"way to Dr. House's office."" It received an F from ""The A.V. Club""; however, Legacy updated the game by August 2010. House (TV series) 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 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,"
"Gregory House Gregory House, M.D. (born 1959) is the title character of the American medical drama series ""House"". Created by David Shore and portrayed by English actor Hugh Laurie, he leads a team of diagnosticians as the Head of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey. House's character has been described as a misanthrope, cynic, narcissist, and curmudgeon, the last of which was named one of the top television words of 2005 in honor of the character. House is the only character to appear in all 177 episodes and, except for Wilson's brief appearance, is"
"two Satellite Awards for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama, and two TCA Awards for Individual Achievement in Drama. Laurie has also earned a total of six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Gregory House Gregory House, M.D. (born 1959) is the title character of the American medical drama series ""House"". Created by David Shore and portrayed by English actor Hugh Laurie, he leads a team of diagnosticians as the Head of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey."
"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. 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),"
"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. However, in the finale of season seven, House drives his car into Cuddy's living room in anger and their relationship effectively ends. 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"
"Michael Tritter Detective Michael Tritter is a recurring fictional character in the medical drama series ""House"", portrayed by David Morse. He is the main antagonist of the third season, which ran between 2006 and 2007. Tritter is a police detective, who tries to get Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) to apologize for leaving him in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum. After House refuses to apologize, Tritter researches House's background and discovers his Vicodin addiction. Tritter turns people close to House against him and forces House to go to rehab. When the case ultimately comes to court,"
"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. 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"
"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 part, due to the nature of the character, until he received the full script of the pilot episode. Laurie, the son of medical doctor Ran Laurie, said he felt"
"Broken (House) ""Broken"" is the title for the first episode of the sixth season of the television series ""House"". It is a two-part season premiere, being first broadcast on Fox on September 21, 2009. The narrative follows series protagonist Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) as he overcomes his Vicodin addiction and psychological problems at Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. Receiving season-high ratings, the episode garnered positive reviews from critics. The performance of Hugh Laurie was also applauded. House awakens in the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital after suffering through the painful effects of Vicodin withdrawal. He asks to leave knowing that they legally cannot"
"House, but British actor Hugh Laurie's audition convinced him that a foreign actor could play the role. Shore wrote House as a character with parallels to Sherlock Holmes—both are drug users, blunt, and close to being friendless. The show's producers wanted House handicapped in some way and gave the character a damaged leg arising from an improper diagnosis. The episode received generally positive reviews; the character of House was widely noted as a unique aspect of the episode and series, though some reviewers believed that such a cruel character would not be tolerated in real life. Other complaints with the"
"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 ten series 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"
"in Drama, and a total of six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Gregory House was born to John and Blythe House on June 11, 1959, or May 15, 1959. House is a military brat; his father served as a Marine Corps aviator and transferred often to other bases during House's childhood. House presumably picked up his affinity for languages during this period and shows a level of understanding of Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yiddish. One place in which his father was stationed was Egypt, where House developed a fascination with archaeology"
"Morse's submission of the episode ""Finding Judas"" for a 2007 Emmy Awards consideration was accepted in the category of ""Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series"". The award eventually went to John Goodman for ""Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"". Michael Tritter Detective Michael Tritter is a recurring fictional character in the medical drama series ""House"", portrayed by David Morse. He is the main antagonist of the third season, which ran between 2006 and 2007. Tritter is a police detective, who tries to get Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) to apologize for leaving him in an examination room with a"
