipulation was one of the many influences that led to the show’s ultimate form.^[8]

After Fox picked up the show, it acquired the working title Chasing Zebras, Circling the Drain^[10] («zebra» is medical slang for an unusual or obscure diagnosis, while «circling the drain» refers to terminal cases, patients in an irreversible decline).^[11] The original premise of the show was of a team of doctors working together trying to «diagnose the undiagnosable».^[12] Shore felt it was important to have an interesting central character, one who could examine patients’ personal characteristics and diagnose their ailments by figuring out their secrets and lies.^[12] As Shore and the rest of the creative team explored the character’s possibilities, the program concept became less of procedure and more focused upon the lead role.^[13] The character was named «House», which was adopted as the show’s title, as well.^[10] Shore developed the characters further and wrote the script for the pilot episode.^[5] Bryan Singer, who directed the pilot episode and had a major role in casting the primary roles, has said that the «title of the pilot was ‘Everybody Lies’, and that’s the premise of the show».^[13] Shore has said that the central storylines of several early episodes were based on the work of Berton Roueché, a staff writer for The New Yorker between 1944 and 1994, who specialized in features about unusual medical cases.^[6]

Shore traced the concept for the title character to his experience as a patient at a teaching hospital.^[14] He recalled: «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.»^[15] A central part of the show’s premise was that the main character would be disabled in some way.^[16] The original idea was for House to use a wheelchair, but Fox rejected this. 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.^[13] The writers ultimately chose to give House a damaged leg arising from an incorrect diagnosis, which requires him to use a cane and causes him pain that leads to a narcotic dependency.^[16]

References to Sherlock Holmes[edit]

References to fictional detective Sherlock Holmes appear throughout the series.^[17][18] Shore explained that he was always a Holmes fan and found the character’s indifference to his clients unique.^[15] The resemblance is evident in House’s reliance on inductive reasoning^[17] and psychology, even where it might not seem obviously applicable,^[11] and his reluctance to accept cases he finds uninteresting.^[19] House’s investigatory method is to eliminate diagnoses logically as they are proved impossible; Holmes uses a similar method.^[10] Both characters play instruments (House plays the piano, the guitar, and the harmonica; Holmes, the violin) and take drugs (House is dependent on Vicodin; Holmes uses cocaine recreationally).^[17] House’s relationship with Dr. James Wilson echoes that between Holmes and his confidant, Dr. John Watson.^[10] Robert Sean Leonard, who portrays Wilson, said that House and his character were originally intended to work together much as Holmes and Watson do; in his view, House’s diagnostic team has assumed that aspect of the Watson role.^[20] Shore said that House’s name itself is meant as «a subtle homage» to Holmes.^[10][21] House’s address is 221B Baker Street, a direct reference to Holmes’s street address.^[11] Wilson’s address is also 221B.^[22]

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, «A Scandal in Bohemia».^[23] In the season two finale, House is shot by a crazed gunman credited as «Moriarty», the name of Holmes’s nemesis.^[24] In the season four episode «It’s a Wonderful Lie», House receives a «second-edition Conan Doyle» as a Christmas gift.^[25] In the season five episode «The Itch», House is seen picking up his keys and Vicodin from the top of a copy of Conan Doyle’s The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.^[26] In another season five episode, «Joy to the World», House, in an attempt to fool his team, uses a book by Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.^[10] The volume had been given to him the previous Christmas by Wilson, who included the message «Greg, made me think of you.» Before acknowledging that he gave the book to House, Wilson tells two of the team members that its source was a patient, Irene Adler.^[27] Season 7 episode 3 includes a young adult boyhood detective book series written by the patient, whose final unpublished volume ends in an ambiguous end to the main character reminiscent of «The Final Problem». The series finale also pays homage to Holmes’s apparent death in «The Final Problem», the 1893 story with which Conan Doyle originally intended to conclude the Holmes chronicles.^[28]

Production team[edit]

House was a co-production of Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions, and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with Universal Network Television for Fox.^[30] 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, were executive producers of the program for its entirety.^[14] 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 pilot episode. Writers Doris Egan, Sara Hess, Russel Friend, and Garrett Lerner joined the team at the start of season two. Friend and Lerner, who are business partners, had been offered positions when the series launched, but turned the opportunity down. After observing the show’s success, they accepted when Jacobs offered them jobs again the following year.^[31] Writers Eli Attie and Sean Whitesell joined the show at the start of season four; Attie would stay on the show’s writing staff through the series finale, which he co-wrote. From the beginning of season four, Moran, Friend, and Lerner were credited as executive producers on the series, joining Attanasio, Jacobs, Shore, and Singer.^[30] Hugh Laurie was credited as an executive producer for the second^[32] and third^[33] episodes of season five.

Shore was House‘s showrunner.^[34] Through the end of the sixth season, more than two dozen writers had contributed to the program. The most prolific were Kaplow (18 episodes), Blake (17), Shore (16), Friend (16), Lerner (16), Moran (14), and Egan (13). The show’s most prolific directors through its first six seasons were Deran Sarafian (22 episodes), who was not involved in season six, and Greg Yaitanes (17). Of the more than three dozen other directors who have worked on the series, only David Straiton directed as many as 10 episodes through the sixth season. Hugh Laurie directed the 17th episode of season six, «Lockdown».^[35] Elan Soltes was the visual effects supervisor since the show began.^[36] Lisa Sanders, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, was a technical advisor to the series. She writes the «Diagnosis» column that inspired House‘s premise.^[37] According to Shore, «[T]hree different doctors … check everything we do».^[38] Bobbin Bergstrom, a registered nurse, was the program’s on-set medical adviser.^[38]

Casting[edit]

At first, the producers were looking for a «quintessentially American person» to play the role of House.^[39] Bryan Singer in particular felt there was no way he was going to hire a non-American actor for the role.^[12] At the time of the casting session, actor 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,^[39] and apologized for its appearance^[40] (which Singer compared to a «bin Laden video»).^[41] Laurie improvised, using an umbrella for a cane. Singer was very impressed by his performance and commented on how well the «American actor» was able to grasp the character.^[12][42] Singer was not aware that Laurie was English, due to his American accent. Laurie credits the accent to «a misspent youth [watching] too much TV and too many movies».^[39] Although locally better-known actors such as Denis Leary, David Cross, Rob Morrow, and Patrick Dempsey were considered for the part, Shore, Jacobs, and Attanasio were as impressed as Singer and cast Laurie as House.^[43]

Laurie later revealed that he initially thought the show’s central character was Dr. James Wilson. He assumed that House was a supporting part, due to the nature of the character, until he received the full script of the pilot episode.^[45] Laurie, the son of medical doctor Ran Laurie, said he felt guilty for «being paid more to become a fake version of [his] own father».^[39] From the start of season three, he was being paid $275,000 to $300,000 per episode, as much as three times what he had previously been making on the series.^[46] Laurie was earning around $400,000 per episode by the fifth season,^[47] and $700,000 per episode for the final season, making him one of the highest-paid actors on network television.^[48][49]

Robert Sean Leonard had received the script for the CBS show Numb3rs as well as that for House.^[50] Leonard thought the Numb3rs script was «kind of cool» and planned to audition for the show.^[50] However, he 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».^[50] 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.^[50] Singer had enjoyed Lisa Edelstein’s portrayal of a prostitute on The West Wing, and sent her a copy of the pilot script.^[51] Edelstein was attracted to the quality of the writing and her character’s «snappy dialogue» with House, and was cast as Dr. Lisa Cuddy.^[51]

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.^[52] After he was cast, he persuaded the producers to turn the character into an Australian.^[53] Patrick Dempsey also auditioned for the part of Chase; he later became known for his portrayal of Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy.^[54] Omar Epps, who plays Dr. Eric Foreman, was inspired by his earlier portrayal of a troubled intern on the NBC medical drama ER;^[55] his character was given the name «Eric Foreman» despite the fact that Fox was still airing That 70’s Show when House premiered and had the similarly named Eric Forman as that series’ main protagonist. (The two series overlapped on Fox’s schedule for two seasons, though Topher Grace left That 70’s Show at the end of its 7th season and House’s first, only returning for that show’s series finale.) Jennifer Morrison felt that her audition for the part of Dr. Allison Cameron was a complete disaster.^[56] 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.^[56] Morrison left the show when her character was written out in the middle of season six.^[57]

At the end of season three, House dismisses Chase, while Foreman and Cameron resign.^[58] After an episode in which he «borrows» a janitor whom he calls «Dr. Buffer» to assist in a diagnosis, 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 four’s fifth episode, bringing the team back up to three members; ultimately, the decision was made to add three new regular cast members.^[59] (Along with Epps, actors Morrison and Spencer remained in the cast, as their characters moved on to new assignments.) During production, the show’s writers dismissed a single candidate per episode; as a result, said Jacobs, neither the producers nor the cast knew who was going to be hired until the last minute.^[60] In the season’s ninth episode, House’s new team is revealed: Foreman is joined by doctors Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn),^[61] Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson),^[62] and Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde).^[63] The candidates rejected by House did not return to the show, with the exception of the last one cut: Amber «Cutthroat Bitch» Volakis (Anne Dudek), who appeared for the rest of season four as Wilson’s girlfriend,^[64] and in seasons five and eight as a hallucination of House’s.^[65] While Penn and Wilde had higher profiles than the actors who played the other finalists, Jacobs said they went through an identical audition process and stayed with the show based on the writers’ interest in their characters.^[60] Kutner was written out of the series in episode 20 of season 5 after Penn took a position in the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.^[66]

The contracts of Edelstein, Epps, and Leonard expired at the end of season seven. As a cost-cutting measure, the three actors were asked to accept reduced salaries. Epps and Leonard came to terms with the producers, but Edelstein did not, and in May 2011, it was announced that she would not be returning for the show’s eighth season.^[67]

Filming style and locations[edit]

House is often filmed using the «walk and talk» filming technique,^[8][19] popularized on television by series such as St. Elsewhere, ER, Sports Night, and The West Wing.^[68] The technique involves the use of tracking shots, showing two or more characters walking between locations while talking.^[68] 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».^[8] She noted the significance of «the fact that Hugh Laurie spans 6’2″ and is taller than everybody else because it certainly makes those walk-and-talks pop».^[8] Nancy Franklin of The New Yorker described the show’s «cool, Fantastic Voyage–like special effects of patients’ innards. I’ll bet you didn’t know that when your kidneys shut down they sound like bubble wrap popping.»^[69] «Cameras and special effects travel not only down the throat» of one patient, another critic observed, «but up her nose and inside her brain and leg».^[70] Instead of relying primarily on computer-generated imagery, the interior body shots tend to involve miniature effects and motion control photography.^[36] Many of the sets are dressed with a variety of unscripted props that allow Laurie to physically improvise, revealing aspects of his character and the story.^[8]

The pilot episode was filmed in Vancouver; primary photography for all subsequent episodes took place on the Fox lot in Century City, Los Angeles.^[38] Bryan Singer chose the hospital near his hometown, West Windsor, New Jersey, as the show’s fictional setting.^[14] Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center^[d] is the source of the aerial views of Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital seen in the series.^[72] Some filming took place at the University of Southern California for the season-three episode «Half-Wit», which guest-starred Dave Matthews and Kurtwood Smith.^[73] Part of House‘s sixth season was filmed at the abandoned Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, as the fictional Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital.^[74]

Opening sequence[edit]

The opening sequence begins with an MRI of a head with an image of the boxed «H» from the logo (the international symbol for hospital) in the foreground. This is then overlaid with an image of Dr. House’s face taken from the pilot episode with the show’s full title appearing across his face. House’s head then fades and the show’s title is underlined and has the «M.D.» appear next to it, producing the entire logo of the show. This was the full extent of the title sequence in the pilot episode.^[75] All subsequent episodes contain a longer sequence including the names of the six featured cast members and creator David Shore. Laurie’s name appears first, followed by the names of the five other featured cast members in alphabetical order (Edelstein, Epps, Leonard, Morrison, and Spencer), then Shore.^[76]

After the show’s title fades, an aerial view of PPTH (actually various Princeton University buildings, primarily Frist Campus Center)^[72] is followed by a series of images accompanying each member’s name; most are shown next to, or superimposed upon, illustrations of human anatomy. Laurie’s name appears next to a model of a human head with the brain exposed; Edelstein’s name appears next to a visual effects–produced graphic of an angiogram of the heart. Epps’s name is superimposed upon a rib cage X-ray; Leonard’s name appears on a drawing of the two hemispheres of the brain.^[76] The producers originally wanted to include an image of a cane and an image of a Vicodin bottle, but Fox objected. Morrison’s title card was thus lacking an image; an aerial shot of rowers on Princeton University’s Lake Carnegie was finally agreed upon to accompany her name.^[77] Spencer’s name appears next to an old-fashioned anatomical drawing of a spine. Between the presentations of Spencer and Shore’s names is a scene of House and his three original team members walking down one of the hospital’s hallways.^[76] 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».^[77] The sequence was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2005.^[78] The title sequence continued to credit Spencer and Morrison, even when their characters were reduced to background roles during seasons four and five, and Morrison even after hers was written out. A new opening sequence was introduced in season seven to accommodate the changes in the cast, removing Morrison’s name and including Jacobson’s and Wilde’s. It was updated in season eight, removing Edelstein’s and Wilde’s names and adding Annable’s and Yi’s.^[79][80]

The series’ original opening theme, as heard in the United States, comprises instrumental portions of «Teardrop» by Massive Attack.^[81] The piece was used in part because of the distinct tempo which roughly mimics the sound of a beating human heart.^[82] An acoustic version of «Teardrop», with guitar and vocals by José González, is heard as background music during the season-four finale.^[83]

Series overview[edit]

Gregory House, M.D., often construed as a misanthropic medical genius,^[85] heads a team of diagnosticians at the Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.^[75] The series is structured around a central plot with some supporting secondary stories and narratives that cross over seasons. Most episodes revolve around the diagnosis of a primary patient and start with a cold open set outside the hospital, showing events ending with the onset of the patient’s symptoms.^[19] The typical episode follows the team in their attempts to diagnose and treat the patient’s illness,^[81][86] which often fail until the patient’s condition is critical.^[81] They usually treat only patients whom other doctors have not accurately diagnosed,^[72] and House routinely rejects cases he does not find interesting.^[19]

Typically, the patient is misdiagnosed at least once which usually causes further complications, but the nature of the complications often provides new evidence which helps them diagnose the patient correctly.^[19] House often tends to arrive at the correct diagnosis seemingly out of the blue, often inspired by a passing remark made by another character.^[86] Diagnoses range from relatively common to very rare diseases.^[87]

The team faces many diagnostic difficulties from patients’ concealment of symptoms, circumstances, or personal histories, so House frequently proclaims during the team’s deliberations, «The patient is lying», or mutters «Everybody lies»; such an assumption guides House’s decisions and diagnoses^[11] and makes the countermeasure of housebreaking a routine procedure. Because many of his hypotheses are based on epiphanies or controversial insights, he often has trouble obtaining permission for medical procedures he considers necessary from his superior, who in all but the final season is hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy.^[88] This is especially the case when the proposed procedures involve a high degree of risk or are ethically questionable. Frequent disagreements occur between House and his team,^[89] especially Dr. Allison Cameron, whose standards of medical ethics are more conservative than those of the other characters.^[81]

Like all of the hospital’s doctors, House is required to treat patients in the facility’s walk-in clinic.^[75][90] His grudging fulfillment of this duty, or his creative methods of avoiding it, constitute a recurring subplot, which often serves as the series’ comic relief.^[81][91] During clinic duty, House confounds patients with unwelcome observations into their personal lives, eccentric prescriptions, and unorthodox treatments.^[75] However, after seeming to be inattentive to their complaints, he regularly impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses.^[17] Analogies with some of the simple cases in the clinic occasionally inspire insights that help solve the team’s case.^[19][92]

A significant plot element is House’s use of Vicodin to manage pain, caused by an infarction in the quadriceps muscle of his right leg five years before the show’s first season, which also forces him to use a cane.^[94] In the first-season 11th 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».^[e] His addiction has led his colleagues Cuddy and Dr. James Wilson to encourage him to go to drug rehabilitation several times.^[96] When he has no access to Vicodin or experiences unusually intense pain, he occasionally self-medicates with other narcotic analgesics such as morphine,^[97] oxycodone,^[98] and methadone.^[99] House also frequently drinks liquor when he is not on medical duty and classifies himself as a «big drinker».^[100] Toward the end of season five, House begins to hallucinate; after eliminating other possible diagnoses, Wilson and he determine that his Vicodin addiction is the most likely cause.^[101] House goes into denial about this for a brief time, but at the close of the season finale, he commits himself to Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital.^[102] In the following season’s debut episode, House leaves Mayfield with his addiction under control.^[103] However, about a year and a half later, in season seven’s 15th episode, «Bombshells», House reacts to the news that Cuddy possibly has kidney cancer by taking Vicodin,^[104] and he returns to his addiction.^[105]

Cast and characters[edit]

Name	Portrayed by	Occupation	Seasons
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Dr. Gregory House	Hugh Laurie	Infectious Disease Specialist, Nephrologist, Diagnostician, Head of Department of Diagnostic Medicine	Main
Dr. Lisa Cuddy	Lisa Edelstein	Endocrinologist, Dean of Medicine (Season 1–7)	Main
Dr. James Wilson	Robert Sean Leonard	Head of Department of Oncology	Main
Dr. Eric Foreman	Omar Epps	Neurologist, Diagnostic Medicine, Dean of Medicine (Season	Main
Dr. Robert Chase	Jesse Spencer	Surgeon, Intensivist, Cardiologist, Head of Department of Diagnostic Medicine (Series Finale)	Main
Dr. Allison Cameron	Jennifer Morrison	Immunologist, Diagnostic Medicine, Emergency Medicine	Main		Guest
Dr. Chris Taub	Peter Jacobson	Plastic Surgeon, Diagnostic Medicine		Main
Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley	Olivia Wilde	Internist, Diagnostic Medicine		Main
Dr. Lawrence Kutner	Kal Penn	Sports Medicine, Diagnostic Medicine		Main		Guest
Dr. Martha Masters	Amber Tamblyn	Double-Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Art History,[106] Medical student		Main	Guest
Dr. Jessica Adams	Odette Annable	Prison clinic physician,[107] Diagnostic Medicine		Main
Dr. Chi Park	Charlyne Yi	Neurologist, Diagnostic Medicine		Main

Main characters[edit]

Throughout House‘s run, six of the main actors have received star billing. All of them play doctors who work at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.^[75] Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), the title character, was educated at Johns Hopkins University and heads the Department of Diagnostic Medicine.^[108] House describes himself as «a board-certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology».^[109] Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), House’s one true friend, is the head of the Department of Oncology.^[110] Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), an endocrinologist,^[111] is House’s boss, as she is the hospital’s dean of medicine and chief administrator.^[112] House has a complex relationship with Cuddy, and their interactions often involve a high degree of innuendo and sexual tension.^[113] In the sixth episode of season five, «Joy», they kiss for the first time.^[114] Their physical relationship does not progress any further during the fifth season; in the season- five finale, House believes he and Cuddy had sex, but this is a hallucination brought on by House’s Vicodin addiction.^[102] In the finale of season six, Cuddy tells House she loves him. They kiss and agree to try being a couple.^[115] Throughout season seven, House and Cuddy try to make their relationship work, but Cuddy eventually breaks it off because of House’s addiction. House struggles to deal with this and, in the season-seven finale, drives his car into Cuddy’s living room in anger. As Lisa Edelstein left the show before season eight, after this incident Cuddy leaves the hospital and House never sees her again.

