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And what made that whole storyline unbelievable was the fact that if Vogler won the show would end. Not gonna happen.

I agree Volger had been played out. They need to bring back Cameron though, she makes House feel very uncomfortable.

>What was with that sudden ending, where Vogler was going so strong week after week and during the majority of this episode, then all of a sudden in the last 5 mintes, it all fell apart and he left with his money? Seemed sudden to me. Since Cameron left only because of this, I guess first order of business is to call her up and ask her to come back??

>House is my favorite network show of the week. Following some distance behind is Despirate Housewives.. then American Idol. Those are my only 3, must sees.

Whatever.
Next week is a repeat, so we'll have to wait a bit to find out how Cameron is written back in.

Will House have to *ask* Cameron to come back? If so, that would be interesting.

Paul

(From Marc Berman's Programming Insider column Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at Mediaweek.com)
Fox, as usual, owned Tuesday and will continue to do so until the season finale of American Idol at the end of May. Lead-out House, a bona fide hit, followed with an also dominant 12.4/18 in the overnights, 17.42 million viewers and a 6.6/17 among adults 18-49.

I totally agree. Vogler's attitude was really getting on my nerves. I wanted to get up and kick his a$$. And Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) is a hottie, she's gotta hurry back.

Is it just me, or did the color pallatte (sp?) of this show change? It used to be darker, and have a brownish hue. Now it seems to be brighter and not brown anymore. Anyone else seeing this change?

I agree, since House became more likable and soft, so have the colors.

Hugh Laurie surprised me in doing this show - I always thought of him as an excellent comic in Fry & Laurie and in Jeeves as Berti Wooster but this is a whole new side of him.

For 'House,' 'Idol's quite the remedy
Cranky doctor mystery up 30 percent since March
By Diego Vasquez medialifemagazine.com

When Fox's House launched earlier this year, it had the unenviable task of leading out of the bomb The Rebel Billionaire. Accordingly, the show averaged just a 1.7 rating among viewers 18-49 over its first seven episodes.

Then House acquired American Idol as its lead-in and started to climb. Tuesday night it maintained its peak, averaging a 6.5 overnight 18-49 rating. That's a full 30 percent higher than the 5.0 the show averaged the first time it followed Idol, back on March 15.

Tuesday night's average is also 38.3 percent higher than its previous season-to-date average, a 4.7, which includes a few low-rated reruns.

The show's average last night was slightly lower than the 6.6 rating it averaged last week, but not significantly. Idol has done a good job of helping House find and build an audience, and it appears the show will settle in that mid-6.0 range.

Last week the show was No. 8 among viewers 18-49.

and who could forget him as Frederick Little, Stuart's lovable father.

House... I like it. What happened to the Dr. Chick Babe who quit? Is she off the show for good? That's too bad if she is because I thought she was "hot!"

I doubt she's gone. Her name was still in yje opening credits lastnight.

I coulda forgot, and I did, LOL. I was so into him having an attitude problem I didn't recall him in anything else. I knew he was famiar though.

Do you watch the show? Cameron didn't leave because of Vogler, she quit because she's in love with House. I doubt she'll be back on staff (but she may yet be around).

He still is, some of his one liners in this show are downright hilarious. At the Fox/House website they have a lot of choice ones listed.

Wilson: "She was uncomfortable doing anymore tests. I had to convince her to do just that one."

House: "You get that often? Women who'd rather die than get naked with you?"

I've never seen Hugh Laurie in any role before. If he's a Limey, how has he mastered speaking without any trace of an accent? How did he sound when he was playing an Englishman? Everyone knows that true, unaccented English, i.e. American, is very hard to deliver, for a non-native.
Laurence Harvey was the only true Englishman I've heard who could do it, even putting on an hilarious persona as an illiterate hillbilly, when needed. Bob Hope lost all his accent, but he'd had most of his life as a resident here to change. Gregory Peck never lost all his, despite decades living here.

He's made brief appearances in MI-5 and is in the "new" Filght Of The Phoenix".

He was on Letterman awhile back and remarked that the language/accent thing was something that he had to be constantly on top of, otherwise he would slip back into his native accent. Laurie also remarked on how grueling the pace is for working in American TV, something like 5AM to past 7PM and that in England it was waaaaaay more laid back.

I loved him in Blackadder (I think he was in III and IV) almost 15 years ago. I don't know if BBC America has ever played it. He was very funny in it.

Gregory Peck was born in California.I doubt all these web sites are incorrect: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...hplace&spell=1

Bob Hope moved here with his parents at age 5, so he hardly counts. At that age, he'd have to drop the accent or get beat up daily after school--kids would just find it strange, not charming . Peck was born and raised here in San Diego, educated at UC Berkeley

It's pretty freaky listening to Laurie speak in his native accent after watching him as House. Here's the only clip I could find online of him speaking. It's a RealMedia video clip from some BBC "making of" of some comedy thing, taking about a comic farting scene, so be forewarned. Laurie speaks for a few seconds at the end of it, starting about 20 seconds in.