"house and comatose, Danny is the prime suspect. As the other characters work to reveal the identity of Julie's attacker, her affair with Danny's father, Nick (Jeffrey Nordling), and a pregnancy scare prior to the attack are exposed. Several months after waking up from her coma, Julie decides to visit relatives on the East Coast until her attacker is caught. In the episode ""Epiphany"", Julie's attacker is revealed to be Eddie Orlofsky (Josh Zuckerman), who mistook her for Susan and was planning to attack her for rejecting him. Julie is not seen again until the seventh season episode ""Where Do"
"living room, House has five days before he is granted parole, to which he has become eligible due to space issues and relatively good behavior. He is faced with prison bullies, mainly their leader (Jude Ciccolella), who extorts him into paying them ""twenty Vicodin"" as ""exit tax"", and meets Jessica Adams (Odette Annable), a young prison doctor who becomes fascinated with his medical skills. When a fellow prisoner collapses due to mysterious symptoms, House races against the clock and the head prison doctor to find the cure. During his imprisonment period, House has not had any phone calls or visitors;"
"Pilot (House) ""Pilot"", also known as ""Everybody Lies"", is the first episode of the U.S. television series ""House"". The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. It introduces the character of Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie)—a maverick antisocial doctor—and his team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. The episode features House's attempts to diagnose a kindergarten teacher after she collapses in class. ""House"" was created by David Shore, who got the idea for the misanthropic title character from a doctor's visit. Initially, producer Bryan Singer wanted an American to play"
"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"
"The Big House (2004 TV series) The Big House is an American prime time television sitcom starring actor/comedian Kevin Hart. It ran on the ABC television network in April 2004, lasting for only six episodes. The series represents a mirror-opposite of the NBC sitcom ""The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"". Kevin Hart is a wealthy, pampered student from Malibu. After his father is arrested and imprisoned for embezzlement, Kevin moves to Philadelphia to live with his working-class aunt, uncle and cousins (the Cleveland family), and enrolls in Drexel University. Olive Films, under license from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, has released"
"season four'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 Actor – 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 2005 Peabody Award for what the Peabody board called an ""unorthodox lead character—a misanthropic diagnostician"""
"as House explains, human contact is what brought him there to begin with. In the end, House cures the man, but not without punishment from the parole board. ""Twenty Vicodin"", the eighth season premiere of ""House"", was written by Peter Blake. It debuted actress Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams, a doctor working at the prison where Dr. House is incarcerated. David Shore stated that it was a challenge for him to appropriately punish House for the deed in the season 7 finale without turning the series into a prison show or changing House's characteristics (while changing the environment around"
"also has a brother, Marcus (played by Orlando Jones), who was incarcerated for drug possession until the season 6 episode ""Moving the Chains"". Although he has a somewhat estranged relationship with his parents, the show depicts them as loving, though his father is emotionally distant. By the end of the series (season 8), Foreman has become the Dean of Medicine (replacing Cuddy) and one of the few people House trusts intimately. In the final scenes of the series, Foreman and Wilson are the only two people who know that House is still alive after everyone thinks he died in a"
"House! House! is a 2000 British comedy film written by Eric Styles and Jason Sutton and directed by Julian Kemp. The film stars Kelly Macdonald, Freddie Jones, Miriam Margolyes and Jason Hughes. The aging ""La Scala"" bingo hall is administered by Welsh-Italian Giovanni Anzani (Freddie Jones). In its heyday, it was the United Kingdom's biggest bingo hall, but its glory days are gone... and though the facility is run-down, the staff is loyal. Gavin (Jason Hughes) is the cheeky bingo caller. When a large international conglomerate announces they are about to open a huge family entertainment center nearby, promising competition"
"father Jeremiah (Glynn Turman) and his confidently flamboyant son Roscoe (Donis Leonard, Jr). The main character, Marty, often breaks the fourth wall; he talks to the viewers in a freeze-frame bit in which he alone moves and the others in the background 'freeze' but continue where they left off. Alternatively, he talks to the audience while everyone moves but the others seem oblivious to the fact that he is on a monologue. The series is executive produced by Matthew Carnahan, Jessika Borsiczky, and Stephen Hopkins, with the pilot written by Carnahan and directed by Hopkins. On December 13, 2010, ""House"