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.^[112] In the season-three episode «Family», Foreman announces his resignation, telling House, «I don’t want to turn into you».^[f] During the season finale, House tells Chase that he has either learned everything he can, or nothing at all, and dismisses him from the team. Cameron, who has developed an affection for Chase, soon resigns.^[58] This leaves House without a team for the season-four premiere.^[117]

Under orders from Cuddy to recruit a new team, House considers 40 doctors.^[100] Season four’s early episodes focus on his selection process, structured as a reality TV–style elimination contest^[100] (Jacobs referred to it as a «version of Survivor«).^[118] House assigns each applicant a number between one and 40, and pares them down to seven finalists.^[119] He assesses their performance in diagnostic cases, assisted by Foreman, who returns to the department after his dismissal from another hospital for House-like behavior.^{[119][120][121]} While Foreman’s return means only two slots are open, House tricks Cuddy into allowing him to hire three new assistants.^[122] He ultimately selects Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), a former plastic surgeon; Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), a sports medicine specialist; and Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde), an internist (nicknamed for her number in the elimination contest).^[122][123] In the season finale, Thirteen discovers she has, as she had long dreaded, inherited Huntington’s disease, which is incurable, from her mother.^[83]

In the 11th episode of season five, «Joy to the World», Foreman and Thirteen engage in a passionate kiss.^[27] Thirteen is at first reluctant to start a relationship with Foreman, but the two eventually begin dating and are still together at the end of the season.^[102] They break up early in season six. In the 20th episode of season five, «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.^[124]

In the seventh episode of season two, «Hunting», Cameron and Chase have a one-night stand.^[125] In the middle of season three, they initiate a sexual relationship that Cameron insists be casual;^[111] when Chase declares that he «wants more», Cameron ends the affair.^[126] By the end of the season, however, Cameron recognizes that she has romantic feelings for Chase and they begin a serious relationship.^[58] After leaving the diagnostic team, they assume different roles at the PPTH, Cameron as a senior attending physician in the emergency room^[g] and Chase as a surgeon.^[100] They become engaged in the season-five episode «Saviors» (the episode immediately following Kutner’s suicide)^[65] and are married in the season finale.^[127] When Chase rejoins House’s team in season six, Cameron leaves her husband and the hospital in «Teamwork», the season’s eighth episode.^[128] She returns as a guest character in «Lockdown», nine episodes later.^[129]

Early in season seven, Thirteen takes an unexplained leave of absence. Cuddy orders House to fill her position with another woman,^[130] but eventually makes the choice for him: medical student Dr. Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn), who makes her first appearance in the season’s sixth episode.^[131] Thirteen returns in «The Dig»—the season’s 18th episode and the show’s 150th—in which the reason for her absence is revealed: she was in prison for six months for having helped euthanize her brother, who was suffering from advanced Huntington’s.^[132] While Jacobson and Wilde play central characters (as did Penn), they did not receive star billing until season seven. They were credited as «Also Starring», with their names appearing after the opening sequence.^[133] In season seven, Jacobson and Wilde received star billing; new regular cast member Tamblyn did not.^[134]

Recurring characters[edit]

The first six seasons of House each included one or more recurring featured characters, who appear in multiple-episode story arcs.^[135] In season one, Edward Vogler (Chi McBride), the billionaire owner of a pharmaceutical company, appears in five episodes.^[136] He donates US$100 million to the PPTH in return for chairing its board.^[137] Vogler represented an attempt to introduce a villain, a move urged by Fox. By the time the Vogler episodes began to air, the show had become a hit and the character was soon dropped.^[136] Shore said the concept of a villainous boss was not really viable for the series: «It’s called House. The audience knows he’ll never get fired.»^[11]

Stacy Warner (Sela Ward), House’s ex-girlfriend,^[138] appears in the final two episodes of the first season, and seven episodes of season two.^[11] She wants House to treat her husband, Mark Warner (Currie Graham), whom House diagnoses with acute intermittent porphyria in the season-one finale.^[138] Stacy and House grow close again, but House eventually tells Stacy to go back to Mark, which devastates her.^[139]

Michael Tritter (David Morse), a police detective, appears in several season-three episodes. He tries to extract an apology from House, who left Tritter in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum.^[140] After House refuses to apologize, Tritter brings him up on charges of unprescribed narcotics possession and forces him to attend rehabilitation. When the case reaches court, Cuddy perjures herself for House and the case is dismissed. The judge reprimands Tritter for pursuing House to excess, and tells House that she thinks he «has better friends than he deserves», referring to Cuddy’s 11th-hour testimony on his behalf. House is sentenced to one night in jail for contempt of court and finishes his rehabilitation under the influence of Vicodin.^[96]

The candidates for House’s new diagnostics team are season four’s primary recurring characters.^[141] In addition to the three who are chosen, the other four finalists are Jeffrey Cole (Edi Gathegi), a medical geneticist;^[142] Travis Brennan (Andy Comeau), an epidemiologist;^[141] Henry Dobson (Carmen Argenziano), a former medical school admissions officer;^[100] and Amber Volakis (Anne Dudek), an interventional radiologist.^[123] Each of the four departs the show after elimination, except for Volakis, who appears throughout the season, having started a relationship with Wilson.^[143][144] In the two-part season finale, Volakis attempts to shepherd a drunken House home when Wilson is unavailable. They are involved in a bus crash, which leads to her death.^[83][145] She reappears late in season five among the hallucinations House suffers.^[65]

Private investigator Lucas Douglas (Michael Weston), a character inspired in part by Shore’s love of The Rockford Files, appears in three episodes of season five.^[146][147] House initially hires Douglas to spy on Wilson, who has ended their friendship after Volakis’s death (the friendship is subsequently rekindled). House later pays Douglas to look into the private lives of his team members and Cuddy.^[148] If the character had been accepted by the audience, plans existed to feature him as the lead in a spin-off show.^[149][150] In September 2008, Shore spoke to Entertainment Weekly about his vision for the character: «I don’t want to do just another medical show. What does excite me in terms of writing is the choices people make and the nature of right and wrong… and a private investigator can approach that question much more readily than a doctor can.»^[151] There was no show featuring Douglas on the fall 2009 network television schedule.^[152] He returns to House in season six as Cuddy’s boyfriend.^[153] They are briefly engaged until Cuddy breaks it off, realizing that she is in love with House.^[154]

Episodes[edit]

Reception[edit]

Critical reception[edit]

House received largely positive reviews on its debut;^[163] the series was considered a bright spot amid Fox’s schedule, which at the time was largely filled with reality shows.^[164] Season one holds a Metacritic score of 75 out of 100, based on 30 reviews, indicating «generally favorable» reviews.^[165] Matt Roush of TV Guide said that the program was an «uncommon cure for the common medical drama».^[166] New York Daily News critic David Bianculli applauded the «high caliber of acting and script».^[70] The Onion‘s «A.V. Club» approvingly described it as the «nastiest» black comedy from FOX since 1996’s short-lived Profit.^[167] New York‘s John Leonard called the series «medical TV at its most satisfying and basic»,^[168] while The Boston Globe‘s Matthew Gilbert appreciated that the show did not attempt to hide the flaws of the characters to assuage viewers’ fears about «HMO factories».^[169] Variety‘s Brian Lowry, less impressed, wrote that the show relied on «by-the-numbers storytelling, albeit in a glossy package».^[170] Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle described it as «mediocre» and unoriginal.^[171] Mikhail Varshavski, a Russian-American Osteopathic Doctor, reviewed the medical content of House on his YouTube channel. According to Varshavski, the medical information presented on the show was usually fundamentally accurate though often highly exaggerated for dramatic effect, but he described Gregory House’s tendency to quickly use invasive tests and procedures as outside the medical mainstream.^{[172][173][174]}

General critical reaction to the character of Gregory House was particularly positive.^[163][175] Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him «the most electrifying new main character to hit television in years».^[176] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s Rob Owen found him «fascinatingly unsympathetic».^[177] Critics have compared House to fictional detectives Nero Wolfe,^[178] Hercule Poirot, and Adrian Monk,^[179] and to Perry Cox, a cantankerous doctor on the television show Scrubs.^[164][177] One book-length study of the series finds a powerful kinship between House and another famous TV doctor, Hawkeye Pierce of M*A*S*H.^[180] Laurie’s performance in the role has been widely praised.^{[81][178][181]} The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Goodman called him «a wonder to behold» and «about the only reason to watch House«.^[171]

Critics have also reacted positively to the show’s original supporting cast, which the Post‘s Shales called a «first-rate ensemble».^[176] Leonard’s portrayal of Dr. Wilson has been considered Emmy Award worthy by critics with TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Today.^[182][183] Bianculli of the Daily News was happy to see Edelstein «was finally given a deservedly meaty co-starring role».^[70] Freelance critic Daniel Fienberg was disappointed that Leonard and Edelstein have not received more recognition for their performances.^[184]

Reaction to the major shifts of season four was mixed. «With the new crew in place House takes on a slightly more energized feel», wrote Todd Douglass Jr. of DVD Talk. «And the set up [sic] for the fifth season is quite brilliant.»^[185] The Star-Ledger‘s Alan Sepinwall wrote, «The extended, enormous job audition gave the writers a chance to reinvigorate the show and fully embrace Laurie’s comic genius».^[135] Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times, on the other hand, took issue with the developments: «the cast just kept getting bigger, the stories more scattered and uneven until you had a bunch of great actors forced to stand around watching Hugh Laurie hold the show together by the sheer force of his will».^[186] USA Today‘s Robert Bianco cheered the season finale: «Talk about saving the best for last. With two fabulous, heartbreaking hours … the writers rescued a season that had seemed diffuse, overcrowded and perhaps too ambitious for its own good.»^[183]

Season five of House was met with a more positive response in comparison to the previous season. It holds a Metacritic score of 77 out of 100, based on ten reviews, indicating «generally favorable reviews».^[187] It also holds a 100% approval rating on aggregate review website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 8.1 based on nine collected reviews.^[188]
USA Today praised Laurie’s performance and the repercussions of the season-four finale, stating «a carry-over from last season’s brilliant finale, House is firmly in the forefront. And when you have an actor of Hugh Laurie’s range, depth and charisma, putting him center-stage makes perfect sense, particularly when you’ve written a story that explores the character and his primary relationships in a way that seems integral to the series».^[189] The New York Daily News noted that «The show pays more attention to relationships we care about, hints at a sensible number of new ones that show some promise, and thus doesn’t rely on obscure medical mysteries to carry the whole dramatic burden», and noted that «the prognosis for this season could be better than last season seemed to foreshadow».^[190] Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times highlighted the performances of the cast, especially Michael Weston as detective Lucas Douglas, calling him a «delightful addition». She concluded, «So different is the premiere that the savvy House (and Fox) viewer may expect the revelation that it was all a fever dream. That does not seem to be the case, and one assumes that Laurie and the writers will be bringing a different version of their now-iconic character back to Princeton. Not too different, of course, but different enough.»^[186] Conversely, The Chicago Tribune‘s Maureen Ryan disliked Weston’s character, calling him «An unwelcome distraction … an irritating pipsqueak».^[191] She continued saying «House used to be one of the best shows on TV, but it’s gone seriously off the rails». The Sunday Times felt that the show had «lost its sense of humour».^[192] The focus on Thirteen and her eventual involvement with Foreman also came under particular criticism.^[135][193]

At the end of the show’s run, Steven Tong of Entertainment Weekly wrote that «House had, in its final seasons, become a rather sentimental show».^[194] In New York Magazine’s blog ‘Vulture’, Margaret Lyons wrote, «More than a hospital drama or a character piece or anything else, House is a complex meditation on misery.» But, continued Lyons, there is a line between «enlightened cynicism» and «misery-entropy», and «as the show wore on, its dramatic flare dimmed while its agony flare burned ever brighter.»^[195] Alan Sepinwall wrote, «The repetition and muck of [the] middle seasons ultimately severed whatever emotional connection I had to House’s personal struggles.»^[28]

In 2007, House placed #62 on Entertainment Weekly‘s «New TV Classics» list.^[196] The show was declared the second-highest-rated show for the first ten years of IMDb.com Pro (2002–2012).^[197] The show was ranked the 74th best-written television series in a 2013 survey of Writers Guild of America West members.^[198]

Critics’ top ten lists[edit]

After its first five seasons, House was included in various critics’ top-ten lists; these are listed below in order of rank.

U.S. television ratings[edit]

In its first season, House ranked twenty-fourth among all television series and was the ninth-most popular primetime program among women.^[204] Aided by a lead-in from the widely popular American Idol,^[205] 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.^[206] According to Jacobs, the production team was surprised that the show garnered such a large audience.^[207] In its fifth season, the show attracted 12.0 million viewers per episode and slipped to nineteenth place overall. It remained Fox’s most popular show other than American Idol.^[208]

The most-watched episode of House is the season four episode «Frozen»,^[209] which aired after Super Bowl XLII.^[210][211] It attracted slightly more than 29 million viewers.^[212] House ranked third for the week, equaling the rating of American Idol and being surpassed only by the Super Bowl itself and the post-game show.^[213] Below is a table of House‘s seasonal rankings in the U.S. television market, based on average total viewers per episode. Each U.S. network television season starts in September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.

House season rankings in the U.S. television market

Season	Episodes	Timeslot (ET)	Season premiere	Season finale	TV season	Rank	Viewers (millions)
1	22	Tuesday 9:00 pm	November 16, 2004	May 24, 2005	2004–2005	#24	13.34[214]
2	24	September 13, 2005	May 23, 2006	2005–2006	#10	17.35[215]
3	24	Tuesday 8:00 pm (2006) Tuesday 9:00 pm (2006–2007)	September 5, 2006	May 29, 2007	2006–2007	#5	19.95[216]
4	16	Tuesday 9:00 pm (2007–2008) Monday 9:00 pm (2008)	September 25, 2007	May 19, 2008	2007–2008	#7	17.64[217]
5	24	Tuesday 8:00 pm (2008) Monday 8:00 pm (2009)	September 16, 2008	May 11, 2009	2008–2009	#16	13.62[218]
6	22	Monday 8:00 pm	September 21, 2009	May 17, 2010	2009–2010	#22	12.76[219]
7	23	September 20, 2010	May 23, 2011	2010–2011	#42	10.32[220]
8	22	Monday 9:00 pm (2011) Monday 8:00 pm (January–March 2012) Monday 9:00 pm (April–May 2012)[221]	October 3, 2011	May 21, 2012	2011–2012	#58	8.69[222]

Awards and honors[edit]

House has received many awards and award nominations. In 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Laurie was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.^[224] The Emmy board also nominated House for Outstanding Drama Series in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, but the show never won the award.^[225] For the season one episode «Three Stories», David Shore won a writing Emmy in 2005^[78][226] and the Humanitas Prize in 2006.^[227] Director Greg Yaitanes received the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for directing «House’s Head», the first part of season four’s two-episode finale.^[228]

The show has been nominated for six Golden Globe Awards and received two. Hugh Laurie has been nominated six times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama; he won in 2006^[229][230] and again in 2007.^[231][232] In 2008 the series received its first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama.^[233] House was nominated for best dramatic series again the following year, but did not win in the category.^[234]

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», which helped make House «the most distinctive new doctor drama in a decade».^[85] The American Film Institute (AFI) included House in its 2005 list of 10 Television Programs of the Year.^[223]

In 2011, House won four People’s Choice Awards: favorite TV drama; favorite dramatic actor and actress for Laurie and Edelstein; and favorite TV doctor.^[235]

Laurie won the Screen Actors Guild’s award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in both 2007 and 2009.^[236] Writer Lawrence Kaplow won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for the season two episode «Autopsy».^[237] In 2007, the show won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for prosthetic makeup.^[238]

In 2005, Laurie appeared on the cover of TV Guide as «TV’s Sexiest Man».^[204] In 2008, Gregory House was voted second-sexiest television doctor ever, behind ER‘s Doug Ross (George Clooney).^[239]

Distribution[edit]

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).^[240][241] The following year, it placed second in the world after CSI.^[242]

House episodes premiered on FOX in the United States and Global in Canada, which have identical schedules.^[243] The show was the third-most popular on Canadian television in 2008.^[244] That same year, House was the top-rated television program in Germany,^[245] the number 2 show in Italy,^[246] and number 3 in the Czech Republic.^[247] The series is also very popular in France,^[248] Spain,^[249] Sweden, and the Netherlands.^[250] In the United Kingdom, the first four seasons were broadcast on Five. Sky1 acquired first-run rights beginning with season five.^[251] The original, English-language version of the show aired in Australia on Network Ten,^[252] in New Zealand on TV3,^[253] and in Ireland on 3e, TV3’s cable channel.^[254]

Episodes of the show are also available online for download: Amazon Video on Demand, iTunes Store and the Zune Marketplace offer episodes from all of seasons 1 through 8. In 2007, NBCUniversal (the show’s distributor) and Apple Inc. (iTunes’ owner) had a disagreement that temporarily kept the fourth season off iTunes.^[255] In a statement to the press, Apple claimed that NBCUniversal wanted to drive up the per-episode price to $4.99.^[256] In September 2008, it was reported that the issue between Apple and NBC had been resolved.^[257] Some episodes are available in streaming video on Fox’s official House webpage^[258] and all eight seasons were available on Netflix until April 2017.^[259]

Seasons of the show and box sets were released on DVD encoded for regions 1, 2 and 4.^[260] Special features, such as anamorphic widescreen (the original release is letterboxed), depend on region.^{[261][262][263]}

DVD and Blu-Ray releases[edit]

Season	DVD	Blu-ray
Region 1	Region 2	Region 4	Region A	Region B
Season One	August 30, 2005[264]	February 27, 2006[265]	July 12, 2006[266]	—
Season Two	August 22, 2006[267]	October 23, 2006[268]	October 25, 2006[269]
Season Three	August 21, 2007[270]	November 19, 2007[271]	September 19, 2007[272]
Season Four	August 19, 2008[273]	October 27, 2008[274]	August 20, 2008[275]
Season Five	August 25, 2009[276]	October 5, 2009[277]	September 30, 2009[278]
Season Six	August 31, 2010[279]	September 20, 2010[280]	November 3, 2010[281]	August 31, 2010	September 27, 2010
Season Seven	August 30, 2011[282]	September 26, 2011[283]	August 24, 2011[284]	August 30, 2011[285]	September 26, 2011
Season Eight	August 21, 2012[286]	October 22, 2012[287]	October 11, 2012[288]	August 21, 2012[289]	October 22, 2012
The Complete Series	October 2, 2012[290]	October 22, 2012[291] May 29, 2017 (reissue)[292]	October 11, 2012[293]	—	June 23, 2014

Merchandise[edit]

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).^[294][295] House cast and crew members also regularly attended fundraisers for NAMI and have featured in ads for the organization that appeared in Seventeen and Rolling Stone. The show’s efforts raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the charity. Jacobs said that through their association with NAMI, they hoped to take «some of the stigma off that illness».^[296]

Nettwerk released the House M.D. Original Television Soundtrack album on September 18, 2007.^[297] The soundtrack includes full length versions of songs featured in House and previously unreleased songs especially recorded for the series.^[298] In 2008, the Spanish game company Exelweiss designed a cellphone game for the show, which was released in both Spanish and English versions.^[299]

In June 2009, Legacy Interactive announced a licensing agreement with Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group (UPDPG) to develop a video game based on the series, in which players step into the roles of House’s diagnostic team to deal with five unusual medical cases.^[300] The game, released in May 2010, included a minigame calling upon the player to «navigate a restaurant-placemat-style maze, in which a giant sandwich must avoid hungry physicians on its way to Dr. House’s office.» It received an F from The A.V. Club;^[301] however, Legacy updated the game by August 2010.^[301]

Footnotes[edit]

References[edit]

• Benson, Kristina (2008). House M.D.: House MD Season Two Unofficial Guide: The Unofficial Guide to House MD Season 2. Equity Press. ISBN 978-1-60332-065-8.
• Challen, Paul (2007). The House that Hugh Laurie Built: An Unauthorized Biography and Episode Guide. Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-803-8.
• Holtz, Andrew (2006). The Medical Science of House, M.D. New York: Berkley Trade. ISBN 978-0-425-21230-1.
• Jacoby, Henry (2008). House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-31660-3.
• Law, Locky (2018). «House M.D. and creativity: A corpus linguistic systemic functional discourse analysis approach». PolyU Electronic Theses. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Law, Locky (2019). «Creativity and television drama: A corpus-based multimodal analysis of pattern-reforming creativity in House M.D.». Corpora. 14 (2): 135–171. doi:10.3366/cor.2019.0167. S2CID 201903734.
• Wilson, Leah (2007). House Unauthorized: Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner. Dallas Texas: BenBella Books Distributed by Independent Publishers Group. ISBN 978-1-933771-23-6.

Further reading[edit]

• Hockley, Luke (2011). House the Wounded Healer on Television. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-47912-7.

External links[edit]

• Official website at Fox.com
• House at IMDb
• House at epguides.com
• The House MD Project (explains the disease behind each episode)
• Polite Dissent (critiques the medicine in each episode)

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Перевод «доктор хаус» на английский

Это хорошо показали в сериале «Доктор Хаус».

This was well shown in the series «Doctor House«.

Однако всемирную популярность она заслужила благодаря хорошей игре в знаменитом сериале «Доктор Хаус».

However, she earned worldwide popularity thanks to her great performance in the famous TV series «Doctor House«.

Доктор Хаус, я Себастьян Чарльз.

Артистка Оливия Уайлд, известная по сериалам «Доктор Хаус» и «Винил» планирует попробовать себя в качестве кинорежиссера.

Actress Olivia Wilde, known on the series «Doctor House» and «Vinyl» plans to try himself as a director.

начал смотреть «доктор хаус«

I started going to see «Dr. Joe.»

Доктор Хаус ярый сторонник старой доброй усердной работы.

Dr. House is a firm believer in good old-fashioned hard work.

Слушание не по поводу меня, Доктор Хаус.

This hearing isn’t about me, Dr. House.

Только ты и старина доктор Хаус.

Мне надо поговорить с вами, доктор Хаус.

Мне не нужно слышать, что там доктор Хаус рассматривал.

I don’t need to hear what Dr. House was considering.

Но, доктор Хаус, вы были таким замечательным.

But, Dr. House, you’ve been so awesome.

Доктор Хаус, это чистая комната.

А доктор Хаус сожалеет о своём поведении.

And Dr. House is sorry about his earlier outburst.

Доктор Хаус получил пузырек только с плацебо.

Dr. House only got a bottle with placebos.

Можно и «знахарь», доктор Хаус.

I’m okay with «faith healer», Dr. House.

Доктор Хаус не любит общаться с пациентами.

