May 15, 2008
FOX is the final network to have its upfronts this week. As far as upfront weeks go, it hasn't been the most exciting. In this Internet age we live in, secrets are almost impossible to keep – we all knew which shows were being canceled and which weren't. We knew which new series were going to be picked up. The one thing that networks can keep secret, however, are their final schedules. FOX released two schedules today, one for Fall and one for the Spring. Below, you will find the Fall schedule, followed by a look at the new series and some commentary.
May 12, 2008
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Following last week's extra hilarious episode featuring Sex and the City's Jason Lewis, tonight marks the first of a two-part season finale on House. The all-too interrupted season comes to a close next week with the broadcast of the second and concluding half.
Here's a look at what's in store in tonight's episode entitled “House's Head” along with star Lisa Edelstein's (Lisa Cuddy) own personal thoughts on why it meant getting her dressed as a schoolgirl and working a strip pole.
May 5, 2008
Hugh Laurie and the rest of House are back tonight with another brand-new episode of their hit medical drama. Tonight's offering entitled “Living the Dream” is the second post-strike original episode following last week's “No More Mr. Nice Guy.”
Jason Lewis, the sexy young stud who romanced and eventually won the heart of the no-strings-attached Samantha (Kim Cattrall) in HBO's Sex and the City, guest-stars as an actor on House's favorite daytime drama.
April 28, 2008
Olivia Wilde has joined the cast of House in fall 2007, playing a recurring character nicknamed Thirteen who will work closely with Dr. House. After 11 episodes, she has signed on as a regular, returning tonight on the FOX medical drama as part of the new diagnostic team.
Just like her character Thirteen who competed with other young doctors for a limited number of spots on the medical team of Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), Wilde reveals that she and the other newbies weren't also sure which of them would be selected to become regulars.
April 22, 2008
Last night's edition of House was the show's first broadcast on its new Monday 9pm time slot. Beginning next week, House settles into it's week-opening schedule with the first of its all-new, post-strike episodes.
While it's exciting to welcome fresh House installments after all those reruns, the reunion is short-lived and premature. Once we get going with the brand new material next week, we'll have just three more weeks of previously unaired House. Nonetheless, some House is better than no House or plain old House. So, just to whet your appetites for what's to come, here's a glimpse of next week's offering entitled “No More Mr. Nice Guy.”
April 15, 2008
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We're two weeks away from the start of all-new episodes of House. There's no shortage of Hugh Laurie however, as the man who wears the painkiller-addicted, acerbic, self-indulgent Dr. Gregory House on the hit FOX series is currently gracing the big screen via Street Kings.
Laurie stars alongside The Matrix's Keanu Reeves and Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker, in the movie about a cop under investigation by Internal Affairs. Reeves plays the unconventional rebel with a cause cop, Tom Ludlow, Whitaker his captain, Jack Wander, and Laurie, the IAD officer, Capt. James Biggs.
April 1, 2008
It normally doesn't elicit much confidence when your lead star refuses to pack his things after moving to California from his home in London, especially when he thinks it's nuts to go house-hunting because he thinks the show will only last a month. But that's exactly what Hugh Laurie thought when he first crossed the channel to do House. Well guess what? The rest is, as they say, history. House is coming upon the magical 100th episode and the Laurie household now stands poised to move to the sunny west coast.
Yes, the brilliant British actor who didn't think his House would make it past its first month is now the toast of American television.
March 25, 2008
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What price fame? That's a question often dangled at successful individuals who've either had to make sacrifices or shady choices to get where they are. It's not, however, something the public would necessarily think associated with the British star of FOX's hit medical dramedy, House.
American viewers, as well as many others from various parts of the globe have embraced Hugh Laurie as the irreverent, snide, tactless genius, Dr. Gregory House. Yet, despite the ratings and awards triumphs to back this up, Laurie seems to have also paid a price for doing exceptionally well in the Hollywood scene and the world stage. Ironically, that price seems to have been the loss of place in his native Britain.