I don't know that I think it's true that British actors have that hard of a time with American accents. Cary Elwes and Gary Oldham have done perfectly fine work in American accents; in the new Battlestar Galactica, Jamie Bamber does a great job in the role of Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama (of course, his accent is "Caprican", but close enough ).

if it were easy to take off your accent, Uhnuld the governator wouldn't sound the way he does

Hugh Jackman does a convincing American accent. I believe he's Austrailian.

No doubt that these actors have done a fine job with portraying "American" accents, but that doesn't mean they don't have to make a conscious effort not to slip into their native accent. That would be one sign of a good actor.

As I stated earlier, Laurie himself said he is constantly on guard that he does not slip into an English accent. He also indicated that when he reads a script he has to work on making sure the cadence and inflection of a piece of dialogue has an American sounding delivery as the same words can be said with a different cadence/inflection in his native tongue.

barth2k...Personally, I don't think Uhnuld has the brain power to "Americanize" his accent...

Here's some eye candy for you Cameron (J. Morrison) fans. Don't get too excited, the pics are clean....

From Playboy.com

By about the fourth time he appeared on screen, I'm shouting, "Give him his money back and get his fat ass out of there." It's not like the hospital was bankupt without the money.

And as for Laurie, again, it's a crime if they don't give him an Emmy.

She wouldn't have left had Vogler not put him in a bind to fire one of them. She came to him the night after that speech, chief, which virtually insured he had to get rid of one of them. Perhaps Cameron loved him enough to make that easy for him.

I suspect you watch it, but just miss some details.

That's the way I saw it.

Saw "Flight of the Phoenix" last night (the new version). Hugh Laurie plays the "company guy" for the big oil-drilling corporation. He was good there, too, but not as good as in House.

Laurie Happy Playing 'House'
By John Crook
(zap2it.com)--Hugh Laurie is a huge TV star in his native England, thanks to the runaway success of such comedy hits as "Black Adder" and "Jeeves & Wooster," among many others. As the star of "House," the medical drama that has turned into a late-blooming Tuesday hit for FOX, the 45-year-old actor has learned a belated showbiz lesson: Always read the fine print.

"I've never done that before in my life, but this is small print I would have been well-advised to read," Laurie says, alluding to the crushing work hours he is putting in as the star of a U.S. drama series. "It has come as a shock. My wife and I have been talking about where we're going to live, and we quickly came to the realization that even if everybody came to live here, it doesn't solve the problem because they still wouldn't see me for more than an hour or so a week. It's a tough business, and I'm filled with admiration for those who stick with it for a long time. I'm ready to drop, just bone-weary, although it's a great bunch of people and terrific fun to do."

From all indications, Laurie can look forward to a lot more "terrific fun" in the months to come. After a shaky start in November, when generally glowing reviews failed to draw an audience, this quirky series about a brilliant yet cranky and misanthropic physician caught fire, thanks to a powerhouse lead-in from "American Idol." Since then, the show has risen as high as No. 4 in the Nielsen Top 10.

"People don't feel we've been crammed down their throats, so to speak, thrust into their faces," Laurie says of the rapidly growing fan base. "We haven't been marketed to death, so the people who have found the show feel that they have discovered it themselves, so they own it to some degree. That's good for both of us."

Laurie modestly deflects credit for the show's success to series creator-executive producer David Shore, his team of writers, and the first-rate ensemble that includes Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps and Lisa Edelstein. However, it's Laurie's electrifying performance as Dr. Gregory House that drives this unpredictable series.

"Hugh simply came in and read the part far and away better than anyone else did," Shore says. "It's a really tricky, difficult role, and he could come off on-screen as just a hateful jerk. Hugh got all the nastiness -- it was all there -- yet at the same time, you came away liking him. You sympathized with him and wanted to watch him. There was a reality to it, not cartoonish."

Shore firmly felt that changing the character to reflect Laurie's British heritage would prove distracting for viewers, so the actor has had to cope with sustaining a credible American accent on top of the role's other demands.

"I feel like there is a small elf just throwing pebbles at my face, one at a time, every time I come across a word with the letter 'R' in it," Laurie says, sighing. "It's distracting and painful, and now and then, one gets me in the eye."

Still, he knows that's a small price to pay for being in a breakout hit. And in this case, success breeds more success: Multiple Emmy winner Sela Ward will appear in this season's last two episodes as a lost love from House's past and is in talks to make recurring appearances in the role next season.