Dr. House doesn’t like dealing with patients.

Доктор Хаус. рассказал мне о вас.

Dr. House told me all about your situation.

Идеальный пример — «Доктор Хаус«.

Доктор Хаус, вы выглядите намного лучше.

Популярность получила благодаря работе в сериале «Доктор Хаус».

In addition, the drug has received popularity thanks to the TV series «house MD«.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

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Доктор Хаус
англ. House, M.D.
Жанр	медицинская драма
Создатель	Дэвид Шор
В главных ролях	Хью Лори Лиза Эдельштейн Омар Эппс Роберт Шон Леонард Дженнифер Моррисон Джесси Спенсер Питер Джейкобсон Кэл Пенн Оливия Уайлд Эмбер Тэмблин Одетт Эннэйбл Шарлин И
Вступительная заставка	«Teardrop» (Massive Attack)
Страна	США
Телевизионный канал	Fox
Количество сезонов	8
Количество серий	177 (Список эпизодов)
Продюсер	Пол Аттанасио Кейти Джейкобс Дэвид Шор Брайан Сингер Томас Л. Моран Рассел Френд Гарретт Лернер Грег Йейтанес Хью Лори
Студия	Heel & Toe Films Shore Z Productions Bad Hat Harry Productions NBC Universal Television Studios (2004—2007) Universal Media Studios (2007—2011) Universal Television (2004, 2011—2012)
Разрешение видео	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
На экранах	с 16 ноября 2004 года по 21 мая 2012 года
Длительность серии	42 минуты
Официальный веб-сайт	http://www.fox.com/house/index.htm
Статус	Закончен
IMDb	ID 0412142

«Доктор Хаус» (англ. House, M.D.^[1]) — американский телесериал о выдающемся враче-диагносте Грегори Хаусе (англ. Gregory House) и его команде, по жанру представляющий собой «медицинский детектив с элементами драмы». Сериал пользуется огромной популярностью в мире^[2][3] и был неоднократно отмечен престижными теленаградами — «Пибоди» и «Эмми».

Пилотная серия была выпущена в эфир 16 ноября 2004 года на телеканале FOX. Премьера восьмого сезона состоялась 3 октября 2011 года на том же телеканале. Сериал транслировался на различных телеканалах во многих странах мира, в том числе на нескольких телевизионных каналах на территории стран СНГ.

8 февраля 2012 года телеканал объявил, что восьмой сезон сериала станет заключительным^[4]. 21 мая 2012 года на телеканале Fox вышла последняя 177 серия телесериала «Доктор Хаус».

Общая информация

Доктор Хаус (в исполнении английского актёра Хью Лори, получившего за эту роль «Золотой Глобус» в 2006 и 2007 годах) — блестящий диагност со специализацией в двух основных областях: заболевания почек (нефрология) и инфекционные болезни, но из-за некоторых особенностей характера он не является любимцем пациентов и коллег: он замкнут, резок и циничен, склонен к бунтарству. Он не обременяет себя соблюдением правил хорошего тона, и временами кажется, что он полностью лишён чувства сострадания (что, однако, неверно). Лучше всего говорят о жизненной позиции Хауса слова доктора Формана: «Он не нарушает правила, он их игнорирует», его любимое утверждение — «Все лгут». Как ни странно, именно этот подход нередко помогает ему разобраться в самых сложных и невероятных случаях, а значит, спасти жизнь ещё одному пациенту.

Когда-то Хаус перенёс инфаркт четырёхглавой мышцы правого бедра, был прооперирован, и теперь испытывает постоянные сильные боли в ноге, от которых спасается, принимая викодин. Ходит тяжело, опираясь на трость, принимает викодин постоянно в огромных дозах, зачастую — прямо в присутствии пациентов, без викодина он не в состоянии ни работать, ни просто жить; фактически он — наркоман, знающий о своей зависимости, но не желающий от неё избавляться. Инвалидность и наркозависимость влияют на стиль поведения Хауса, он склонен часто оправдывать свою язвительность и бестактность болью. Хаус активно интересуется теми из своих пациентов, кто, подобно ему, испытывают хронические сильные боли. Значительная часть сериала посвящена теме наркозависимости Хауса и попыткам немногочисленных друзей заставить его вылечиться от неё.

Ассистенты Хауса — молодые и многообещающие врачи: иммунолог Эллисон Кэмерон (Дженнифер Моррисон), невролог Эрик Форман (Омар Эппс) и кардиолог и реаниматолог Роберт Чейз (Джесси Спенсер). В четвёртом сезоне появляются новые помощники: девушка-врач Реми Хадли, по прозвищу Тринадцатая (Оливия Уайлд), молодой врач Лоренс Катнер (Кэл Пенн) и пластический хирург Крис Тауб (Питер Джейкобсон). В пятом сезоне по неизвестным причинам Лоренс Катнер совершает самоубийство (актёру Кэлу Пенну предложили должность в президентской администрации Барака Обамы, и он принял решение покинуть эту роль^[5][6]). В конце пятого сезона Хаус оказывается в психиатрической лечебнице: на почве злоупотребления викодином у него начинаются системные галлюцинации, влияющие на поведение. В шестом сезоне происходят частые смены в команде. Временно главой диагностики становится Эрик Форман. Уходит Крис Тауб и Тринадцатая, приходит Роберт Чейз и ненадолго Эллисон Кэмерон. Приходит излечившийся от зависимости Хаус, возвращаются Крис Тауб и Тринадцатая, которая в седьмом сезоне снова уходит и на её место приходит новая молодая талантливая врач-практикантка — Марта М. Мастерс (Эмбер Тэмблин), у которой свои взгляды на методы Хауса. В девятнадцатой серии седьмого сезона уходит в связи с окончанием практики и нежеланием проходить интернатуру под руководством Хауса, на её место опять приходит Тринадцатая.

Другие его соратники — лучший друг Хауса, доктор Джеймс Уилсон (Роберт Шон Леонард), онколог, и доктор Лиза Кадди (Лиза Эдельштейн), эндокринолог, которая является заведующей больницей. В связи с тем, что Лиза Эдельштейн не захотела продлевать контракт на 8 сезон, место заведующего больницей занял Форман, которого играет Омар Эппс.

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Структура серий в том, что касается медицинской деятельности Хауса и его команды, достаточно однородна. Большинство эпизодов начинается вне стен Принстон-Плейнсборо (англ. Princeton-Plainsboro), вымышленной клинической больницы в городе Принстоне, штат Нью-Джерси, где работает Хаус. В начале эпизода, как правило, показаны события, которые предшествуют проявлению симптомов у пациента. На протяжении эпизода команда врачей пытается определить болезнь, вызывающую эти симптомы. Команда приходит к диагнозу, используя метод дифференциальной диагностики, при этом Хаус руководит обсуждением диагноза.

Как правило, в течение серии, по мере развития заболевания, больному ставится от одного до трёх диагнозов, соответствующих всем имеющимся фактам, но впоследствии оказывающихся ошибочными, и делается попытка начать лечение, которая либо не даёт никаких результатов, либо приводит к ухудшению состояния. В связи с этим у больного, его родных и близких прогрессирует недоверие к Хаусу, и когда в конце серии ставится верный диагноз, рекомендации по окончательной диагностике и лечению принимаются с большим сопротивлением.

Часто оказывается, что болезнь было невозможно сразу определить, потому что пациент или его близкие лгали о симптомах и обстоятельствах, предшествующих болезни (например, любовном романе на стороне, венерическом заболевании, употреблении алкоголя или наркотиков, работе, вызвавшей болезнь, и др.), хотя пациент, как правило, не осознаёт важности утраченной информации. В связи с этим Хаус часто говорит «все врут» (англ. everybody lies) или «пациент лжёт» в процессе обсуждения. Часто звучит также фраза «пациент — идиот», которая обычно произносится в контексте обсуждения действий пациента, особенно его попыток самолечения. Практически в каждой серии двое из команды Хауса (в нескольких сериях — даже он сам) предпринимают незаконный обыск в жилище пациента для получения дополнительной информации о пациенте и его окружении.

Нежелание Хауса выполнять обязательства по работе в клинике — частый дополнительный сюжет сериала, — связано с банальностью, рутинностью этой работы. В клинике Хаус работает с пациентами в своей обычной эксцентричной и остроумной манере, часто предлагая нетрадиционные методы лечения и удивляя пациентов быстрыми и точными диагнозами после того, как он, казалось, практически не обращал на них внимания. Пациенты из клиники часто становятся мишенями фирменной иронии и остроумия Хауса, нередко впоследствии жалуются на него. При этом во многих сериях идея окончательного (правильного) диагноза для тяжёлого больного приходит в голову Хаусу именно во время клинического приёма, когда что-то в пациенте клиники, его словах, симптомах, характере болезни ассоциируется с расследуемым случаем. В такой ситуации Хаус может просто бросить приём.

Кроме интересных медицинских случаев, которые в зависимости от конкретного случая имеют более или менее реальную медицинскую подоплёку, в сериале раскрываются отношения Хауса со своими коллегами и друзьями. Со своей своеобразной жизненной философией и противоречивым обаянием, он любит испытывать людей и наблюдать за ними. Но люди, в свою очередь, тоже влияют на характер Хауса; и как они, так и он, хотя и противопоставляет себя окружающим, открывает при этом взаимодействии что-то новое для себя.

Медицина в сериале

Технический консультант сериала, доктор Лиза Сандерс, известна своей медицинской колонкой в газете «Нью-Йорк Таймс». Именно её статьи навели Пола Аттаназио, одного из исполнительных продюсеров сериала, на идею сериала о медицинском расследовании^[7].

Несмотря на то, что медицина является важной частью сериала, действие обычно принимает своеобразный детективный характер (в частности, доктор Хаус практикует незаконное проникновение в дома пациентов в поисках улик, которые могут помочь поставить диагноз).

В начале некоторых серий можно увидеть персонажей, медицинские симптомы которых заставляют зрителя думать, что это им суждено стать пациентами доктора Хауса. Но обычно серьёзно болен оказывается другой персонаж, симптомы которого до определённого момента вообще не проявлялись или казались незначительными.

Большинство диагнозов, поставленных командой Хауса и им самим, связаны с инфекционными, аутоиммунными, неврологическими заболеваниями или заболеваниями печени, то есть в основном связаны со специализацией врачей, работающих в отделении диагностической медицины.

Волчанка

Одно из аутоиммунных заболеваний, волчанка, стало своеобразным рефреном сериала. Однако, как будто осознав это, создатели сериала, в конце концов, вывели волчанку из такого назойливого появления в каждой серии (волчанка упоминалась как один из предполагаемых диагнозов, вероятно, из-за большого числа противоречивых симптомов, характерных для этой болезни). Тем не менее, эта болезнь осталась символической для Хауса. В DVD-издание второго сезона сериала даже был включён сюжет под названием «It Could Be Lupus…», смонтированный из сцен, в которых различные врачи (в основном доктор Кэмерон) озвучивают предположение о волчанке. Из 9-го эпизода третьего сезона можно узнать, что Хаус прячет запас викодина в книге, посвящённой волчанке, оправдывая это тем, что книгой никто не пользуется. В 1 серии 8 сезона Хаус, находясь в тюрьме за действия, совершенные в конце 7 сезона, ставит одному из заключенных диагноз «Волчанка», основываясь на выпадении у больного бровей. Однако, волчанка всё же не обошла одного из пациентов Хауса и его команды. В 8 серии 4 сезона «Лучше тебе не знать» иллюзионист, проваливший свой номер из-за потери сознания на сцене, попал в Принстон-Плейнсборо благодаря доктору Катнеру. Хаус, до конца считавший пациента мошенником, в конце серии ставит ему неожиданный диагноз — волчанка.

Создание сериала

Аллюзии на Шерлока Холмса

Дэвид Шор рассказал, что фамилия «Хаус» придумана таким образом, что она похожа на фамилию «Холмс»^[8]. Кроме того, лучший друг Шерлока Холмса — доктор Джон Ватсон, что созвучно имени лучшего друга Хауса, Джеймса Уилсона (и тот, и другой не выносят своих сокращённых имён — Джон и Джим соответственно). Шерлок Холмс жил в доме № 221-B, Доктор Хаус живёт в доме № 221, в квартире под буквой «B». (В 7 серии 2 сезона можно увидеть табличку 221B на стене дома, которая через некоторое время заменяется на просто «221»). В 13 серии 7-го сезона можно увидеть водительские права Хауса, на которых указан адрес Baker Street (улица, на которой жил Шерлок Холмс).

В 11-м эпизоде пятого сезона доктор Уилсон рассказывает сотрудникам Хауса вымышленную историю про пациентку Хауса по имени Ирен Адлер, в которую он влюбился и которая его затем бросила. Имя заимствовано из рассказа Артура Конана Дойля «Скандал в Богемии». Ирен Адлер — единственная женщина, перехитрившая Шерлока Холмса и пробудившая в нём интерес к себе.

В этой же серии Хаус получает в подарок книгу «Руководство по хирургическим операциям». Книга реально существует и написана Джозефом Беллом, послужившим Артуру Конан-Дойлю прототипом Шерлока Холмса.

Место действия

Действие сериала происходит в округе Мёрсер штата Нью-Джерси. Во вступительных титрах можно увидеть панорамы местности вблизи Принстона, Трентона, Западного Виндзора и Плейнсборо. Прототипом учебного госпиталя Принстон-Плейнсборо является реальный госпиталь в Принстоне, Принстонский университетский медицинский центр. Здание, которое изображает госпиталь в сериале, на самом деле — одно из зданий студенческого городка Принстонского университета (Frist Campus Center).

Съёмки также ведутся в Лос-Анджелесе (Калифорния), в павильонах студии 20th Century Fox. Натурные съёмки проходят в университетских городках Калифорнийского университета в Лос-Анджелесе и Университета Южной Калифорнии, за исключением пилотной серии, которая снималась в канадском Ванкувере.

Подбор актёров и съёмки

Первым актёром, которого создатели сериала утвердили на роль, был Роберт Шон Леонард.

Во время прослушивания Хью Лори считал, что главным персонажем сериала будет Уилсон, а доктору Хаусу предназначена роль его компаньона^[9]. На пробах он так хорошо изображал американский акцент, что Брайан Сингер, один из исполнительных продюсеров сериала, был изумлён, узнав о том, что Лори — британец^[10].

Многие из актёров, занятых в сериале, имеют врачей среди родных. Врачами, например, были отцы Хью Лори и Лизы Эдельштейн, а у Джесси Спенсера в медицинской сфере работают не только отец, но и братья. Хью Лори признавался в интервью, что чувствует вину за то, что, притворяясь врачом, получает больше денег, чем когда-то его отец за настоящую работу врача^[11].

В сериале в ролях второго плана или в качестве камео иногда появляются известные киноактёры, музыканты и другие известные люди, а в отдельных случаях — сами создатели сериала. В первой серии второго сезона роль преступника-рецидивиста сыграл Джеймс Тодд Смит, известный под сценическим псевдонимом LL Cool J. В пятнадцатой и шестнадцатой сериях четвёртого сезона в роли бармена снялся вокалист группы Limp Bizkit Фред Дёрст, а в одной из серий («Спортивная медицина») в роли режиссёра, снимающего рекламу, появляется продюсер сериала Брайан Сингер.

В популярной культуре

В телесериале «Клиника» несколько раз делали пародию на Хауса, в частности, в 4 эпизоде 6 сезона «Мой Доктор Хаус» (англ. My House) и в эпизоде 801 «Мои сволочи» (англ. My Jerks). Также сериал пародировали в 14-м эпизоде 21-го сезона «Симпсонов»^[12] и в «Гриффинах»^[13] 8 сезона 9 серии. Также Мардж Симпсон (сериал «Симпсоны», 19 сезон 5 серия, «Дом ужасов 18») убивает появившегося из рекламы Питера Гриффина, Доктора Хауса и Джека Бауэра, а затем запекает их в хлеб…

В российском телесериале «Интерны» в 56-й серии интерн Левин говорит, что ему предложили пройти стажировку в клинике Принстон-Плейнсборо — название больницы в сериале «Доктор Хаус». В этом же сериале, 35-я серия полностью пародирует сериал о Хаусе. «Все лгут», доктор-злодей, приемы диагностики. В дополнение, герой Охлобыстина подворачивает ногу и всю серию ходит с тростью. В конце серии флэшбек о якобы идее, что сериал «Доктор Хаус» создан после посещения «сценаристом из Голливуда» клиники, в которой работает герой Охлобыстина.

В романе Сергея Лукьяненко «Новый дозор» упоминается Доктор Хаус. Гесера сравнивают с Доктором Хаусом за предложенный им метод мозгового штурма. Гесер якобы не понимает, о чём речь, чему коллеги верят до его реплики «Все врут»^[14].

Роли и актёры первого плана

В первых трёх сезонах членами команды Хауса были Форман, Кэмерон и Чейз. В конце третьего сезона Форман и Кэмерон увольняются, а Чейза увольняет сам Хаус. В начале четвёртого сезона Хаус нанимает сразу тридцать докторов^[15], список которых он сокращает до Тауба, Катнера и Тринадцатой (в серии «Игры»). Чейз и Кэмерон продолжают работать в учебном госпитале Принстон-Плейнсборо в других отделениях. Формана возвращает на работу к доктору Хаусу Лиза Кадди. Начиная с 4-го сезона в команде Хауса 4 врача, а не три, как в первых трёх сезонах.

В шестом сезоне Форман возглавляет команду, Тауб уходит (из-за ухода Хауса), затем Форман увольняет и Тринадцатую. Форман остаётся один и приглашает обратно Кэмерон и Чейза. И сразу же возвращается Хаус (хотя сначала он официально не может работать, поскольку лишён лицензии). Таким образом, команда работает в прежнем составе: Форман, Кэмерон и Чейз. В последующих сериях Хаус возвращает на работу Тауба и Тринадцатую, из-за разногласий с Чейзом из команды уходит Кэмерон. В первой серии седьмого сезона («Что теперь?») команду на неопределенное время покидает Тринадцатая. Начиная с шестой серии («Офисная политика») в команде по протекции Кадди работает студент-медик Марта М. Мастерс. Начиная с 19 серии Марта Мастерс уходит, на её место вновь возвращается Тринадцатая.

В восьмом сезоне Лиза Кадди перешла работать в другую больницу. В Команде Хауса появляются новые врачи — доктора Чи Пак и Джессика Адамс. Также Хаус увольняет Тринадцатую.

• Хью Лори — Грегори Хаус
• Лиза Эдельштейн — Лиза Кадди
• Роберт Шон Леонард — Джеймс Уилсон
• Омар Эппс — Эрик Форман
• Дженнифер Моррисон — Эллисон Кэмерон
• Джесси Спенсер — Роберт Чейз
• Питер Джейкобсон — Крис Тауб
• Кэл Пенн — Лоренс Катнер
• Оливия Уайлд — Реми Хадли (Тринадцатая)
• Энн Дудек — Эмбер Волакис
• Шарлин И — Чи Пак
• Одетт Эннэйбл — Джессика Адамс
• Эмбер Тэмблин — Марта М. Мастерс

Список эпизодов

На данный момент в эфир вышло 177 эпизодов сериала (8 полных сезонов). Премьера 8 сезона состоялась 3 октября 2011 года.^[16] Восьмой сезон официально объявлен последним.

Сезон	Количество эпизодов	Премьера первого эпизода	Премьера последнего эпизода	Дата выхода DVD	Рейтинг в США[17]
Регион 1	Регион 2	Регион 4	Регион 5
	1	22	16 ноября 2004	24 мая 2005	30 августа 2005	27 февраля 2005	28 ноября 2005	7 апреля 2009	13,3 миллиона зрителей (24-е место)[18]
	2	24	13 сентября 2005	23 мая 2006	22 августа 2006	23 октября 2006	23 октября 2006	25 августа 2009	17,3 миллиона зрителей (10-е место)[19]
	3	24	5 сентября 2006	29 мая 2007	21 августа 2007	19 ноября 2007	19 сентября 2007	29 сентября 2009	19,4 миллиона зрителей (7-е место)[20]
	4	16	25 сентября 2007	19 мая 2008	19 августа 2008	27 октября 2008	20 августа 2008	13 июля 2010	17,6 миллионов зрителей (7-е место)[21]
	5	24	16 сентября 2008	11 мая 2009	25 августа 2009	9 ноября 2009	30 сентября 2009	27 июля 2010	13,45 миллионов зрителей (16-е место)[22]
	6	22	21 сентября 2009[23]	17 мая 2010	31 августа 2010	27 сентября 2010	19 августа 2010	26 апреля 2011	12,67 миллионов зрителей (21-е место)
	7	23	20 сентября 2010[24]	23 мая 2011	30 августа 2011[25]	26 сентября 2011[26]	30 августа 2011[27]	TBA	10,3 миллионов зрителей (42-е место)[28]
	8	22	3 октября 2011[29]	21 мая 2012	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	8,69 миллионов зрителей (58-е место)[30]

Саундтрек

House, M.D. Original Television Soundtrack
саундтрек
Дата выпуска	18 сентября 2007
Жанры	Различные жанры
Длительность	54:08
Страна	США
Лейбл	Nettwerk Records

В качестве оригинальной музыкальной темы вступительных титров использована композиция «Teardrop», исполненная группой Massive Attack. Во время титров звучит только инструментальное вступление и финал. В финальной серии четвёртого сезона можно услышать слова песни «Teardrop» в исполнении Хосе Гонсалеса.

