For seven years now, he's the most miserable man we've ever let into our living rooms — yet the limping grouch known as Dr Gregory House continues to wow us with his unconventional thinking and flawless instincts as he solves medical puzzles to save lives.
Like the painkillers he pops into his mouth like candy to temper his leg pain, however, even a brilliant TV-drama diagnostician has a shelf life - and to the consternation of many, including its actors, House is headed for expiry as this Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning show enters its eighth and final season.
"After much deliberation, the producers of House M.D. have decided that this season of the show, the eighth, should be the last," says star Hugh Laurie. "By April this year they will have completed 177 episodes, which is about 175 more than anyone expected back in 2004." While a junkie-MD who mentally abuses his colleagues, makes life hell for his superiors, defrauds the government, rams his car into his old flame's house and who regularly hangs out in rehab and jail might not win our business in real life as a genius bad boy who gets results, he's risen to emperor of the TV universe.
House recently was designated as the world's most popular current television programme, watched by a whopping 81.8 million people in 66 countries, according to the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records. So why is a world-beater like House getting euthanised? Well, it wasn't a salary dispute and it wasn't ratings. Laurie, who makes US$700,000 (Dh2.6 million) an episode, was reportedly ready to take a pay cut to return for a ninth season.
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