"House (season 6) The sixth season of ""House"" premiered on September 21, 2009, with a two-hour premiere. The season premiere, titled ""Broken"", was filmed at the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey. It is the first season of ""House"" to feature Hugh Laurie as the only original cast member in all twenty two episodes, and the last season to feature Jennifer Morrison as a main cast member. Season six featured 22 episodes, two fewer than the usual amount. In the United Kingdom, the series began airing on Sky 1 and Sky 1 HD on October 4, 2009, two weeks"
"a cane. This dependency is also one of the many parallels to Holmes, who was a habitual user of cocaine. The character received generally positive reviews and was included in several best lists. Tom Shales of ""The Washington Post"" called House ""the most electrifying character to hit television in years"". For his portrayal, Laurie won various awards, including two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama, two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor from Drama Series, two Satellite Awards for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama, two TCA Awards for Individual Achievement"
"House"" (which was also created by Jeff Franklin and set in the San Francisco Bay Area). The show found its niche as an addition to the ""TGIF"" Friday night lineup on ABC, and was part of the lineup from September 1993 to May 1996 (spanning the show's second, third and fourth seasons; airing in-between ""Step By Step"" and the news magazine series ""20/20""), before moving to Saturdays for its fifth and final season. The series, set in Oakland, California (Mark Curry's hometown), centers on NBA player-turned-substitute teacher/gym coach (and later basketball coach) Mark Cooper. Mark is a ""somewhat suave"" single"
"House, M.D., often construed as a misanthropic medical genius, heads a team of diagnosticians at the Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. 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. 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"
"Selfish (House) ""Selfish"" is the second episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama ""House"". It aired on September 27, 2010. House (Hugh Laurie) treats a patient with sickle cell trait, while dealing with the effects of his burgeoning relationship with Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) on his work. The patient of the week is Della Carr, an active and seemingly healthy teenager, who suddenly collapses with heart arrhythmia at a charity function for congenital muscular dystrophy, which her brother Hugo suffers from. At the hospital, she develops further symptoms of kidney failure and bleeding lung, which requires her"
"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"
"why his character would ever be friends with House, Leonard replied: Australian actor Jesse Spencer's agent suggested that Spencer audition for the role of Chase, but he was hesitant, fearing the show might be similar to ""General Hospital"". Once the actor saw the scripts, he changed his mind; Spencer then persuaded the producers to change his character into an Australian. Omar Epps, who plays Foreman, found influence from his work as a troubled intern on the TV show ""ER"". Epps and co-star Jennifer Morrison read the scripts and believed that the show would be either a hit or miss. ""House""s"
"House by Fitz, and later joined the presidential campaign for President. Tony Goldwyn continued to portray President Fitzgerald ""Fitz"" Thomas Grant III. Scott Foley portrayed Jake Ballard a former B613 agent and later the head of the NSA. On May 14, 2015, after the fourth-season finale, it was announced that Portia de Rossi had been promoted to a series regular for the fifth season. ""TVLine"" reported in late April that a new gladiator would be added to Olivia Pope & Associates, and the person would be a guest star. It was also announced on July 7, 2015, that Cornelius Smith"
"Living the Dream (House) ""Living the Dream"" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of ""House"", and aired on May 5, 2008. House (Hugh Laurie) is convinced that one of the actors on his favorite soap opera ""Prescription: Passion"" (guest star Jason Lewis) has a serious medical condition after observing his symptoms on television. House decides to intervene, kidnaps the actor and convinces him to run a test, but both the actor and House’s own team dismiss House’s assessment and do not believe there is anything wrong with him. However, the actor develops more symptoms: His leg goes numb"
"Critics have described the character as ""moody"", ""bitter"", ""antagonistic"", ""misanthropic"", ""cynical"", ""grumpy"", ""maverick"", ""anarchist"", ""sociopath"", and a ""curmudgeon"". The Global Language Monitor chose the word ""curmudgeon"" as the best way to describe the character. Laurie describes House as a character who refuses to ""obey the usual pieties of modern life"" and expects to find a rare diagnosis when he is treating his patient. Many aspects of his personality are the antithesis of what might be expected from a doctor. Executive producer Katie Jacobs views House as a static character who is accustomed to living in misery. Jacobs has said that"