Для финальных титров была записана инструментальная композиция Йона Эрлиха, Джейсона Дерлатки и Ли Робертса. Начиная со второго сезона используется альтернативная версия этой композиции, авторами которой являются Йон Эрлих и Ли Робертс.

В связи с лицензионными соглашениями за пределами США, в большинстве стран в качестве музыкальной темы вступительных титров используется тема финальных титров или композиция «Teardrop», в исполнении Скота Доналсона и Ричарда Нолана для вступительных и финальных титров.

В издание «House M.D. Original Television Soundtrack», выпущенное звукозаписывающей компанией Nettwerk Records 18 сентября 2007 года, вошли полные версии некоторых композиций, прозвучавших в первых трех сезонах, а также песни «Beautiful» в исполнении Элвиса Костелло и «Dear God» в исполнении Сары МакЛахлан, записанные специально для телесериала.

Также в альбом вошла кавер-версия песни «You Can’t Always Get What You Want» в исполнении группы Band from TV, состоящей из телевизионных актёров Грегори Гранберга («Герои», сыгравшего также Дональда Ньюбергера, мужа женщины, погибшей в автокатастрофе в одной из серий сериала «Доктор Хаус»), Бонни Самервиль («Кашемировая мафия»), Джеймса Дентона («Отчаянные домохозяйки»), Джесси Спенсера (Роберт Чейз) и Хью Лори (Грегори Хаус)^[31]. В телесериале песня звучит в оригинальном исполнении группы Rolling Stones.

Трансляции сериала в различных странах

США

Пилотная серия «Доктора Хауса» была выпущена в эфир 16 ноября 2004 года на телеканале FOX.

Россия

Сериал очень долгое время не показывался на российском ТВ. Локализацией сериала занимался проект LostFilm, главного героя озвучивал народный артист России Валерий Кухарешин.

На ТВ трансляция первого сезона сериала началась 27 августа 2007 года по телеканалу «Домашний». 10 января 2008 года начался повтор первого сезона, впоследствии были показаны второй и третий сезон. Трансляция четвёртого и пятого сезонов телесериала «Доктор Хаус» была отменена, по словам представителей пресс-службы канала, из-за того, что аудитория канала не совпадает с аудиторией сериала^[32]. Вячеслав Муругов, генеральный продюсер холдинга СТС Медиа, которому принадлежит телеканал «Домашний», отметил в интервью радиостанции «Эхо Москвы»^[33], что показ «Доктора Хауса» будет продолжен (предположительно, на другом канале холдинга). С 21 октября 2009 года по 26 марта 2010 года телеканал «Домашний» показал первые пять телесезонов из 110 серий. Этот же канал с 15 ноября 2010 года по 13 декабря 2010 года показывал шестой сезон «Доктора Хауса»^[34]. С первого сентября 2011 г. начался показ седьмого сезона на «Домашнем». Показ восьмого сезона стартовал на канале «Домашний» 25 июня 2012 года.

• Сериал озвучен компанией «Новамедиа» по заказу телеканала «Домашний» (перевод Романа «Pacific» Кулешова).
• Режиссёр озвучания — Ольга Зверева
• Роли озвучивали:
• Грегори Хаус — Кирилл Радциг
• Лиза Кадди — Лариса Некипелова
• Джеймс Уилсон — Олег Вирозуб
• Эрик Форман — Денис Некрасов
• Эллисон Кэмерон — Людмила Ильина
• Роберт Чейз — Олег Вирозуб
• Крис Тауб — Олег Вирозуб
• Тринадцатая — Ольга Зверева

Русскоязычная версия телеканала Universal Channel начала трансляцию сериала со 2 июня 2008 года.

На канале Hallmark Channel (Россия) начиная c 17 марта 2009 года были показаны три сезона^[35].

В соответствии с лицензионным соглашением, в России и некоторых других странах Европы оригинальная музыкальная тема вступительных титров была заменена музыкальной темой финальных титров.

Украина

Впервые телесериал «Доктор Хаус» был приобретен в 2006 году телеканалом ICTV и озвучен компанией «Так Треба Продакшн». Его трансляция на телеканале ICTV была начата 24 июля 2007 года^[36], но из-за низких зрительских рейтингов трансляция сериала была прекращена. Весной 2008 года, украинский телеканал СТБ выкупил права на первые два сезона непосредственно у ICTV, и начал показ первого сезона 7 декабря 2008 года с пилотной серией в 18:00^[37]. В соответствии с анонсами, не учитывавшими пилотную серию, трансляция должна была начаться 8 декабря, в понедельник^[38]. Формат трансляции: в полночь — новый эпизод, в 18:12 — повтор. Старт сезона сопровождался несоответствием в последовательности показа эпизодов:

• 1 (англ. Pіlot)
• 3 (англ. Occam’s Razor)
• 6 (англ. The Socratіc Method)
• 2 (англ. Paternіty)
• 8 (англ. Fіdelіty)

После высоких показателей зрительского рейтинга были куплены также третий и четвёртый сезон^[39]. В дальнейшем график трансляции был изменён. Начиная с 9 марта 2009 года, сериал выходил в эфир после главного выпуска новостей (около 22:20). Повтор, как и раньше, демонстрируется в 18:10^[40]. С 1 октября 2009 года был начат показ пятого сезона. С 25 октября 2010 года был начат показ шестого сезона. С 12 сентября 2011 года СТБ начал показ седьмого сезона. С 24 сентября 2012 года СТБ начал показ восьмого сезона.

Сериал на этом канале имеет украинскую локализацию. Перевод на украинский язык первого сезона осуществила компания «Так Треба Продакшн»^[41], в дальнейшем же переводом занимался непосредственно телеканал СТБ.

Начиная с шестого сезона за озвучку сериала на украинском языке взялась студия «Омікрон» по заказу UATeam, перевод выполнен на профессиональном уровне. Серии «Доктор Хаус» с озвучкой UA Team выходят на следующий день после премьеры в США.

Другие страны СНГ

Со 2 февраля 2009 года в Казахстане на телеканале КТК начался показ первых трёх сезонов^[42]. С 9 марта 2009 года в Белоруссии сериал «Доктор Хаус» начали транслировать на Первом Национальном канале^[43]. В Грузии с 2009 года на телеканале Рустави 2, были показаны 6 сезонов сериала. В Армении сериал транслируется с 2010 года на телеканале 12. С 16 января 2012 года в Узбекистане сериал «Доктор Хаус» начали транслировать на канале O’zbekiston.

Издание на DVD

Весной 2009 года компания Universal Pictures Rus выпустила первый сезон сериала на 6 DVD. Издание вызвало неоднозначную реакцию у покупателей^[44], в первую очередь качеством звука — русская и английская дорожки в формате Dolby Digital 2.0 (в оригинальной версии звук в сериале 5.1). В издании нарушен порядок серий, а некоторые эпизоды содержат явный технический брак (в них перепутан порядок следования глав, в результате чего после 2-й главы идёт 4-я, финальная, и только по окончании титров — 3-я).

Награды и номинации

Награды

Эмми

• 2005 — Лучший сценарий драматического сериала (Дэвид Шор, эпизод «Три истории»)
• 2008 — Лучшая режиссура драмы (Грег Йатанес — «Голова Хауса»)

Золотой глобус

• 2006 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2007 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)

Satellite Awards

• 2005 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2005 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2005 — Лучшая актриса второго плана в сериале или телефильме (Лиза Эдельштейн в роли доктора Кадди)
• 2006 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2006 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)

Teen Choice Awards

• 2007 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)

People’s Choice Awards

• 2007 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2008 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2009 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2009 — Лучший телевизионный драматический актёр (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2010 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2010 — Лучший телевизионный драматический актёр (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2011 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2011 — Лучший телевизионный драматический актёр (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2011 — Лучшая телевизионная драматическая актриса (Лиза Эдельштейн в роли доктора Кадди)
• 2011 — Любимый телевизионный врач (Грегори Хаус)

Номинации

Эмми

• 2005 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2006 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2007 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2007 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2007 — Лучший приглашенный актёр драматического сериала (Дэвид Морс в роли детектива Триттера)
• 2009 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2010 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)

Золотой глобус

• 2008 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2008 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2010 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2010 — Лучший драматический сериал

Satellite Awards

• 2007 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)

Teen Choice Awards

• 2005 — Лучший драматический сериал
• 2005 — Сериал — открытие года
• 2005 — Актёр сериала — открытие года (Джесси Спенсер в роли доктора Чейза)
• 2006 — Лучший драматический или приключенческий сериал
• 2006 — Лучший актёр драматического сериала (Хью Лори в роли доктора Хауса)
• 2007 — Лучший драматический сериал

Прочие факты

• По мотивам сериала в 2010 году компанией Legacy Interactive выпущена компьютерная игра, в которой игрок сможет руководить процессом дифференциальной диагностики^[45].

Цитаты

• Все лгут (англ. Everybody lies).

Примечания

Литература

• Генри Джейкоби, Дженнифер МакМахон, Дэвид Голдблатт. Хаус и философия: Все врут! = House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies — М.: «Юнайтед Пресс», 2010. — С. 244. — ISBN 978-5-904522-34-6

• Под редакцией Л. Уилсон. Загадка доктора Хауса: человека из сериала = House Unauthorized. Vasculitis, Clinic Duty, and Bad Bedside Manner. — 1. — «Питер», 2010. — С. 283. — ISBN 978-5-49807-733-8, 1-933771-23-2 (англ.)

• Пол Челлен. Доктор Хаус, которого создал Хью Лори = The House that Hugh Laurie Built. — «Фантом Пресс», 2010. — С. 400. — ISBN 978-5-86471-489-8

Ссылки

	Доктор Хаус в Викицитатнике?
	Доктор Хаус на Викискладе?

• «Доктор Хаус» (англ.) на сайте Internet Movie Database
• «Доктор Хаус» (англ.) на сайте телеканала FOX
• Медицинские ошибки в сериале (англ.)
• Перевод медицинских ошибок в сериале (рус.)
• Чьими голосами разговаривает доктор Хаус и его команда? — интервью с актёрами, которые озвучили сериал для белорусского канала  (рус.)
• Секацкий А. От доктора Фауста к доктору Хаусу, журнал «Сеанс» № 47/48

Список серий • Награды • Цитаты • Музыка в сериале
Персонажи	Грегори Хаус • Лиза Кадди • Джеймс Уилсон • Эрик Форман • Эллисон Кэмерон • Роберт Чейз • Тринадцатая (Реми Хадли) • Крис Тауб • Лоренс Катнер • Эмбер Волакис • Стейси Уорнер • Лукас Дуглас • Марта Мастерс • Чи Пак • Джессика Адамс
Актёры	Хью Лори • Лиза Эдельштейн • Роберт Шон Леонард • Омар Эппс • Дженнифер Моррисон • Джесси Спенсер • Оливия Уайлд • Питер Джейкобсон • Кэл Пенн • Энн Дудек • Майкл Уэстон • Сила Уорд • Эмбер Тэмблин • Шарлин И • Одетт Эннэйбл
Создатели	Дэвид Шор • Брайан Сингер

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House (also called House, M.D.) is an American television medical drama that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004 to May 21, 2012. The show’s main character is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a pain medication-dependent, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who leads a team of diagnostic fellows at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in Princeton, New Jersey. The show’s premise originated with Paul Attanasio, while David Shore, who is credited as creator, was primarily responsible for the conception of the title character. The show’s executive producers included Shore,
Attanasio, Attanasio’s business partner and wife Katie Jacobs, and film director Bryan Singer. It was filmed largely in Century City, Los Angeles although the Pilot was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.

House often clashes with his fellow physicians, including his own diagnostic team, not only because many of his hypotheses about patients’ illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights, but due to his perception that he is in near constant pain. His flouting of hospital rules and procedures frequently leads him into conflict with his boss, hospital administrator and Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein). House’s only true friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), head of the Department of Oncology. During the first three seasons, House’s diagnostic team consists of Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), a cardiologist, intensivist and surgeon. Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), an immunologist, and new team member Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), a neurologist. At the end of Season 3, this team disbands. Rejoined by Foreman, House gradually selects three new team members: Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde) an internist, Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), a plastic surgeon, and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), a specialist in rehabilitative and sports medicine. Chase and Cameron continue to appear in different roles at the hospital until early in Season 6. Cameron then departs the hospital, and Chase returns to the diagnostic team. Thirteen takes a leave of absence for most of Season 7, and her position is filled by third-year medical student Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn). Cuddy and Masters depart before Season 8; Foreman becomes the new dean of medicine, while Dr. Jessica Adams (Odette Annable) and Dr. Chi Park (Charlyne Yi) join House’s team.

House was among the top 10 shows in the United States from its second through fourth seasons. Distributed to 66 countries, House was the most-watched television program in the world in 2008. The show received numerous awards, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody Award, and nine People’s Choice Awards. On February 8, 2012, Fox announced that the eighth season, then in progress, would be its last. The series finale aired on May 21, 2012, following an hour-long retrospective.

In 2011, House, M.D. was the most widely discussed television series on the social media site Facebook.

Production

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 attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Fox bought the series, though the network’s then-president, Gail Berman, told the creative team, «I want a medical show, but I don’t want to see white coats going down the hallway». Jacobs has said that this stipulation was one of the many influences that led to the show’s ultimate form. As Shore put it, «We knew the network was looking for procedurals, and Paul Attanasio came up with this medical idea that was like a cop procedural. The suspects were the germs. But I quickly began to realize that we needed that character element. I mean, germs don’t have motives.»

After Fox picked up the show, it acquired the working title Chasing Zebras, Circling the Drain — «zebra» is medical slang for an unusual or obscure diagnosis, while «circling the drain» refers to terminal cases, patients in an irreversible decline). The original premise of the show was of a team of doctors working together trying to «diagnose the undiagnosable». Shore felt it was important to have an interesting central character, one who could examine patients’ personal characteristics and diagnose their ailments by figuring out their secrets and lies. As Shore and the rest of the creative team explored the character’s possibilities, the program concept became less of procedure and more focused upon the lead role. The character was named «House» (from the inspiration of the character, Sherlock Holmes), which was adopted as the show’s title, as well. Shore developed the characters further and wrote the script for the pilot episode. Bryan Singer, who directed the pilot episode and had a major role in casting the primary roles, has said that the «title of the pilot was ‘Everybody Lies’, and that’s the premise of the show».Shore has said that the central storylines of several early episodes were based on the work of Berton Roueché, a staff writer for The New Yorker between 1944 and 1994, who specialized in features about unusual medical cases. Shore traced the concept for the title character to his experience as a patient at a teaching hospital. Shore recalled: «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. A central part of the show’s premise was that the main character would be disabled in some way. The original idea was for House to use a wheelchair, but Fox rejected this. 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. The creators considered giving House a visible scar, but that posed problems with make-up.. The writers ultimately chose to give House a damaged leg arising from an incorrect diagnosis, which requires him to use a cane and causes him pain that leads to a narcotic dependency.

References to Sherlock Holmes

Main article Gregory House and Sherlock Holmes connections

References to the fact that House was based on the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appear throughout the series. Shore explained that he was always a Holmes fan and found the character’s indifference to his clients unique. The resemblance is evident in House’s reliance on deductive reasoning and psychology, even where it might not seem obviously applicable, and his reluctance to accept cases he finds uninteresting. His investigatory method is to eliminate diagnoses logically as they are proved impossible; Holmes used a similar method. Both characters play instruments (House plays the piano, the guitar, and the harmonica; Holmes, the violin) and take drugs (House is dependent on Vicodin; Holmes is often dependent on cocaine). House’s relationship with Dr. James Wilson echoes that between Holmes and his confidant, Dr. John Watson. Robert Sean Leonard 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 diagnostic team has assumed that aspect of the Watson role. Wilson even has a dead-beat brother who may be dead, like Watson’s dead alcoholic brother. Shore said that House’s name itself is meant as «a subtle homage» to Holmes. House’s address is 221B Baker Street. a direct reference to Holmes’s street address. In Hunting, Wilson’s address is also shown to be 221B.

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, «A Scandal in Bohemia». In the season two finale, House is shot by a crazed gunman credited as «Moriarty», the name of Holmes’s nemesis. In the Season 4 episode It’s a Wonderful Lie, House receives a «second-edition Conan Doyle» as a Christmas gift. In the Season 5 episode The Itch, House is seen picking up his keys and Vicodin from the top of a copy of Conan Doyle’s The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In another Season 5 episode, Joy to the World, House, in an attempt to fool his team, uses a book by Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. The volume had been given to him the previous Christmas by Wilson, who included the message «Greg, made me think of you.» Before acknowledging that he gave the book to House, Wilson tells two of the team members that its source was a patient, Irene Adler. The series finale pays homage to Holmes’s apparent death in «The Final Problem», the 1893 story with which Conan Doyle originally intended to conclude the Holmes chronicles.

Production team

Bryan Singer directed the pilot episode and the third episode, Occam’s Razor.

House was 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 pilot episode. Writers Doris Egan, Sara Hess, Russel Friend, and Garrett Lerner joined the team at the start of Season 2. Friend and Lerner, who are business partners, had been offered positions when the series launched, but turned the opportunity down. After observing the show’s success, they accepted when Jacobs offered them jobs again the following year. Writers Eli Attie and Sean Whitesell joined the show at the start of Season 4. Since the beginning of Season 4, Moran, Friend, and Lerner have been credited as executive producers on the series, joining Attanasio, Jacobs, Shore, and Singer. Hugh Laurie was credited as an executive producer for the second and third episodes of Season 5.

Shore is House’s showrunner. Through the end of the sixth season, more than two dozen writers have contributed to the program. The most prolific have been Kaplow (18 episodes), Blake (17), Shore (16), Friend (16), Lerner (16), Moran (14), and Egan (13). The show’s most prolific directors through its first six seasons were Deran Sarafian (22 episodes), who was not involved in Season 6, and Greg Yaitanes (17). Of the more than three dozen other directors who have worked on the series, only David Straiton directed as many as 10 episodes through the sixth season. Hugh Laurie directed the 17th episode of Season 6, Lockdown. Elan Soltes has been the visual effects supervisor since the show began. Lisa Sanders, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine is a technical advisor to the series. She writes the «Diagnosis» column that inspired House’s premise. According to Shore, «three different doctors… check everything we do». Bobbin Bergstrom, a registered nurse, is the program’s on-set medical adviser.

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 improvised, using an umbrella for a cane. Singer was very impressed by his performance and commented on how well the «American actor» was able to grasp the character. Singer was not aware that Laurie was English, due to his convincing American accent. Laurie credits the accent to «a misspent youth watching too much TV and too many movies». Although locally better-known actors such as Denis Leary, David Cross, Rob Morrow, and Patrick Dempsey were considered for the part, Shore, Jacobs, and Attanasio were as impressed as Singer and cast Laurie as House.

Laurie later revealed that he initially thought the show’s central character was Dr. James Wilson. He assumed that House was a supporting character, due to the nature of the character, until he received the full script of the pilot episode. Laurie, the son of a doctor, Ran Laurie, said he felt guilty for «being paid more to become a fake version of [his] own father». From the start of season three, he was being paid $275,000 to $300,000 per episode, as much as three times what he had previously been making on the series. By the show’s fifth season, Laurie was earning around $400,000 per episode, making him one of the highest-paid actors on network television.

Robert Sean Leonard had received the script for the CBS show Numb3rs, as well as that for House. Leonard thought the Numb3rs script was «kind of cool» and planned to audition for the show. However, he 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». 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. Singer had enjoyed Lisa Edelstein’s portrayal of a prostitute on The West Wing, and sent her a copy of the pilot script. Edelstein was attracted to the quality of the writing and her character’s «snappy dialogue» with House, and was cast as Dr. Lisa Cuddy.

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. After he was cast, he persuaded the producers to turn the character into an Australian. Patrick Dempsey also auditioned for the part of Chase; he later became known for his portrayal of Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy. Omar Epps, who plays Dr. Eric Foreman, was inspired by his earlier portrayal of a troubled intern on the NBC medical drama ER. Jennifer Morrison felt that her audition for the part of Dr. Allison Cameron was a complete disaster. 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. Morrison left the show when her character was written out in the middle of season six.

At the end of season three, House dismisses Chase, while Foreman and Cameron resign. After an episode in which he «borrows» a janitor whom he calls «Dr. Buffer» to assist in a diagnosis, 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 four’s Mirror Mirror, bringing the team back up to three members; ultimately, the decision was made to add three new regular cast members. (Along with Epps, actors Morrison and Spencer remained in the cast, as their characters moved on to new assignments.) During production, the show’s writers dismissed a single candidate per episode; as a result, said Jacobs, neither the producers nor the cast knew who was going to be hired until the last minute. In the season’s ninth episode, House’s new team is revealed: Foreman is joined by doctors Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), and Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde). The candidates rejected by House did not return to the show, with the exception of the last one cut: Amber Volakis (Anne Dudek), who appeared for the rest of season four as Wilson’s girlfriend, and in seasons five and eight as a hallucination of House’s. While Penn and Wilde had higher profiles than the actors who played the other finalists, Jacobs said they went through an identical audition process and stayed with the show based on the writers’ interest in their characters. Kutner was written out of the series in episode 20 of season 5 after Penn took a position in the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.

