House M.D.
Overview
House M.D. is a 2004 medical drama television series created by David Shore for Fox. The series stars Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant, misanthropic, and unconventional diagnostician who leads a team of doctors at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. House is a genius, but he is also a drug addict, a misanthrope, and a deeply unhappy man. He is based on Sherlock Holmes: he uses deductive reasoning to solve medical mysteries, he plays a musical instrument (the piano), and he has a close friend, Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), who is his only confidant. House is a jerk to his patients, to his colleagues, and to his boss, Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein). He is also a brilliant doctor who saves lives. His team of diagnosticians includes: Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), a former neurologist; Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), an immunologist; Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), an intensivist; and later, Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde) and Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson). The series is a medical procedural, but it is also a character study of a brilliant, broken man. The series is famous for its "differential diagnosis" scenes, where the team discusses possible diagnoses. House M.D. was a critical and commercial success, winning two Golden Globes and a Peabody Award. Hugh Laurie won two Golden Globes for Best Actor.
