

Īll eight seasons were released on DVD and Blu-ray by Universal in North America, Europe and Australia.

On February 8, 2012, Fox announced that the season would be House 's last. An eighth season was announced on and premiered on October 3, 2011. Fox renewed the show for a seventh season, which premiered on September 20, 2010. In January 2009, House moved from its Tuesday, 8:00 pm ET slot to a new time slot of Monday nights at 8:00 pm ET, immediately before the Fox hit 24. Despite this interruption, House achieved its highest number of viewers for the episode " Frozen", for which there were over 29 million viewers on the night it aired due to its position as the lead-out program for Super Bowl XLII. Eight seasons were aired in the United States, the fourth of which was interrupted by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and included only 16 episodes instead of the regular 22–24. Since its premiere, the show has constantly received both high ratings and critical acclaim. After securing funding for his department in the season eight episode " Risky Business", House brings on former prison doctor Jessica Adams ( Odette Annable) and rehires Chase and Taub.

House is initially assigned a single team member, Dr. After being incarcerated following the events of " Moving On", House is released on probation thanks to Foreman, who has taken Cuddy's place as the Dean of Medicine. In the episode " Last Temptation", Masters takes the final choice to leave House's team. Masters ( Amber Tamblyn), a medical student in the episode " Office Politics". After some unsuccessful tries, Cuddy hires Martha M. House proposes then, giving a chance to the rest of his team, to hire a new member. At the beginning of season seven, Thirteen ostensibly goes away to Rome (it's later revealed that this was actually a lie), leaving a vacancy on House's team. But, Chase's desire to be part of House's team makes Cameron quit (though she later returns for the episode " Lockdown"). When the dictator (" The Tyrant") dies because of Chase's intentional misunderstanding, Cameron and even Chase decide to leave the PPTH. After this, Foreman hires both Cameron and Chase, but, soon, House comes back, spurring the return of Thirteen and Taub, too. When House resigns early in season six, Foreman takes his place, but he soon fires Thirteen, and Taub quits because he was there only to work with House.
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Following Kutner's death in season five, through a series of plot twists, House reacquires Chase, one of the original team members. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley ( Olivia Wilde) as his new team Foreman rejoins soon after. It introduced seven new characters who compete for the coveted positions on House's team, replacing Cameron, Chase and Foreman. The fourth season was the only exception to this pattern. Each season introduces a recurring guest star, who appears in a multi-episode story arc. The show achieved its highest ranking with the episode "Human Error" this episode placed the series in first position for the week it aired. This team leaves the show in the third season finale " Human Error". Allison Cameron ( Jennifer Morrison), Dr. In seasons 1 through 3, House's diagnostic team includes Dr. Eric Foreman in season 8), and his only friend, Dr. Lisa Cuddy ( Lisa Edelstein) in seasons 1 through 7, and Dr. The team leader, House, frequently clashes with his boss (Dr.

In a typical episode, the team is presented with an unusual case the storyline follows the diagnosis of the patient's illness, a process often complicated by the internal competition and personal foibles of the diagnostic team. Gregory House ( Hugh Laurie), an irascible, maverick medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey. House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama series which premiered on Fox on November 16, 2004.