The contracts of Edelstein, Epps, and Leonard expired at the end of Season 7. As a cost-cutting measure, the three actors were asked to accept reduced salaries. Epps and Leonard came to terms with the producers, but Edelstein did not, and in May 2011 it was announced that she would not be returning for the show’s eighth season.

Filming style and locations

House is often filmed using the «walk and talk» filming technique, popularized on television by series such as St. Elsewhere, ER, Sports Night, and The West Wing. The technique involves the use of tracking shots, showing two or more characters walking between locations while talking. 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». She noted the significance of «the fact that Hugh Laurie spans 6’2″ and is taller than everybody else because it certainly makes those walk-and-talks pop». Nancy Franklin of The New Yorker described the show’s «cool, Fantastic Voyage–like special effects of patients’ innards. I’ll bet you didn’t know that when your kidneys shut down they sound like bubble wrap popping.» «Cameras and special effects travel not only down the throat» of one patient, another critic observed, «but up her nose and inside her brain and leg».

Instead of relying primarily on computer-generated imagery, the interior body shots tend to involve miniature effects and motion control photography. Gale Tattersall, House cinematographer from 2007-2012, was widely recognized for shooting the season-6 finale entirely on the Canon 5D DSLR — the first time a network television show was shot on an under-$2000 prosumer camera.

The pilot episode was filmed in Vancouver, Canada; primary photography for all subsequent episodes has been shot on the Fox lot in Century City, Los Angeles. Bryan Singer chose the hospital near his hometown, West Windsor, New Jersey, as the show’s fictional setting. Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center is the source of the aerial views of Princeton‑Plainsboro Teaching Hospital seen in the series. Some filming took place at the University of Southern California for the season-three episode Half-Wit, which guest-starred Dave Matthews and Kurtwood Smith. Part of House’s sixth season was filmed at the abandoned Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, as the fictional Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital.

Opening sequence

The opening sequence begins with an MRI of a head with an image of the boxed «H» from the logo (the international symbol for hospital) in the foreground. This is then overlaid with an image of Dr. House’s face taken from the pilot episode with the show’s full title appearing across his face. House’s head then fades and the show’s title is underlined and has the «M.D.» appear next to it, producing the entire logo of the show. This was the full extent of the title sequence in the pilot episode. All subsequent episodes contain a longer sequence including the names of the six featured cast members and creator David Shore. Laurie’s name appears first, followed by the names of the five other featured cast members in alphabetical order (Edelstein, Epps, Leonard, Morrison, and Spencer, then Shore).

After the show’s title fades, an aerial view of PPTH (actually various Princeton University buildings, primarily Frist Campus Center) is followed by a series of images accompanying each member’s name; most are shown next to, or superimposed upon, illustrations of the human anatomy. Laurie’s name appears next to a model of a human head with the brain exposed; Edelstein’s name appears next to a visual effects–produced graphic of an angiogram of the heart. Epps’s name is superimposed upon a ribcage X-ray; Leonard’s name appears on a drawing of the two hemispheres of the brain. The producers originally wanted to include an image of a cane and an image of a Vicodin bottle, but Fox objected. Morrison’s title card was thus lacking an image; an aerial shot of rowers on Princeton University’s Lake Carnegie was finally agreed upon to accompany her name. Spencer’s name appears next to an old-fashioned anatomical drawing of a spine. Between the presentations of Spencer and Shore’s names is a scene of House and his three original team members walking down one of the hospital’s hallways.

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». The sequence was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2005. The title sequence continued to credit Spencer and Morrison, even when their characters were reduced to background roles during seasons four and five, and Morrison even after hers was written out. A new opening sequence was introduced in season seven to accommodate the changes in the cast, removing Morrison’s name and including Jacobson and Wilde’s. It was updated in season eight removing Edelstein’s name and added Annable and Yi.

The series’ original opening theme, as heard in the United States, comprises instrumental portions of «Teardrop» by Massive Attack. The piece was used in part because of the distinct tempo which roughly mimics the sound of a beating human heart. An acoustic version of «Teardrop», with guitar and vocals by José González, is heard as background music during the season-four finale Wilson’s Heart.

Series overview

Gregory House, M.D., often construed as a misanthropic medical genius, heads a team of diagnostic fellows at 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 patient’s symptoms. The typical episode follows the team in their attempts to diagnose and treat the patient’s illness, which often fail until the patient’s condition is critical. They usually treat only patients whom other doctors have not accurately diagnosed, and House routinely rejects cases that he does not find interesting. The story lines tend to focus on his unconventional medical theories and practices, and on the other characters’ reactions to them, rather than on the details of the treatments.

The team employs the differential diagnosis method, listing possible etiologies on a whiteboard, then eliminating most of them, usually because one of the team (most often House) provides logical reasons for ruling them out. Typically, the patient is misdiagnosed at least once and accordingly receives some treatments that are at best useless; this usually causes further complications, but—as the nature of the complications often provides valuable new evidence—eventually these help them diagnose the patient correctly. House often tends to arrive at the correct diagnosis seemingly out of the blue, often inspired by a passing remark made by another character. Diagnoses range from relatively common to very rare diseases.

The team faces many diagnostic difficulties from patients’ concealment of symptoms, circumstances, or personal histories, so House frequently proclaims during the team’s deliberations, «The patient is lying», or mutters «Everybody lies»; such an assumption guides House’s decisions and diagnoses, and makes the countermeasure of housebreaking a routine procedure. Because many of his hypotheses are based on epiphanies or controversial insights, he often has trouble obtaining permission for medical procedures he considers necessary from his superior, who in all but the final season is hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy. This is especially the case when the proposed procedures involve a high degree of risk or are ethically questionable. Frequent disagreements occur between House and his team, especially Cameron, whose standards of medical ethics are more conservative than those of the other characters.

Like all of the hospital’s doctors, House is required to treat patients in the facility’s walk-in clinic. His grudging fulfillment of this duty, or his creative methods of avoiding it, constitute a recurring subplot, which often serves as the series’ comic relief. During clinic duty, House confounds patients with unwelcome observations 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. Analogies with some of the simple cases in the clinic occasionally inspire insights that help solve the team’s case.

A significant plot element is House’s use of Vicodin to manage pain, caused by an infarction in his quadriceps muscle five years before the show’s first season, which also forces him to use a cane. In the first season, 11th 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». His addiction has led his colleagues, Cuddy and Wilson, to encourage him to go to drug rehabilitation several times. When he has no access to Vicodin or experiences unusually intense pain, he occasionally self-medicates with other narcotic analgesics such as morphine, oxycodone, and methadone. House also frequently drinks liquor when he is not on medical duty, and classifies himself as a «big drinker». Toward the end of Season 5, House begins to hallucinate; after eliminating other possible diagnoses, Wilson and he determine that his Vicodin addiction is the most likely cause. House goes into denial about this for a brief time, but at the close of the season finale, he commits himself to Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. In the following season’s debut episode, House leaves Mayfield with his addiction under control. However, about a year and a half later, in season seven’s 15th episode, Bombshells, House reacts to the news that Cuddy possibly has kidney cancer by taking Vicodin, and his addiction recurs.

Characters

Main article List of characters

• Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie): Infectious Disease Specialist, Nephrologist, Head of Department of Diagnostic Medicine
• Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein): Endocrinologist, Dean of Medicine
• Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard): Head of Department of Oncology
• Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps): Neurologist, Diagnostic Medicine, Dean of Medicine (Season
• Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) Surgeon, Intensivist, Cardiologist, Head of Department of Diagnostic Medicine (Everybody Dies)
• Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison): Immunologist, Diagnostic Medicine, (Season 1-3) Emergency Room Senior Attending Physician (Season 4-6)
• Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson): Plastic Surgeon, Diagnostic Medicine (Season 4-8)
• Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn) Sports Medicine specialist, Diagnostic Medicine (Season 4-5)
• Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde): Internist, Diagnostic Medicine (Season 4-7)
• Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn): Double-Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Art History, Medical student, Intern (Season 7)
• Dr. Jessica Adams (Odette Annable): Prison clinic physician, Diagnostic Medicine (Season
• Dr. Chi Park (Charlyne Yi): Neurologist, Diagnostic Medicine

Main characters

Throughout House’s run, six of the main actors have received star billing. All of them play doctors who work at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), the title character, heads the Department of Diagnostic Medicine.

House describes himself as «a board-certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology». Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), House’s one true friend, is the head of the Department of Oncology. Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), an endocrinologist, is House’s boss, as she is the hospital’s dean of medicine and chief administrator. House has a complex relationship with Cuddy, and their interactions often involve a high degree of innuendo and sexual tension. In the sixth episode of season five, Joy, they kiss for the first time. Their physical relationship does not progress any further during the fifth season; in the finale, House believes he and Cuddy had sex, but this is a hallucination brought on by House’s Vicodin addiction. In the finale of season six, Cuddy tells House she loves him. They kiss and agree to try being a couple. Throughout season seven, House and Cuddy try to make their relationship work.

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. In the season-three episode Family, Foreman announces his resignation, telling House, «I don’t want to turn into you». During the season finale, House tells Chase that he has either learned everything he can, or nothing at all, and dismisses him from the team. Cameron, who has developed an affection for Chase, soon resigns. This leaves House without a team for the season-four premiere Alone.

Under orders from Cuddy to recruit a new team, House considers 40 doctors. Season four’s early episodes focus on his selection process, structured as a reality TV–style elimination contest (Jacobs referred to it as a «version of Survivor«). House assigns each applicant a number between one and 40, and pares them down to seven finalists. He assesses their performance in diagnostic cases, assisted by Foreman, who returns to the department after his dismissal from another hospital for House-like behavior that makes him otherwise unemployable. While Foreman’s return means only two slots are open, House tricks Cuddy into allowing him to hire three new assistants. He ultimately selects Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), a former plastic surgeon; Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), a sports medicine specialist; and Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde), an internist (nicknamed for her number in the elimination contest). In the season finale, Thirteen discovers she has, as she had long dreaded, Huntington’s disease, which is incurable.

In the 11th episode of season five, Joy to the World, Foreman and Thirteen engage in a passionate kiss. Thirteen is at first reluctant to start a relationship with Foreman, but the two eventually begin dating and are still together at the end of the season. They break up early in season six. In the 20th episode of season five, 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.

In the seventh episode of Season 2, Hunting, Cameron and Chase have a one-night stand. In the middle of season three, they initiate a sexual relationship that Cameron insists be casual; when Chase declares that he «wants more», Cameron ends the affair. By the end of the season, however, Cameron recognizes that she has romantic feelings for Chase and they begin a serious relationship. After leaving the diagnostic team, they assume different roles at the PPTH, Cameron as a senior attending physician in the emergency room and Chase as a surgeon. They become engaged in the season-five episode Saviors (the episode immediately following Kutner’s suicide) and are married in the season finale. When Chase rejoins House’s team in Season 6, Cameron leaves her husband and the hospital in Teamwork, the season’s eighth episode. She returns as a guest character in Lockdown, nine episodes later.

Early in Season 7, Thirteen takes an unexplained leave of absence. Cuddy orders House to fill her position with another woman, but eventually makes the choice for him: medical student Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn), who makes her first appearance in the season’s sixth episode Office Politics. Thirteen returns in the The Dig—the season’s 18th episode and the show’s 150th—in which the reason for her absence is revealed: she was in prison for six months for having helped euthanize her brother, who was suffering from advanced Huntington’s.

While Jacobson and Wilde play central characters (as did Penn), they did not receive star billing until season seven. They were credited as «Also Starring», with their names appearing after the opening sequence. In season seven, Jacobson and Wilde received star billing; new regular cast member Tamblyn did not.

Recurring characters

The first six seasons of House each included one or more recurring featured characters, who appear in multiple-episode story arcs. In season one, Edward Vogler (Chi McBride), the billionaire owner of a pharmaceutical company, appears in five episodes. He donates $100 million to the PPTH in return for chairing its board. Vogler represented an attempt to introduce a villain, a move urged by Fox. By the time the Vogler episodes began to air, the show had become a hit and the character was soon dropped. Shore said the concept of a villainous boss was not really viable for the series: «It’s called House. The audience knows he’ll never get fired.»

Stacy Warner (Sela Ward), House’s ex-girlfriend, appears in the final two episodes of Season 1, and seven episodes of Season 2. She wants House to treat her husband, Mark Warner (Currie Graham), whom House diagnoses with acute intermittent porphyria in the season-one finale. Stacy and House grow close again, but House eventually tells Stacy to go back to Mark, which devastates her.

Michael Tritter (David Morse), a police detective, appears in several Season 3. He tries to extract an apology from House, who left Tritter in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum. After House refuses to apologize, Tritter brings him up on charges of unprescribed narcotics possession and forces him to attend rehabilitation. When the case reaches court, Cuddy perjures herself for House and the case is dismissed. The judge reprimands Tritter for pursuing House to excess, and tells House that she thinks he «has better friends than he deserves», referring to Cuddy’s 11th-hour testimony on his behalf. House is sentenced to one night in jail for contempt of court and finishes his rehabilitation under the influence of Vicodin.

The candidates for House’s new diagnostics team are season four’s primary recurring characters. In addition to the three who are chosen, the other four finalists are Jeffrey Cole (Edi Gathegi), a geneticist; Travis Brennan (Andy Comeau), an epidemiologist; Henry Dobson (Carmen Argenziano), a former medical school admissions officer posing as a physician; and Amber «Cut-throat Bitch» Volakis (Anne Dudek), an interventional radiologist. Each of the four departs the show after elimination, except for Volakis, who appears throughout the season, having started a relationship with Wilson. In the two-part season finale, Volakis attempts to shepherd a drunken House home when Wilson is unavailable. They are involved in a bus crash, which leads to her death. She reappears late in season five among the hallucinations House suffers.

Private investigator Lucas Douglas (Michael Weston), a character inspired in part by Shore’s love of The Rockford Files, appears in three episodes of season five. House initially hires Douglas to spy on Wilson, who has ended their friendship after Volakis’s death (the friendship is subsequently rekindled). House later pays Douglas to look into the private lives of his team members and Cuddy. If the character had been accepted by the audience, plans existed to feature him as the lead in a spin-off show. In September 2008, Shore spoke to Entertainment Weekly about his vision for the character: «I don’t want to do just another medical show. What does excite me in terms of writing is the choices people make and the nature of right and wrong… and a private investigator can approach that question much more readily than a doctor can.» There was no show featuring Douglas on the fall 2009 network television schedule. He returns to House in Season 6 as Cuddy’s boyfriend. They are briefly engaged until Cuddy breaks it off, realizing that she is in love with House.

Reception

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. Club» approvingly described it as the «nastiest» black comedy from FOX since 1996’s short-lived Profit. New York’s John Leonard called the series «medical TV at its most satisfying and basic», while The Boston Globe’s Matthew Gilbert appreciated that the show did not sugarcoat the flaws of the characters to assuage viewers’ fears about «HMO factories». Variety’s Brian Lowry, less impressed, wrote that the show relied on «by-the-numbers storytelling, albeit in a glossy package». Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle described it as «mediocre» and unoriginal.

General critical reaction to the character of Gregory House was particularly positive. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him «the most electrifying new main character to hit television in years». The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Rob Owen found him «fascinatingly unsympathetic». Critics have compared House to fictional detectives Nero Wolfe, Hercule Poirot, and Adrian Monk, and to Perry Cox, a cantankerous doctor on the television show Scrubs. One book-length study of the series finds a powerful kinship between House and another famous TV doctor, Hawkeye Pierce of M*A*S*H. Laurie’s performance in the role has been widely praised. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Goodman called him «a wonder to behold» and «about the only reason to watch House«. Gabrielle Donnelly of the Daily Mail said that because of Laurie’s complex personality, he was «perfectly cast» in the title role.

Critics have also reacted positively to the show’s original supporting cast, which the Post’s Shales called a «first-rate ensemble». Leonard’s portrayal of Dr. Wilson has been considered Emmy Award worthy by critics with TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Today. Bianculli of the Daily News was happy to see Edelstein «finally given a deservedly meaty co-starring role». Freelance critic Daniel Fienberg was disappointed that Leonard and Edelstein have not received more recognition for their performances.

Reaction to the major shifts of season four was mixed. «With the new crew in place House takes on a slightly more energized feel», wrote Todd Douglass Jr. of DVD Talk. «And the set up for the fifth season is quite brilliant.» The Star-Ledger’s Alan Sepinwall wrote, «The extended, enormous job audition gave the writers a chance to reinvigorate the show and fully embrace Laurie’s comic genius». Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times, on the other hand, took issue with the developments: «the cast just kept getting bigger, the stories more scattered and uneven until you had a bunch of great actors forced to stand around watching Hugh Laurie hold the show together by the sheer force of his will».

USA Today’s Robert Bianco cheered the season finale: «Talk about saving the best for last. With two fabulous, heartbreaking hours… the writers rescued a season that had seemed diffuse, overcrowded and perhaps too ambitious for its own good.»

Season 5 of House was met with a more positive response in comparison to the previous season. It holds a Metacritic score of 77 out of 100, based on ten reviews, indicating «generally favorable reviews». It also holds a 100% approval rating on aggregate review website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 8.1 based on nine collected reviews. USA Today praised Laurie’s performance and the repercussions of the season-four finale, stating «a carry-over from last season’s brilliant finale, House is firmly in the forefront. And when you have an actor of Hugh Laurie’s range, depth and charisma, putting him center-stage makes perfect sense, particularly when you’ve written a story that explores the character and his primary relationships in a way that seems». The New York Daily News noted that «The show pays more attention to relationships we care about, hints at a sensible number of new ones that show some promise, and thus doesn’t rely on obscure medical mysteries to carry the whole dramatic burden», and noted that «the prognosis for this season could be better than last season seemed to foreshadow». Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times highlighted the performances of the cast, especially Michael Weston as detective Lucas Douglas, calling him a «delightful addition». She concluded, «So different is the premiere that the savvy House (and Fox) viewer may expect the revelation that it was all a fever dream. That does not seem to be the case, and one assumes that Laurie and the writers will be bringing a different version of their now-iconic character back to Princeton. Not too different, of course, but different enough.» Conversely, The Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan disliked Weston’s character, calling him «An unwelcome distraction… an irritating pipsqueak». She continued saying «House used to be one of the best shows on TV, but it’s gone seriously off the rails». The Sunday Times felt that the show had «lost its sense of humour. The focus on Thirteen and her eventual involvement with Foreman also came under particular criticism.

At the end of the show’s run, Steven Tong of Entertainment Weekly wrote that «House had, in its final seasons, become a rather sentimental show». In New York Magazine’s blog ‘Vulture’, Margaret Lyons wrote, «More than a hospital drama or a character piece or anything else, House is a complex meditation on misery.» But, continued Lyons, there is a line between «enlightened cynicism» and «misery-entropy», and «as the show wore on, its dramatic flare dimmed while its agony flare burned ever brighter.» Alan Sepinwall wrote, «The repetition and muck of the middle seasons ultimately severed whatever emotional connection I had to House’s personal struggles.»

The show placed #62 on Entertainment Weekly’s «New TV Classics» list. The show was declared the second highest rated show for the first ten years of IMDb.com Pro (2002–2012).

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 audience. In its fifth season, the show attracted 12.0 million viewers per episode and slipped to nineteenth place overall. It remained Fox’s most popular show other than American Idol.

The most-watched episode of House is the season four episode Frozen, which aired after Super Bowl XLII. It attracted slightly more than 29 million viewers. House ranked third for the week, equalling the rating of American Idol and surpassed only by the Super Bowl itself and the Super Bowl XLII post-game show.

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 the show never won the award. For the season one episode Three Stories, David Shore won an Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Emmy in 2005 and the Humanitas Prize in 2006. Director Greg Yaitanes received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing — Drama Series, for directing House’s Head, the first part of Season 4’s two-episode finale.

The show has been nominated for six Golden Globe Awards and received two. Hugh Laurie has been nominated six times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama; he won in 2006 and again in 2007. In 2008 the series received its first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series — Drama. House was nominated for best dramatic series again the following year, but did not win in the category.

The show received a Peabody Award for what the Peabody board called an «unorthodox lead character—a misanthropic diagnostician» and for «cases fit for a medical Sherlock Holmes», which helped make House «the most distinctive new doctor drama in a decade». The American Film Institute (AFI), included House in its 2005 list of 10 Television Programs of the Year.

In 2011, House won four People’s Choice Awards: favorite TV drama; favorite dramatic actor and actress for Laurie and Edelstein; and favorite TV doctor.

Laurie won the Screen Actors Guild’s award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in both 2007 and 2009. Writer Lawrence Kaplow won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for the Season 2 episode Autopsy. In 2007, the show won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for prosthetic makeup.

