After 8 periods of crankiness and rare medical maladies, Dr. House will set back his stethoscope this May.
Fox declared on Wednesday that the program’s suppliers as well as celebrity Hugh Laurie have chosen to stop the medical drama after 8 many years on the air. In a joint report Laurie series producer David Seashore, and executive producer Katie Jacobs expressed exactly what House has actually implied to television and to its market over the years.
Since it began, House has aspired to offer a coherent and satisfying world in which everlasting human questions of ethics and emotion, logic and truth, could be examined, played out, and occasionally answered. This sounds like fancy talk, but it really isn’t. House has, in its time, intrigued audiences around the world in vast numbers, and has shown that there is a strong appetite for television drama that relies on more than prettiness or gun play…
Lastly, the audience: some have come and some have gone, obviously. This is to be expected in the life of any show. But over the course of the last eight years, the producers of House have felt immensely honored to be the subject of such close attention by an intelligent, discriminating, humane and thoughtful – not to mention numerous – audience. Even the show’s detractors have been flattering in their way. Making the show has felt like a lively and passionate discussion about as many different subjects as could possibly be raised in 177 hours. The devotion and generosity of our viewers has been marvelous to behold.”