In 2005, Laurie appeared on the cover of TV Guide as «TV’s Sexiest Man». In 2008, Gregory House was voted second sexiest television doctor ever, behind ER’s Doug Ross (George Clooney).

Distribution

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 premiere on Fox in the United States and Global Television Network in Canada, which have identical schedules. The show was the third most popular on Canadian television in 2008. That same year, House was the top-rated television program in Germany, the number 2 show in Italy, and number 3 in the Czech Republic. The series is also very popular in France, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. In the United Kingdom, the first four seasons were broadcast on Five. Sky1 acquired first-run rights beginning with season five. The original, English-language version of the show also airs in Australia on Network Ten, in New Zealand on TV3, and in Ireland on 3e, TV3’s cable channel.

Episodes of the show are also available online for download: Amazon Video on Demand, iTunes Store and the Zune Marketplace offer episodes from all of seasons 1 through 8. In 2007, NBCUniversal (the show’s distributor) and Apple Inc. (iTunes’ owner) had a disagreement that temporarily kept the fourth season off iTunes. In a statement to the press, Apple claimed that NBCUniversal wanted to drive up the per-episode price to $4.99. In September 2008, it was reported that the issue between Apple and NBC had been resolved. Episodes can now also be purchased in HD on iTunes for $2.99 and all 8 seasons are now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Merchandise

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 fundraisers for NAMI and have featured in ads for the organization that have appeared in Seventeen and Rolling Stone. The show’s efforts have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the charity. Jacobs said that through their association with NAMI, they hope to take «some of the stigma off that illness».

Nettwerk released the House M.D. Original Television Soundtrack album on September 18, 2007. In 2008, the Spanish game company Exelweiss designed a cellphone game for the show, which was released in both Spanish and English versions.

In June 2009, Legacy Interactive announced a licensing agreement with Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group (UPDPG) to develop a video game based on the series, in which players step into the roles of House’s diagnostic team to deal with five unusual medical cases. The game, released in May 2010, included a minigame calling upon the player to «navigat[e] a restaurant-placemat-style maze, in which a giant sandwich must avoid hungry physicians on its way to Dr. House’s office.» It received an F from The A.V. Club, however Legacy updated the game by August 2010.

Episodes

Main article List of episodes

DVD releases

• House, M.D. — Season One
• House, M.D. — Season Two
• House, M.D. — Season Three
• House, M.D. — Season Four
• House, M.D. — Season Five
• House, M.D. — Season Six
• House, M.D. — Season Seven
• House, M.D. — Season Eight

External links

• Official website at archive.com
• Official House Wiki at archive.is
• House, M.D. at IMDB
• House at TV.com
• Polite Dissent (critiques the medicine in each episode)
• «Complete List of the Commercial Tracks Used on House»
• House fandom history
• House (TV series) at Wikipedia

This article is also available in Spanish at es.dr-house.wikia

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This page is about the television series. For the character also called House, see Gregory House.

The Wikipedia article on this subject was the featured article on May 8, 2011. This article uses text from the Wikipedia article under a Creative Commons license. The show is narrated by David Shore.

House (also called House, M.D.) is an American television medical drama that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004 to May 21, 2012. The show’s main character is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a pain medication-dependent, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who leads a team of diagnostic fellows at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in Princeton, New Jersey. The show’s premise originated with Paul Attanasio, while David Shore, who is credited as creator, was primarily responsible for the conception of the title character. The show’s executive producers included Shore,
Attanasio, Attanasio’s business partner and wife Katie Jacobs, and film director Bryan Singer. It was filmed largely in Century City, Los Angeles although the Pilot was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.

House often clashes with his fellow physicians, including his own diagnostic team, not only because many of his hypotheses about patients’ illnesses are based on subtle or controversial insights, but due to his perception that he is in near constant pain. His flouting of hospital rules and procedures frequently leads him into conflict with his boss, hospital administrator and Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein). House’s only true friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), head of the Department of Oncology. During the first three seasons, House’s diagnostic team consists of Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), a cardiologist, intensivist and surgeon. Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), an immunologist, and new team member Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), a neurologist. At the end of Season 3, this team disbands. Rejoined by Foreman, House gradually selects three new team members: Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde) an internist, Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), a plastic surgeon, and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), a specialist in rehabilitative and sports medicine. Chase and Cameron continue to appear in different roles at the hospital until early in Season 6. Cameron then departs the hospital, and Chase returns to the diagnostic team. Thirteen takes a leave of absence for most of Season 7, and her position is filled by third-year medical student Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn). Cuddy and Masters depart before Season 8; Foreman becomes the new dean of medicine, while Dr. Jessica Adams (Odette Annable) and Dr. Chi Park (Charlyne Yi) join House’s team.

House was among the top 10 shows in the United States from its second through fourth seasons. Distributed to 66 countries, House was the most-watched television program in the world in 2008. The show received numerous awards, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody Award, and nine People’s Choice Awards. On February 8, 2012, Fox announced that the eighth season, then in progress, would be its last. The series finale aired on May 21, 2012, following an hour-long retrospective.

In 2011, House, M.D. was the most widely discussed television series on the social media site Facebook.

Production

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 attending physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Fox bought the series, though the network’s then-president, Gail Berman, told the creative team, «I want a medical show, but I don’t want to see white coats going down the hallway». Jacobs has said that this stipulation was one of the many influences that led to the show’s ultimate form. As Shore put it, «We knew the network was looking for procedurals, and Paul Attanasio came up with this medical idea that was like a cop procedural. The suspects were the germs. But I quickly began to realize that we needed that character element. I mean, germs don’t have motives.»

After Fox picked up the show, it acquired the working title Chasing Zebras, Circling the Drain — «zebra» is medical slang for an unusual or obscure diagnosis, while «circling the drain» refers to terminal cases, patients in an irreversible decline). The original premise of the show was of a team of doctors working together trying to «diagnose the undiagnosable». Shore felt it was important to have an interesting central character, one who could examine patients’ personal characteristics and diagnose their ailments by figuring out their secrets and lies. As Shore and the rest of the creative team explored the character’s possibilities, the program concept became less of procedure and more focused upon the lead role. The character was named «House» (from the inspiration of the character, Sherlock Holmes), which was adopted as the show’s title, as well. Shore developed the characters further and wrote the script for the pilot episode. Bryan Singer, who directed the pilot episode and had a major role in casting the primary roles, has said that the «title of the pilot was ‘Everybody Lies’, and that’s the premise of the show».Shore has said that the central storylines of several early episodes were based on the work of Berton Roueché, a staff writer for The New Yorker between 1944 and 1994, who specialized in features about unusual medical cases. Shore traced the concept for the title character to his experience as a patient at a teaching hospital. Shore recalled: «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. A central part of the show’s premise was that the main character would be disabled in some way. The original idea was for House to use a wheelchair, but Fox rejected this. 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. The creators considered giving House a visible scar, but that posed problems with make-up.. The writers ultimately chose to give House a damaged leg arising from an incorrect diagnosis, which requires him to use a cane and causes him pain that leads to a narcotic dependency.

References to Sherlock Holmes

Main article Gregory House and Sherlock Holmes connections

References to the fact that House was based on the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appear throughout the series. Shore explained that he was always a Holmes fan and found the character’s indifference to his clients unique. The resemblance is evident in House’s reliance on deductive reasoning and psychology, even where it might not seem obviously applicable, and his reluctance to accept cases he finds uninteresting. His investigatory method is to eliminate diagnoses logically as they are proved impossible; Holmes used a similar method. Both characters play instruments (House plays the piano, the guitar, and the harmonica; Holmes, the violin) and take drugs (House is dependent on Vicodin; Holmes is often dependent on cocaine). House’s relationship with Dr. James Wilson echoes that between Holmes and his confidant, Dr. John Watson. Robert Sean Leonard 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 diagnostic team has assumed that aspect of the Watson role. Wilson even has a dead-beat brother who may be dead, like Watson’s dead alcoholic brother. Shore said that House’s name itself is meant as «a subtle homage» to Holmes. House’s address is 221B Baker Street. a direct reference to Holmes’s street address. In Hunting, Wilson’s address is also shown to be 221B.

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, «A Scandal in Bohemia». In the season two finale, House is shot by a crazed gunman credited as «Moriarty», the name of Holmes’s nemesis. In the Season 4 episode It’s a Wonderful Lie, House receives a «second-edition Conan Doyle» as a Christmas gift. In the Season 5 episode The Itch, House is seen picking up his keys and Vicodin from the top of a copy of Conan Doyle’s The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In another Season 5 episode, Joy to the World, House, in an attempt to fool his team, uses a book by Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. The volume had been given to him the previous Christmas by Wilson, who included the message «Greg, made me think of you.» Before acknowledging that he gave the book to House, Wilson tells two of the team members that its source was a patient, Irene Adler. The series finale pays homage to Holmes’s apparent death in «The Final Problem», the 1893 story with which Conan Doyle originally intended to conclude the Holmes chronicles.

Production team

Bryan Singer directed the pilot episode and the third episode, Occam’s Razor.

House was 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 pilot episode. Writers Doris Egan, Sara Hess, Russel Friend, and Garrett Lerner joined the team at the start of Season 2. Friend and Lerner, who are business partners, had been offered positions when the series launched, but turned the opportunity down. After observing the show’s success, they accepted when Jacobs offered them jobs again the following year. Writers Eli Attie and Sean Whitesell joined the show at the start of Season 4. Since the beginning of Season 4, Moran, Friend, and Lerner have been credited as executive producers on the series, joining Attanasio, Jacobs, Shore, and Singer. Hugh Laurie was credited as an executive producer for the second and third episodes of Season 5.

Shore is House’s showrunner. Through the end of the sixth season, more than two dozen writers have contributed to the program. The most prolific have been Kaplow (18 episodes), Blake (17), Shore (16), Friend (16), Lerner (16), Moran (14), and Egan (13). The show’s most prolific directors through its first six seasons were Deran Sarafian (22 episodes), who was not involved in Season 6, and Greg Yaitanes (17). Of the more than three dozen other directors who have worked on the series, only David Straiton directed as many as 10 episodes through the sixth season. Hugh Laurie directed the 17th episode of Season 6, Lockdown. Elan Soltes has been the visual effects supervisor since the show began. Lisa Sanders, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine is a technical advisor to the series. She writes the «Diagnosis» column that inspired House’s premise. According to Shore, «three different doctors… check everything we do». Bobbin Bergstrom, a registered nurse, is the program’s on-set medical adviser.

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 improvised, using an umbrella for a cane. Singer was very impressed by his performance and commented on how well the «American actor» was able to grasp the character. Singer was not aware that Laurie was English, due to his convincing American accent. Laurie credits the accent to «a misspent youth watching too much TV and too many movies». Although locally better-known actors such as Denis Leary, David Cross, Rob Morrow, and Patrick Dempsey were considered for the part, Shore, Jacobs, and Attanasio were as impressed as Singer and cast Laurie as House.

Laurie later revealed that he initially thought the show’s central character was Dr. James Wilson. He assumed that House was a supporting character, due to the nature of the character, until he received the full script of the pilot episode. Laurie, the son of a doctor, Ran Laurie, said he felt guilty for «being paid more to become a fake version of [his] own father». From the start of season three, he was being paid $275,000 to $300,000 per episode, as much as three times what he had previously been making on the series. By the show’s fifth season, Laurie was earning around $400,000 per episode, making him one of the highest-paid actors on network television.

Robert Sean Leonard had received the script for the CBS show Numb3rs, as well as that for House. Leonard thought the Numb3rs script was «kind of cool» and planned to audition for the show. However, he 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». 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. Singer had enjoyed Lisa Edelstein’s portrayal of a prostitute on The West Wing, and sent her a copy of the pilot script. Edelstein was attracted to the quality of the writing and her character’s «snappy dialogue» with House, and was cast as Dr. Lisa Cuddy.

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. After he was cast, he persuaded the producers to turn the character into an Australian. Patrick Dempsey also auditioned for the part of Chase; he later became known for his portrayal of Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy. Omar Epps, who plays Dr. Eric Foreman, was inspired by his earlier portrayal of a troubled intern on the NBC medical drama ER. Jennifer Morrison felt that her audition for the part of Dr. Allison Cameron was a complete disaster. 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. Morrison left the show when her character was written out in the middle of season six.

At the end of season three, House dismisses Chase, while Foreman and Cameron resign. After an episode in which he «borrows» a janitor whom he calls «Dr. Buffer» to assist in a diagnosis, 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 four’s Mirror Mirror, bringing the team back up to three members; ultimately, the decision was made to add three new regular cast members. (Along with Epps, actors Morrison and Spencer remained in the cast, as their characters moved on to new assignments.) During production, the show’s writers dismissed a single candidate per episode; as a result, said Jacobs, neither the producers nor the cast knew who was going to be hired until the last minute. In the season’s ninth episode, House’s new team is revealed: Foreman is joined by doctors Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), and Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde). The candidates rejected by House did not return to the show, with the exception of the last one cut: Amber Volakis (Anne Dudek), who appeared for the rest of season four as Wilson’s girlfriend, and in seasons five and eight as a hallucination of House’s. While Penn and Wilde had higher profiles than the actors who played the other finalists, Jacobs said they went through an identical audition process and stayed with the show based on the writers’ interest in their characters. Kutner was written out of the series in episode 20 of season 5 after Penn took a position in the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.

The contracts of Edelstein, Epps, and Leonard expired at the end of Season 7. As a cost-cutting measure, the three actors were asked to accept reduced salaries. Epps and Leonard came to terms with the producers, but Edelstein did not, and in May 2011 it was announced that she would not be returning for the show’s eighth season.

Filming style and locations

House is often filmed using the «walk and talk» filming technique, popularized on television by series such as St. Elsewhere, ER, Sports Night, and The West Wing. The technique involves the use of tracking shots, showing two or more characters walking between locations while talking. 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». She noted the significance of «the fact that Hugh Laurie spans 6’2″ and is taller than everybody else because it certainly makes those walk-and-talks pop». Nancy Franklin of The New Yorker described the show’s «cool, Fantastic Voyage–like special effects of patients’ innards. I’ll bet you didn’t know that when your kidneys shut down they sound like bubble wrap popping.» «Cameras and special effects travel not only down the throat» of one patient, another critic observed, «but up her nose and inside her brain and leg».

Instead of relying primarily on computer-generated imagery, the interior body shots tend to involve miniature effects and motion control photography. Gale Tattersall, House cinematographer from 2007-2012, was widely recognized for shooting the season-6 finale entirely on the Canon 5D DSLR — the first time a network television show was shot on an under-$2000 prosumer camera.

The pilot episode was filmed in Vancouver, Canada; primary photography for all subsequent episodes has been shot on the Fox lot in Century City, Los Angeles. Bryan Singer chose the hospital near his hometown, West Windsor, New Jersey, as the show’s fictional setting. Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center is the source of the aerial views of Princeton‑Plainsboro Teaching Hospital seen in the series. Some filming took place at the University of Southern California for the season-three episode Half-Wit, which guest-starred Dave Matthews and Kurtwood Smith. Part of House’s sixth season was filmed at the abandoned Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, as the fictional Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital.

Opening sequence

The opening sequence begins with an MRI of a head with an image of the boxed «H» from the logo (the international symbol for hospital) in the foreground. This is then overlaid with an image of Dr. House’s face taken from the pilot episode with the show’s full title appearing across his face. House’s head then fades and the show’s title is underlined and has the «M.D.» appear next to it, producing the entire logo of the show. This was the full extent of the title sequence in the pilot episode. All subsequent episodes contain a longer sequence including the names of the six featured cast members and creator David Shore. Laurie’s name appears first, followed by the names of the five other featured cast members in alphabetical order (Edelstein, Epps, Leonard, Morrison, and Spencer, then Shore).

After the show’s title fades, an aerial view of PPTH (actually various Princeton University buildings, primarily Frist Campus Center) is followed by a series of images accompanying each member’s name; most are shown next to, or superimposed upon, illustrations of the human anatomy. Laurie’s name appears next to a model of a human head with the brain exposed; Edelstein’s name appears next to a visual effects–produced graphic of an angiogram of the heart. Epps’s name is superimposed upon a ribcage X-ray; Leonard’s name appears on a drawing of the two hemispheres of the brain. The producers originally wanted to include an image of a cane and an image of a Vicodin bottle, but Fox objected. Morrison’s title card was thus lacking an image; an aerial shot of rowers on Princeton University’s Lake Carnegie was finally agreed upon to accompany her name. Spencer’s name appears next to an old-fashioned anatomical drawing of a spine. Between the presentations of Spencer and Shore’s names is a scene of House and his three original team members walking down one of the hospital’s hallways.

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». The sequence was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2005. The title sequence continued to credit Spencer and Morrison, even when their characters were reduced to background roles during seasons four and five, and Morrison even after hers was written out. A new opening sequence was introduced in season seven to accommodate the changes in the cast, removing Morrison’s name and including Jacobson and Wilde’s. It was updated in season eight removing Edelstein’s name and added Annable and Yi.

The series’ original opening theme, as heard in the United States, comprises instrumental portions of «Teardrop» by Massive Attack. The piece was used in part because of the distinct tempo which roughly mimics the sound of a beating human heart. An acoustic version of «Teardrop», with guitar and vocals by José González, is heard as background music during the season-four finale Wilson’s Heart.

Series overview

Gregory House, M.D., often construed as a misanthropic medical genius, heads a team of diagnostic fellows at 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 patient’s symptoms. The typical episode follows the team in their attempts to diagnose and treat the patient’s illness, which often fail until the patient’s condition is critical. They usually treat only patients whom other doctors have not accurately diagnosed, and House routinely rejects cases that he does not find interesting. The story lines tend to focus on his unconventional medical theories and practices, and on the other characters’ reactions to them, rather than on the details of the treatments.

The team employs the differential diagnosis method, listing possible etiologies on a whiteboard, then eliminating most of them, usually because one of the team (most often House) provides logical reasons for ruling them out. Typically, the patient is misdiagnosed at least once and accordingly receives some treatments that are at best useless; this usually causes further complications, but—as the nature of the complications often provides valuable new evidence—eventually these help them diagnose the patient correctly. House often tends to arrive at the correct diagnosis seemingly out of the blue, often inspired by a passing remark made by another character. Diagnoses range from relatively common to very rare diseases.

The team faces many diagnostic difficulties from patients’ concealment of symptoms, circumstances, or personal histories, so House frequently proclaims during the team’s deliberations, «The patient is lying», or mutters «Everybody lies»; such an assumption guides House’s decisions and diagnoses, and makes the countermeasure of housebreaking a routine procedure. Because many of his hypotheses are based on epiphanies or controversial insights, he often has trouble obtaining permission for medical procedures he considers necessary from his superior, who in all but the final season is hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy. This is especially the case when the proposed procedures involve a high degree of risk or are ethically questionable. Frequent disagreements occur between House and his team, especially Cameron, whose standards of medical ethics are more conservative than those of the other characters.

Like all of the hospital’s doctors, House is required to treat patients in the facility’s walk-in clinic. His grudging fulfillment of this duty, or his creative methods of avoiding it, constitute a recurring subplot, which often serves as the series’ comic relief. During clinic duty, House confounds patients with unwelcome observations 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. Analogies with some of the simple cases in the clinic occasionally inspire insights that help solve the team’s case.

A significant plot element is House’s use of Vicodin to manage pain, caused by an infarction in his quadriceps muscle five years before the show’s first season, which also forces him to use a cane. In the first season, 11th 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». His addiction has led his colleagues, Cuddy and Wilson, to encourage him to go to drug rehabilitation several times. When he has no access to Vicodin or experiences unusually intense pain, he occasionally self-medicates with other narcotic analgesics such as morphine, oxycodone, and methadone. House also frequently drinks liquor when he is not on medical duty, and classifies himself as a «big drinker». Toward the end of Season 5, House begins to hallucinate; after eliminating other possible diagnoses, Wilson and he determine that his Vicodin addiction is the most likely cause. House goes into denial about this for a brief time, but at the close of the season finale, he commits himself to Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. In the following season’s debut episode, House leaves Mayfield with his addiction under control. However, about a year and a half later, in season seven’s 15th episode, Bombshells, House reacts to the news that Cuddy possibly has kidney cancer by taking Vicodin, and his addiction recurs.

Characters

Main article List of characters

• Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie): Infectious Disease Specialist, Nephrologist, Head of Department of Diagnostic Medicine
• Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein): Endocrinologist, Dean of Medicine
• Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard): Head of Department of Oncology
• Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps): Neurologist, Diagnostic Medicine, Dean of Medicine (Season
• Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) Surgeon, Intensivist, Cardiologist, Head of Department of Diagnostic Medicine (Everybody Dies)
• Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison): Immunologist, Diagnostic Medicine, (Season 1-3) Emergency Room Senior Attending Physician (Season 4-6)
• Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson): Plastic Surgeon, Diagnostic Medicine (Season 4-8)
• Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn) Sports Medicine specialist, Diagnostic Medicine (Season 4-5)
• Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde): Internist, Diagnostic Medicine (Season 4-7)
• Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn): Double-Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Art History, Medical student, Intern (Season 7)
• Dr. Jessica Adams (Odette Annable): Prison clinic physician, Diagnostic Medicine (Season
• Dr. Chi Park (Charlyne Yi): Neurologist, Diagnostic Medicine

Main characters

Throughout House’s run, six of the main actors have received star billing. All of them play doctors who work at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), the title character, heads the Department of Diagnostic Medicine.

House describes himself as «a board-certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology». Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), House’s one true friend, is the head of the Department of Oncology. Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), an endocrinologist, is House’s boss, as she is the hospital’s dean of medicine and chief administrator. House has a complex relationship with Cuddy, and their interactions often involve a high degree of innuendo and sexual tension. In the sixth episode of season five, Joy, they kiss for the first time. Their physical relationship does not progress any further during the fifth season; in the finale, House believes he and Cuddy had sex, but this is a hallucination brought on by House’s Vicodin addiction. In the finale of season six, Cuddy tells House she loves him. They kiss and agree to try being a couple. Throughout season seven, House and Cuddy try to make their relationship work.

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. In the season-three episode Family, Foreman announces his resignation, telling House, «I don’t want to turn into you». During the season finale, House tells Chase that he has either learned everything he can, or nothing at all, and dismisses him from the team. Cameron, who has developed an affection for Chase, soon resigns. This leaves House without a team for the season-four premiere Alone.

Under orders from Cuddy to recruit a new team, House considers 40 doctors. Season four’s early episodes focus on his selection process, structured as a reality TV–style elimination contest (Jacobs referred to it as a «version of Survivor«). House assigns each applicant a number between one and 40, and pares them down to seven finalists. He assesses their performance in diagnostic cases, assisted by Foreman, who returns to the department after his dismissal from another hospital for House-like behavior that makes him otherwise unemployable. While Foreman’s return means only two slots are open, House tricks Cuddy into allowing him to hire three new assistants. He ultimately selects Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), a former plastic surgeon; Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn), a sports medicine specialist; and Dr. Remy «Thirteen» Hadley (Olivia Wilde), an internist (nicknamed for her number in the elimination contest). In the season finale, Thirteen discovers she has, as she had long dreaded, Huntington’s disease, which is incurable.

In the 11th episode of season five, Joy to the World, Foreman and Thirteen engage in a passionate kiss. Thirteen is at first reluctant to start a relationship with Foreman, but the two eventually begin dating and are still together at the end of the season. They break up early in season six. In the 20th episode of season five, 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.

In the seventh episode of Season 2, Hunting, Cameron and Chase have a one-night stand. In the middle of season three, they initiate a sexual relationship that Cameron insists be casual; when Chase declares that he «wants more», Cameron ends the affair. By the end of the season, however, Cameron recognizes that she has romantic feelings for Chase and they begin a serious relationship. After leaving the diagnostic team, they assume different roles at the PPTH, Cameron as a senior attending physician in the emergency room and Chase as a surgeon. They become engaged in the season-five episode Saviors (the episode immediately following Kutner’s suicide) and are married in the season finale. When Chase rejoins House’s team in Season 6, Cameron leaves her husband and the hospital in Teamwork, the season’s eighth episode. She returns as a guest character in Lockdown, nine episodes later.

Early in Season 7, Thirteen takes an unexplained leave of absence. Cuddy orders House to fill her position with another woman, but eventually makes the choice for him: medical student Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn), who makes her first appearance in the season’s sixth episode Office Politics. Thirteen returns in the The Dig—the season’s 18th episode and the show’s 150th—in which the reason for her absence is revealed: she was in prison for six months for having helped euthanize her brother, who was suffering from advanced Huntington’s.

While Jacobson and Wilde play central characters (as did Penn), they did not receive star billing until season seven. They were credited as «Also Starring», with their names appearing after the opening sequence. In season seven, Jacobson and Wilde received star billing; new regular cast member Tamblyn did not.

Recurring characters

The first six seasons of House each included one or more recurring featured characters, who appear in multiple-episode story arcs. In season one, Edward Vogler (Chi McBride), the billionaire owner of a pharmaceutical company, appears in five episodes. He donates $100 million to the PPTH in return for chairing its board. Vogler represented an attempt to introduce a villain, a move urged by Fox. By the time the Vogler episodes began to air, the show had become a hit and the character was soon dropped. Shore said the concept of a villainous boss was not really viable for the series: «It’s called House. The audience knows he’ll never get fired.»

Stacy Warner (Sela Ward), House’s ex-girlfriend, appears in the final two episodes of Season 1, and seven episodes of Season 2. She wants House to treat her husband, Mark Warner (Currie Graham), whom House diagnoses with acute intermittent porphyria in the season-one finale. Stacy and House grow close again, but House eventually tells Stacy to go back to Mark, which devastates her.

Michael Tritter (David Morse), a police detective, appears in several Season 3. He tries to extract an apology from House, who left Tritter in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum. After House refuses to apologize, Tritter brings him up on charges of unprescribed narcotics possession and forces him to attend rehabilitation. When the case reaches court, Cuddy perjures herself for House and the case is dismissed. The judge reprimands Tritter for pursuing House to excess, and tells House that she thinks he «has better friends than he deserves», referring to Cuddy’s 11th-hour testimony on his behalf. House is sentenced to one night in jail for contempt of court and finishes his rehabilitation under the influence of Vicodin.

The candidates for House’s new diagnostics team are season four’s primary recurring characters. In addition to the three who are chosen, the other four finalists are Jeffrey Cole (Edi Gathegi), a geneticist; Travis Brennan (Andy Comeau), an epidemiologist; Henry Dobson (Carmen Argenziano), a former medical school admissions officer posing as a physician; and Amber «Cut-throat Bitch» Volakis (Anne Dudek), an interventional radiologist. Each of the four departs the show after elimination, except for Volakis, who appears throughout the season, having started a relationship with Wilson. In the two-part season finale, Volakis attempts to shepherd a drunken House home when Wilson is unavailable. They are involved in a bus crash, which leads to her death. She reappears late in season five among the hallucinations House suffers.

Private investigator Lucas Douglas (Michael Weston), a character inspired in part by Shore’s love of The Rockford Files, appears in three episodes of season five. House initially hires Douglas to spy on Wilson, who has ended their friendship after Volakis’s death (the friendship is subsequently rekindled). House later pays Douglas to look into the private lives of his team members and Cuddy. If the character had been accepted by the audience, plans existed to feature him as the lead in a spin-off show. In September 2008, Shore spoke to Entertainment Weekly about his vision for the character: «I don’t want to do just another medical show. What does excite me in terms of writing is the choices people make and the nature of right and wrong… and a private investigator can approach that question much more readily than a doctor can.» There was no show featuring Douglas on the fall 2009 network television schedule. He returns to House in Season 6 as Cuddy’s boyfriend. They are briefly engaged until Cuddy breaks it off, realizing that she is in love with House.

Reception

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. Club» approvingly described it as the «nastiest» black comedy from FOX since 1996’s short-lived Profit. New York’s John Leonard called the series «medical TV at its most satisfying and basic», while The Boston Globe’s Matthew Gilbert appreciated that the show did not sugarcoat the flaws of the characters to assuage viewers’ fears about «HMO factories». Variety’s Brian Lowry, less impressed, wrote that the show relied on «by-the-numbers storytelling, albeit in a glossy package». Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle described it as «mediocre» and unoriginal.

General critical reaction to the character of Gregory House was particularly positive. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him «the most electrifying new main character to hit television in years». The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Rob Owen found him «fascinatingly unsympathetic». Critics have compared House to fictional detectives Nero Wolfe, Hercule Poirot, and Adrian Monk, and to Perry Cox, a cantankerous doctor on the television show Scrubs. One book-length study of the series finds a powerful kinship between House and another famous TV doctor, Hawkeye Pierce of M*A*S*H. Laurie’s performance in the role has been widely praised. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Goodman called him «a wonder to behold» and «about the only reason to watch House«. Gabrielle Donnelly of the Daily Mail said that because of Laurie’s complex personality, he was «perfectly cast» in the title role.

Critics have also reacted positively to the show’s original supporting cast, which the Post’s Shales called a «first-rate ensemble». Leonard’s portrayal of Dr. Wilson has been considered Emmy Award worthy by critics with TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Today. Bianculli of the Daily News was happy to see Edelstein «finally given a deservedly meaty co-starring role». Freelance critic Daniel Fienberg was disappointed that Leonard and Edelstein have not received more recognition for their performances.

Reaction to the major shifts of season four was mixed. «With the new crew in place House takes on a slightly more energized feel», wrote Todd Douglass Jr. of DVD Talk. «And the set up for the fifth season is quite brilliant.» The Star-Ledger’s Alan Sepinwall wrote, «The extended, enormous job audition gave the writers a chance to reinvigorate the show and fully embrace Laurie’s comic genius». Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times, on the other hand, took issue with the developments: «the cast just kept getting bigger, the stories more scattered and uneven until you had a bunch of great actors forced to stand around watching Hugh Laurie hold the show together by the sheer force of his will».

USA Today’s Robert Bianco cheered the season finale: «Talk about saving the best for last. With two fabulous, heartbreaking hours… the writers rescued a season that had seemed diffuse, overcrowded and perhaps too ambitious for its own good.»

Season 5 of House was met with a more positive response in comparison to the previous season. It holds a Metacritic score of 77 out of 100, based on ten reviews, indicating «generally favorable reviews». It also holds a 100% approval rating on aggregate review website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of 8.1 based on nine collected reviews. USA Today praised Laurie’s performance and the repercussions of the season-four finale, stating «a carry-over from last season’s brilliant finale, House is firmly in the forefront. And when you have an actor of Hugh Laurie’s range, depth and charisma, putting him center-stage makes perfect sense, particularly when you’ve written a story that explores the character and his primary relationships in a way that seems». The New York Daily News noted that «The show pays more attention to relationships we care about, hints at a sensible number of new ones that show some promise, and thus doesn’t rely on obscure medical mysteries to carry the whole dramatic burden», and noted that «the prognosis for this season could be better than last season seemed to foreshadow». Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times highlighted the performances of the cast, especially Michael Weston as detective Lucas Douglas, calling him a «delightful addition». She concluded, «So different is the premiere that the savvy House (and Fox) viewer may expect the revelation that it was all a fever dream. That does not seem to be the case, and one assumes that Laurie and the writers will be bringing a different version of their now-iconic character back to Princeton. Not too different, of course, but different enough.» Conversely, The Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan disliked Weston’s character, calling him «An unwelcome distraction… an irritating pipsqueak». She continued saying «House used to be one of the best shows on TV, but it’s gone seriously off the rails». The Sunday Times felt that the show had «lost its sense of humour. The focus on Thirteen and her eventual involvement with Foreman also came under particular criticism.

At the end of the show’s run, Steven Tong of Entertainment Weekly wrote that «House had, in its final seasons, become a rather sentimental show». In New York Magazine’s blog ‘Vulture’, Margaret Lyons wrote, «More than a hospital drama or a character piece or anything else, House is a complex meditation on misery.» But, continued Lyons, there is a line between «enlightened cynicism» and «misery-entropy», and «as the show wore on, its dramatic flare dimmed while its agony flare burned ever brighter.» Alan Sepinwall wrote, «The repetition and muck of the middle seasons ultimately severed whatever emotional connection I had to House’s personal struggles.»

The show placed #62 on Entertainment Weekly’s «New TV Classics» list. The show was declared the second highest rated show for the first ten years of IMDb.com Pro (2002–2012).

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 audience. In its fifth season, the show attracted 12.0 million viewers per episode and slipped to nineteenth place overall. It remained Fox’s most popular show other than American Idol.

The most-watched episode of House is the season four episode Frozen, which aired after Super Bowl XLII. It attracted slightly more than 29 million viewers. House ranked third for the week, equalling the rating of American Idol and surpassed only by the Super Bowl itself and the Super Bowl XLII post-game show.

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 the show never won the award. For the season one episode Three Stories, David Shore won an Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Emmy in 2005 and the Humanitas Prize in 2006. Director Greg Yaitanes received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing — Drama Series, for directing House’s Head, the first part of Season 4’s two-episode finale.

The show has been nominated for six Golden Globe Awards and received two. Hugh Laurie has been nominated six times for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama; he won in 2006 and again in 2007. In 2008 the series received its first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series — Drama. House was nominated for best dramatic series again the following year, but did not win in the category.

The show received a Peabody Award for what the Peabody board called an «unorthodox lead character—a misanthropic diagnostician» and for «cases fit for a medical Sherlock Holmes», which helped make House «the most distinctive new doctor drama in a decade». The American Film Institute (AFI), included House in its 2005 list of 10 Television Programs of the Year.

In 2011, House won four People’s Choice Awards: favorite TV drama; favorite dramatic actor and actress for Laurie and Edelstein; and favorite TV doctor.

Laurie won the Screen Actors Guild’s award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in both 2007 and 2009. Writer Lawrence Kaplow won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for the Season 2 episode Autopsy. In 2007, the show won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for prosthetic makeup.

In 2005, Laurie appeared on the cover of TV Guide as «TV’s Sexiest Man». In 2008, Gregory House was voted second sexiest television doctor ever, behind ER’s Doug Ross (George Clooney).

Distribution

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 premiere on Fox in the United States and Global Television Network in Canada, which have identical schedules. The show was the third most popular on Canadian television in 2008. That same year, House was the top-rated television program in Germany, the number 2 show in Italy, and number 3 in the Czech Republic. The series is also very popular in France, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. In the United Kingdom, the first four seasons were broadcast on Five. Sky1 acquired first-run rights beginning with season five. The original, English-language version of the show also airs in Australia on Network Ten, in New Zealand on TV3, and in Ireland on 3e, TV3’s cable channel.

Episodes of the show are also available online for download: Amazon Video on Demand, iTunes Store and the Zune Marketplace offer episodes from all of seasons 1 through 8. In 2007, NBCUniversal (the show’s distributor) and Apple Inc. (iTunes’ owner) had a disagreement that temporarily kept the fourth season off iTunes. In a statement to the press, Apple claimed that NBCUniversal wanted to drive up the per-episode price to $4.99. In September 2008, it was reported that the issue between Apple and NBC had been resolved. Episodes can now also be purchased in HD on iTunes for $2.99 and all 8 seasons are now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Merchandise

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 fundraisers for NAMI and have featured in ads for the organization that have appeared in Seventeen and Rolling Stone. The show’s efforts have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the charity. Jacobs said that through their association with NAMI, they hope to take «some of the stigma off that illness».

Nettwerk released the House M.D. Original Television Soundtrack album on September 18, 2007. In 2008, the Spanish game company Exelweiss designed a cellphone game for the show, which was released in both Spanish and English versions.

In June 2009, Legacy Interactive announced a licensing agreement with Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group (UPDPG) to develop a video game based on the series, in which players step into the roles of House’s diagnostic team to deal with five unusual medical cases. The game, released in May 2010, included a minigame calling upon the player to «navigat[e] a restaurant-placemat-style maze, in which a giant sandwich must avoid hungry physicians on its way to Dr. House’s office.» It received an F from The A.V. Club, however Legacy updated the game by August 2010.

Episodes

Main article List of episodes

DVD releases

• House, M.D. — Season One
• House, M.D. — Season Two
• House, M.D. — Season Three
• House, M.D. — Season Four
• House, M.D. — Season Five
• House, M.D. — Season Six
• House, M.D. — Season Seven
• House, M.D. — Season Eight

External links

• Official website at archive.com
• Official House Wiki at archive.is
• House, M.D. at IMDB
• House at TV.com
• Polite Dissent (critiques the medicine in each episode)
• «Complete List of the Commercial Tracks Used on House»
• House fandom history
• House (TV series) at Wikipedia

This article is also available in Spanish at es.dr-house.wikia

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«House» is one of the best new shows of the season that no one is watching.

Yes, it is another medical drama (and haven’t we seen enough of those?) but what this show lacks in originality it makes up in character. Namely — Dr. Greg House.

House is a cranky, cynical highly intelligent doctor with a limp that specializes in weird medical cases. Each week he, and his team of fresh faced young doctors, tackle some new medical mystery. With the use of CSI camera views and mouth-numbing medical jargon, the show tries not to bore you to tears with the specific case.

Still, though the cases are entertaining and puzzling, that’s not why you should watch this show.

Unlike most stale TV cop/medical/lawyer shows out there, «House» doesn’t focus on the cases alone. Week by week we actually get a chance to…GASP!…learn about the characters! But the character that everyone will be obsessed with his Hugh Laurie’s Dr. House.

House, even though cranky and unlovable, is a sweet guy at heart. He’s the type of guy you want curing you. Though he rarely visits his patients, at least he doesn’t sugar coat things for you. He will call you an idiot to your face and you’ll love him for it. Each time you watch you’ll want to know what else he likes besides «General Hospital» and Vicadin pills.

Dr. House is hiding out Tuesday nights at 8pm amid all the other bored-with-their-jobs characters. Whenever you’re sick of case obsessed Gil Grissom or any Law and Order detective, tune into «House».

I promise you’ll at least leave with a fresh feeling in your brain.

Волчанка Овсянка, сэр!

Артур Конан Дойл

Если доктор Хаус говорит, что все врут, врет ли доктор Хаус о том, что все врут?

Апория Формана

Я не говорил, что все Всегда врут, Сократ.

Грегори Хаус

Доктор Хаус — главный герой некогда популярного одноименного американского расового сериала медицинской тематики (House M.D. или просто House). Сериал очень популярен у анонимусов. Почти на всех имиджбордах возникали Хаус-треды.

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Итак, по сюжету сериала ему 50 лет, и он очень редко побрит, а также калека, наркоман, мизантроп, атеист, тролль, лжец, не-девственник, шлюхоёб, дрочер, и просто лапочка. Ах, да, ещё он врач и работает заведующим диагностическим отделением. Хаус игнорирует правила, грубит пациентам (в тех редких случаях, когда снисходит до того, чтобы поговорить с ними) и их близким, ведёт себя вызывающе, неполиткорректно и язвительно острит в общении, временами доставляя немалые лулзы. В свободное время снимает шлюх, ест викодин в качестве лекарства от боли в ноге, бренчит на гитаре и великолепно играет на клавишно-ударно-струнных инструментах и их аналогах. Коллеги и начальство его ненавидят, но не увольняют из-за выдающихся аналитических способностей. Учитывая уровень недоверия к Хаусу со стороны трёх его подчинённых врачей, главврача клиники и его друга онколога, каждый из его пациентов загибался бы в каждой серии из-за неправильно установленных диагнозов со стороны его команды, если бы Хауса вдруг не посещало озарение, и он не останавливал бы в последний момент своих горемычных. Хотя зачастую путь к его правильному диагнозу усеян останками его неправильных диагнозов. Оным способом Хаус отсеивает тонны предположений.

Хаус обожает смотреть телесериал о врачах (General Hospital), играет с йо-йо, мячиком и своей тростью. Кроме того, поигрывает на карманных консолях — вначале на GameBoy, во второй половине первого сезона пересел на Nintendo DS. Затем в одной из серий счастливый аутист подарил ему Sony PSP. В пятом сезоне Хаус таки приобрел спиздил в педиатрии Xbox 360.

Одним словом, Хаус являет собой некий идеал Анонимуса, который не прощает и доставляет: являясь асоциальным по своей сути, он, тем не менее, неплохо ориентируется среди этих ваших людишек и практически всегда оказывается победителем. Отсюда и повальная любовь к циничному доктору на имиджбордах. В зомбоящиках он тоже популярен. Впрочем, этих зрителей больше волнует вопрос о том, трахнет ли Хаус главного врача и своего непосредственного начальника Кадди^[1].

Сам Хаус, равно как и весь сериал — отсылка к Шерлоку Холмсу^[2]: он разведен, сидит на опиатах, обладает энциклонгическими знаниями, невозбранно троллит свою команду, живет, судя по его водительским правам, показанным на пару секунд крупным планом в тринадцатом эпизоде седьмого сезона, в доме 221 на улице Бэйкер-стрит^[3], квартира B, его фамилия значит «дом» и начинается на «H», у него есть друг-доктор с фамилией вида «W-son», он играет на музыкальных инструментах, в двух выпусках фигурирует пациентка по фамилии Адлер etc.

Играет роль Доктора расовый британский актёр Хью Лори. Шикарно играет. Оный Лори известен (более-менее) массовому зрителю ролью недалекого аристократа Вустера в юмористическом сериале «Дживс и Вустер», по детскому фильму «101 далматинец», возможно, по «Чёрной гадюке» и по доставляющем чуть более чем полностью «Шоу Фрая и Лори». Также Хью Лори замечен в роли очень похожего на Хауса персонажа в фильме «Разум и чувства» Энга Ли (цитата: «Мистер Палмер такой душка! Вечно он в дурном расположении духа.») Лори также написал несколько треков к сериалу и является клавишником в группе Band From TV, в которой, к слову, играет еще и Джесси Спенсер — исполнитель роли Чейза. В общей сложности замечено, что Лори умеет играть как минимум на трех инструментах: пианино, гитара и губная гармошка. Алсо, IRL Хью дружит с Робертом Шоном Леонардом, исполнителем роли доктора Уилсона.

Сериал[править]

Одна из причин успеха сериала заключена в чрезвычайном художественном богатстве сюжетных линий и неповторимости каждого из эпизодов: в этом сериал лишь немного уступает расово немецкому порно. В сериале даже есть 1-2 эпизода, схема которых выходит за стандартно-типовые рамки: очередной больной с загадочной болезнью попадает к Хаусу и его команде, и на протяжении 40 минут экранного времени те пытаются установить диагноз. В итоге (чаще всего в последний момент) Хауса посещает прозрение, и он оказывается прав (чаще всего). Установлению диагноза активно мешают сам пациент, его близкие, ложные доказательства, несочетаемые симптомы и взбешенное начальство, а помогают — авантюрные процедуры, провокации и откровенные беззакония, творимые Хаусом и его командой. Параллельно ведется небольшая сюжетная линия из личной жизни самого Хауса или других главных героев, которая часто имеет что-то общее с делом пациента.

Добавляют лулзов короткие сценки осмотра Хаусом обычных пациентов госпиталя, равно как и его постоянные попытки отмазаться от этой повинности (а иногда и от работы вообще).

Схема развития сюжета большинства серий[править]

1. В начале серии показывают человека, который или бежал, или кашлял, ну, короче, кажется, что поступит на лечение именно он, но настоящий больной находится минимум в пяти километрах (до этого он был абсолютно здоровым) и вдруг ни с того ни с сего вырубается (но в первых сериях больной выдавался быстро и точно).
2. Хаус сперва ломается аки девственница, желая увильнуть от дела и от работы (см. выше), но затем ему приходит в голову, что дело-таки интересное, и он берётся, не забыв при этом отпустить в адрес Кадди пару-тройку сексистских шуточек.
3. Хаус быстренько выдает диагноз и назначает лечение (как потом непременно оказывается, неверное).
4. ЧСХ, ровно в середине серии больному становится чуть лучше, и сразу же ВНЕЗАПНО пиздец как плохо:
   • пациент блюёт на чей-то пиджак;
   • у пациента начинаются судороги;
   • у пациента открывается обширное кровотечение (часто анальное, как вариант — пациент обильно блюёт кровью на чей-то пиджак, если не анальное и не оральное, тогда кровь хуячит из ушей/глаз/носа или выделяется сквозь кожу/хлещет из внезапно разверзшейся язвы);
   • поциент уходит в кому;
   • (ну, не всё сразу, конечно :);
   • ???
   • PROFIT
5. Между 28 и 34 минутами выясняется, что пациент скрывал что-то важное.
6. Двое из команды Хауса обыскивают дом пациента.
7. Хаус теперь лечит пациента от другой болезни.
8. В интервале между 36 и 38 минутой:
   • Хаус долго сидит у себя в кабинете и сосредоточено думает, поигрывая при этом в мяч, после чего ставит правильный диагноз;
   • во время разговора с Уилсоном Хауса опять осеняет, и он ставит правильный диагноз;
   • или же во время постановки диагноза другому пациенту (его нелюбимое занятие) Хауса осеняет, и он ставит правильный диагноз;
   • или же не важно кто в разговоре не важно с кем произносит что-то, что, будучи услышанным Хаусом, и направляет последнего на путь истинный.
9. Нестерильно одетый Хаус врывается к больному в палату/операционную и люто троллит хирурга/персонал/больного/родственников.
10. Демонстрируется короткий 3D-графический видеоролик о том, как болезнь проникла внутрь пациента и там развилась (в огромном масштабе со всеми подробностями), — с комментариями Хауса (только в первых сезонах).
11. Если пациент скорее жив, чем мертв, немедленно назначается правильное лечение, если наоборот, то «Вы/мы — идиоты!».
12. Выздоровевший/новопреставленный пациент счастлив/без эмоций.
13. Показывают задумчивого Хауса.
14. Хаус отправляется домой/в кабак к блэкджеку и шлюхам.

• После каждого пункта есть подпункт «а) Хаус язвительно шутит».
• После каждого пункта «а» есть пункт «б) все врут».
• В произвольном месте серии кто-то проводит гастроэндоскопическое обследование.

Алсо, почти каждое появление Хауса на экране сопровождается принятием перорально лошадиной дозы викодина (c третьего сезона прием викодина происходит за кадром, зато в пятом сезоне Хаус не чурается метадона) — кроме той недели, когда он не принимал викодин на пари, имея при этом вид ожившего трупа и будучи особенно язвительным, тех двух месяцев, прошедших с момента операции после того, как в него стреляли, а также полностью избавляется от викодиновой зависимости в первой серии шестого сезона.

Сезоны[править]

• Сезоны 1-3 практически не имеют глобального сюжета, поэтому их можно смотреть в абсолютно рандомном порядке. Практически все серии выполнены по описанному в статье шаблону и довольно однообразны, за исключением нескольких наиболее винрарных вроде «Три истории», «Эйфория», «Без причин» и «Один день, одна комната». Изредка встречаются микросюжеты на 5-6 серий, после чего всё встаёт на свои места. Команда состоит из негра Формана, сентиментальной Кэмерон и флюродросера Чейза.
• Четвертый сезон — самый винрарный. Сдвинул наконец-то сюжет с мёртвой точки и добавил туеву хучу новых персонажей. Однако, по всей видимости, авторам было лень переделывать вступительную заставку, поэтому старая троица «baby-doctors» (© Оливия Уайлд) осталась, хотя и не играет практически никакой роли. Серии пестрят разнообразием и лулзами, а последние два эпизода выжимают из зрителя те слёзы, что остались после просмотра «Титаника».
• В пятом сезоне авторы решили отойти от лулзов и сконцентрироваться на драме, в результате чего он смотрится довольно уныло, хотя и раскрывает ОБВМ «baby-doctors», на которых всем, естественно, похуй, да и самого Хауса.
• Шестым сезоном всё должно было закончиться, так как создатели справедливо решили, что незачем скатывать такой хороший сериал в полное говно. Но к концу указанного сезона особой развязки (как и скатывания в говно) не было видно.
• Внезапно! Шестой сезон кончился любовным поцелуем Хауса и Кадди. Контракт был продлён ещё на два года.
• Седьмой сезон: первая половина крутится вокруг шашней Хауса и Кадди, потом ты понел, к чему это привело. Завершился на отличненько: в конце сезона Хаус разъебал дом Кадди своей машиной, а после свалил бухать на пляж.
• Восьмой начинается с шоу о тюрячке, а продолжается с Форманом в роли главврача. Уже не торт из-за отсутствия Кадди/Снова торт после удаления романтической линии с Кадди. Завершается тем, что Хаус имитирует свою смерть, дабы не загреметь опять в тюрьму за шалости и уезжает в закат с Уилсоном, который умирает от рака. Чейз — новый глава отделения, Кэмерон родила. Все довольны.

Хаус-мемы[править]

• Everybody lies — Хаус не любит общаться с пациентами лично, мотивируя это тем, что «все лгут». Чаще всего именно так и оказывается. Характерная фраза Хауcа в соответствующих случаях, когда ему таки приходится с ними общаться, — «You’re lying!», — которую он произносит с видимым удовольствием и непередаваемым шармом (иногда без очевидного повода, прямо во время беседы). Заметим, что в законах Мерфи задолго до Хауса существовал закон Либермана: «Врут все, но это не имеет значения, потому что никто не слушает».
• Humanity is overrated — точка зрения, высказанная Хаусом в самой первой серии, до сих пор не изменилась. За что его так и любят разделяющие такое же отношение к человечеству анонимусы. Примечательно, что футболку с этой фразой носил финский коллега, не имеющий никакого отношения к Чо Сын Хи.
• Вы — идиот! — выражение обычно адресовано вечно лгущим пациентам и их родственникам. Но Хаус не был бы Хаусом, если бы не использовал это словосочетание ко всем, кто его заслуживает, поэтому коллегам тоже достается. Опять же, весь шарм произношения можно ощутить только в оригинальной озвучке.

• Форман — так уж сложилось, что доктор Форман обладает весьма незаурядной мимикой, за что в эпизоде «The Softer Side» Тауб сравнил его с T-1000. Буквально нескольких движений бровей хватает, чтобы в полной мере выразить непонимание, неодобрение крайней степени и презрение по отношению к предмету дискуссии, действуя по принципу ЩИТО и Свиборга в одном флаконе.
• Волчанка («Это не волчанка») — во многих эпизодах в качестве одного из вариантов диагноза упоминалась волчанка (lupus). Чуть позже выяснилось, что Хаус прячет запасной пузырёк викодина в книге про волчанку, потому что «It’s never lupus». Но втайне он мечтает заполучить себе больного волчанкой и он-таки его заполучает в 8 серии 4 сезона. А также игра слов на lues, то бишь сифилис. Как известно, средневековые костоправы руководствовались лозунгом: «В случае сомнения — ставь сифилис». Кстати, сифаком Хаус и сам было переболел, но всего один эпизод, понарошку, чтобы позлить своих страдающих ФГМ интернов: он прикинулся, что у него рак, подсунув чужую медкарту и кровь. А незадачливая команда радостно обнаружила, что это не рак, а поздний сифилис, и бросилась к нему домой. Тут-то всё и открылось. Впрочем, в одном из последующих эпизодов он тоже подстроил сифилис (по весьма винрарной причине), заранее подменив пробирку с кровью, создав себе возможность ядерного троллинга своих рабов в будущем.

• Викодин — сильное наркотическое обезболивающее, о котором можно прочитать в Википедии. В некоторых кадрах можно увидеть, что на пузырьке с таблетками написано «гидрокодон» (Hydrocodone), что не является ошибкой, так как это та самая наркотическая составляющая викодина. Прочно связан с сабжем, принимал его пять сезонов, излечился от зависимости в шестом и снова подсел на него в середине седьмого по причине разрыва с Кадди. Глотает таблетки словно конфеты, что в реальной жизни давно бы сделало его героем. Заначен дома во всех местах, где только позволяет хитрожопость сабжа. Кроме викодина пару раз вкалывал себе заначенный дома морфин, в одной серии пятого сезона — метадон, а также умудрился посмотреть на музыку под ЛСД, спасая себя от самовызванной мигрени (2 сезон, 12 серия). Помимо Хауса его принимали некоторые пациенты, а сам Хаус несколько раз имел из-за него проблемы с властями и собственной головой. Также в одной из серий второго сезона замечен за попыткой спиздить косячок у Уилсона, скручивавщего косячки якобы для онкобольной пациентки в терапевтических целях. Правда, кража не получилась из-за бдительности Уилсона.
• Люди не меняются — одна из тех фраз сериала, на которой строится большинство серий, и упоминаемая чуть ли не всеми основными персонажами. Больше всех этой фразой оперируют Хаус и Чейз, а Кадди с Уилсоном постоянно тыкают ею Хауса за его характер. Этой catch phrase наши герои хотят сказать, что каким бы говном/хуем/мудаком не была рассматриваемая жертва, она все равно им останется, как бы она ни пыталась измениться. И в большинстве случаев они, как ни странно, оказывались правы.

Хаус и ЕРЖ[править]

Они убили нашего Бога, а ты им доверяешь?!

Хаус про очередного лгущего пациента.

Производством сериалов в США, как известно, занимаются в основном расовые евреи. Но их концентрация в Хаусе заставит срать кирпичами даже самого умеренного юдофоба. Судите сами:

• По меньшей мере три основных персонажа сериала — Уилсон, Тауб и начальница Хауса Лиза Кадди — ЕРЖ.
• Хаус лечил от наследственного расового заболевания ашкенази (попутно вытаскивая из пациента 8-метрового солитёра) и от дегенеративного синдрома опускания почки хасидку. А в одной из серий шестого сезона команда Хауса спасла от смерти расово еврейского порноактера.
• Хаус не прочь блеснуть познаниями в идише (в его речи встречаются слова «тухес», «мазл-тов» и некоторые другие), а также отпустить пару-тройку шуток по поводу своих коллег-ЕРЖ.
• Также создатель сериала Дэвид Шор — ЕРЖ с двумя братьями-раввинами. Кроме него, расовыми жыдами являются один из режиссеров, некоторые (если не все) из сценаристов и продюсеров сериала.
• Хаус имеет «тётю Сару» (пруф в 40-й минуте десятой серии третьего сезона). Да и сам Хью Лори (актер, играющий Хауса) женат на еврейке.
• Часто встречаются специфические шутки. Например, в одном эпизоде пятого сезона Тауб в ответ на просьбу Хауса говорит: «Мы обсудим это на заседании нашего комитета по мировому господству».
• В 14-ом эпизоде первого сезона у Хауса пару секунд играет на айподе «Хава нагила».
• В каждом сезоне есть серия про рождество, и на рождественской ёлочке всегда висит аккуратнейший Маген Давид.
• В первой серии восьмого сезона Хаус говорит главарю нацистской банды, что он и сам ЕРЖ.

Отсюда следует очевидный вывод: «Доктор Хаус» — проект ЗОГа по зомбированию населения. Не исключено, что применяется 25-й кадр. Хаусофаг, бди в оба, возможно, твоё желание сходить в Макдональдс после просмотра очередной серии не случайность!

• В фильме «Лучше не бывает» Джек Николсон изгоняет из кафе парочку — Кадди и Тауба — очевидно, они были знакомы очень давно, о чем Хаус не догадывается.

Фанаты[править]

Фанатов сериала можно разделить на четыре категории:

• Тупые пёзды, попавшие под обаяние Хью Лори и глубокомысленных высказываний его персонажа.
• Тролли и хикки, которым кажется, что образ Хауса ну вот прямо с них рисован. На самом деле, все они, конечно, малолетние лузеры, у которых из составляющих Хауса (ум, чувство юмора, талант, обаяние и прочее) присутствует только асоциальность и, скорее всего, проблемы со здоровьем.
• Студенты психологи и непопулярные психологи, видящие себя чуть ли не новыми З. Фрейдами и Т. Адлерами. Тешат свое ЧСВ, отождествляя себя с сабжем.
• Все остальные. Просто наслаждаются просмотром хорошего сериала. Этот раздел статьи не о них.

Хаусоеб[править]

Хаусоеб — фанат, переносящий ролевые модели из сериала на свою жизнь. Любимое занятие хаусоеба — удовлетворение своего ЧСВ, путем создания как можно большего количества ассоциаций между собой и кумиром.

Так уж получилось, что в пору становления молодого человека тянет к ярким и необычным личностям; зачастую, образ, созданный зомбоящиком, настолько нравится кому-то, что вызывает неумолимые приступы фагготории, желания во всем походить и соответствовать идеалу.

В силу некоторой запыленности модели обычные положительные персонажи не нравятся школьникам. На смену им приходят харизматичные бунтари, презирающие окружающий их социум, но в то же время хорошо ориентирующиеся в нем, способные любую ситуацию повернуть в свою пользу и извлечь лулзы. К тому же, девочкам нравятся плохие парни, говорит нам MTV.

Последствия хаусоебства.

Как опознать хаусоеба[править]

Опознать легко, несмотря на то, что большинство хаусоебов считают себя яркими индивидуальностями, в массе своей, они одинаково серое и скучное быдло.

• Аватар с доктором Хаусом.
• Псевдоинтеллектуальность и эрудированность.
• Фон рабочего стола — картинка с Хаусом или другим особо обожаемым персонажем сериала.
• Носит футболку с надписью «Все лгут» (обычно на английском — «Everybody lies»).
• Разит всех наповал своей едкой сатирой.
• Зачастую луркоеб.
• Зачастую задрот.
• В обычной жизни ничем не примечателен, ничего не добился.
• Прочитав этот подраздел, непременно подумает, что это не про него.
• Прочитав предыдущий пункт, втайне согласится, что это про него из боязни попасть под описание хаусоеба.

Немалую ненависть у хаусоеба вызывает копипаста от жж-тролля evil_ninja:

Сериал официально одобрили[править]

• Артемий Татьянович Лебедев и Татьяна Толстая
• Антон Носик
• Экслер
• Апач
• Номад (несколько лет назад в подписях на форуме Аг.ру у Номада стояла фраза «Everybody Lies», что как бы говорит нам)
• unab0mber
• Василий Стрельников
• Шуклин
• Пейсатель («Новый дозор», ч. 1, глава 5: «Все врут, Антон, — неожиданно ответил Гесер. — Все врут»)

Сериал официально не одобрили[править]

• Андрей Подшибякин
• Унабомбер, после одной из серий пятого сезона

Алсо[править]

• «Доктор Хаус» официально признан самым популярным сериалом 2008 года. Всего сериал собрал 32 награды и 97 номинаций. Вин? Вин! Эпик Вин!
• Хаус разбирается в сортах говна:

• Слово хаус до неимоверно популярного сериала относилось к одной кавайной разновидности нэков, Felis Chaus. Так-то!
• Хохлы иногда называют его Лікар Григорій Хата, честно-честно.
• Украинолюб, пытался жениться на украинке Доминике Петровой, в 13-й серии 8-го сезона в своей квартире повесил портрет Тараса Шевченко и сделал ему изысканный комплимент «А твоя бабушка секси» (Your grandmother’s kind of sexy).
• Ездит на мотоцикле. Но не может пользоваться задним тормозом — голеностоп, стопа и икроножные мышцы у него в полном порядке. Алсо, для CBR1000RR Repsol Replica это и вовсе не критично.
• Доподлинно известно, что за Хаусом прилетало ЦРУ на Чёрном Вертолёте. Днём.
• А еще Хаус утверждал, что его счастливое число — 42. Второй сезон, 17-я серия.
• В Хаусе засветились иконки из KDE4 и KDE3 (в 17-ой серии 2-ого сезона)^[4].
• Хаус настолько популярен, что даже в сериале «Клиника» в 4 серии 6 сезона хорошенько прошлись на тему его кошерности и лукалайкности не менее популярного доктора Кокса с персонажем. Серия называлась, не мудрствуя лукаво, «My House» и доставляла весьма.
• Вторая серия первого эпизода шестого сезона называется Epic Fail (что надмозги из LostFilm перевели как «Великое падение»), что как бы намекает.
• Кстати, о футболках: в середине 3-го сезона Хаус почему-то носит футболку с гербом Рассеи. А ещё панк из 9-го эпизода 4-го сезона внешне как две капли воды похож на нашего русского Свина — мелочь, а приятно.
• В 23-й серии 2-ого сезона старый друг называет Хауса G-Man’ом (Gрегори-из-правительства), что многое проясняет.
• Сабж спародирован (довольно бездарно, тащемта) Симпсонами в эпизодах Postcards from the Wedge и The Squirt and the Whale. Кстати, «Гриффинам» в одном из последних эпизодов это явно удалось лучше: Хауса там озвучивает лично Хью Лори, в качестве гест-стар, а сцена с его участием весьма доставляюще обстебывает манеру Доктора с палкой «играть не по правилам».
• Учитывая, что каждую серию очередному пациенту ставится какой-нибудь экзотический диагноз, до которого даже Хаус доходит аж целых 40 минут киношного времени, то можно сделать вывод, что будь этот пациент в этой стране, то он бы просто сдох, так и не дождавшись приговора врача.
• Фалломорфировав от успеха сериала, русские решили создать собственного, русского Хауса — доктора Тырсу, бессмысленного и беспощадного. Долгое время это считалось то ли шуткой, то ли слухом, но о, ужас! Сериал внезапно появился на телевизере. По сути, тот же Хаус, но с Пореченковым в главной роли, который и в гандон Хью Лори не годится. И не существует такого капс лока, которым можно выразить, какое это ГОВНО. Впрочем, сериал рекламируют и в расовой Латвии, и умеющие читать по-русски латыши, а с ними и все остальные с благоговением читают на плакатах огромным кеглем: «Доктор Жопа», так как по-латышски «dirsa» — да-да, именно она самая (на украинском культурнее — «Доктор Опилки»).
• В 35-й серии псевдопародии на доктора Хату сериала «Интерны» идёт речь о Хаусе, пародируется сериал и даже показывается, будто бы сам доктор Хаус выдуман на основе реального завотделением «Интернов» Быкова.
• В 56-й серии этого же сериала ботаник Левин уезжает на стажировку в Принстон-Плэйнсборо — больницу, в которой работал Хаус.
• В последних сериях 8 сезона Хаус удачно шутит над мужиком-кастратом: «У него тестостерон ниже Бибера», какбе намекая.
• Хаус носит часы Hamilton Khaki King. Я гарантирую это!
• В конце 4 серии 3 сезона Хаус в разговоре выдает диалог из винрарнейшего фильма 1942 года «Касабланка»

Игра[править]

ВНЕЗАПНО выяснилось, что компания Legacy Interactive создает одноименную игру, так что скоро всем фоннатам можно будет всласть позадротствовать. По словам разрабов, новый проект будет представлять собой сборник из более чем сотни различных мини-игр. Геймерам предстоит решить пять медицинских загадок и поставить верные диагнозы, общаясь с пациентами, а также проводя лабораторные исследования и хирургические операции. Игра должна была выйти в феврале 2010 года, но вышла осенью. На AG сами игроки оценили средний балл по больнице в 32%, а редакция и вовсе не стала ни оценивать, ни писать рецензию (по состоянию на май 2011). В общем и целом — игра придётся по вкусу только особо упоротым задротам.

Галерея[править]

Примечания[править]