Take that, Grey's Anatomy! You faker!

Take that, Grey's Anatomy! You faker!

I like both series, although I do like Grey's better, as the characters and their various dramas is a lot better.

Did you see the last episode?

I haven't watched either for a while. House was much better than Grey's because Hugh Laurie is the best actor in the bunch, and because the personal aspects that were revealed about House were well-written and had depth. The rest of the show was occasionally funny, but not that remarkable. Grey's lost me when Meredith came back from the dead. I detest when people come back from the dead.

And the medicine is more accurate in H, and the supporting characters are more realistic in H, and the love triangles are more natural and less forced in H, and...

I disliked the first 3 interns, especially the woman. I loved the winnowing down of all the candidates in the 3rd(?) season. That was fun and interesting.

I love Cameron. She's on my "to do" list. The other two I didn't much care for until they moved to other roles... now Chase is a tolerable character, and Foreman is slowly being written into as complex a character as House.

Not sure they were interns, exactly.

Oh, they weren't. They were probably fellows. I still dislike her namby-pamby character.

I dug the father-figure angst. I'm hoping that now the cast has been whittled down somewhat, they start pushing that shit again. She's too good for the wimpy Aussie.

I disliked both.

Anyone catch the last episode of House?

Not yet. I'm five episodes behind.

There is some good stuff coming up.

Finished the season... interesting.

I liked it when House relised that he had made the entire night up.

The look on his face was priceless.

I'm curious to know if anybody's going to be leaving the cast. Chase and Cameron seem obvious possibilities, but even with them, there are only 8 regulars, which doesn't seem that hard to balance.

Still, there used to only be 6, so who knows?

I don't see why someone would leave, although I could see "13" leaving.

Actors tend to be vain about screen time, and Cameron and Chase have been getting the short end of the stick lately. I hope they stay, but it won't surprise me if they take off.

13 might be the next to die, eh?

Well 13 is the one with the desease, but I wouldn't mind the old team getting back together.

I haven't watched either for a while. House was much better than Grey's because Hugh Laurie is the best actor in the bunch, and because the personal aspects that were revealed about House were well-written and had depth. The rest of the show was occasionally funny, but not that remarkable. Grey's lost me when Meredith came back from the dead. I detest when people come back from the dead.

I can't watch House, Hugh Laurie's character is so toxic and abusive it galls me that they show him keeping his job let alone any woman (with any self respect or esteem) loving him. The medical situations are so ridiculous, he'd be getting sued on a daily basis if he were a real person. I only feel that way because they try and present it as being hard hitting realism. If they took a lighter approach I would be less critical. (of the medical stuff)

Grey's Anatomy makes me cry in every show, the emotional angst is palpable for me. There are messed up characters but at least they show them working on their issues and overcoming them, that at least is healthier. Grey's has made several poor story line choices as do most long running shows at some point. But the characters are pretty solid and their personal histories emotionally complex and involving. That story line about Meridith was an attempt to explore her lack of desire to fight for her life due to the extreme lack of love she received growing up but the execution was badly delivered. Derek gets Meridith in a way that makes me crazy to find that in real life but it's so incredibly rare even in tv characters that I find myself really drawn to those two.

Except that the medical situations are all actual documented cases, no? I can remember reading about several of the real situations before seeing them a year or two later on the show.

And, believe it or not, I can speak to being "indispensable" and being a dick about it.

You bag House for not being realistic, but let GA off the hook? C'mon, now.

'House' is world's most popular TV show

PARIS (AFP) - US drama "House", starring Britain's Hugh Laurie as unconventional medical genius Doctor Gregory House, outgunned rivals in 2008 to become the world's most watched fiction show on television.
ADVERTISEMENT

According to ratings agency Eurodata TV Worldwide, House and his team of canny diagnosticians last year gathered more than 81.8 million viewers.

That was far more than the 2007 and 2006 winners in the same TV drama category, "CSI: Las Vegas", about a team of forensic experts, and its spin-off "CSI: Miami".

The agency bases its figures on data collected in 66 countries from Austria to Georgia to Norway to the United States that represent a potential audience of 1.6 billion couch potatoes.

In the TV comedy category, the US female-star cast of "Desperate Housewives" for the second year running beat "Monk" (US) and "Ugly Betty" (US), attracting 65.3 million viewers worldwide in 2008.

"The Bold and the Beautiful", also a US show, with 24.5 million viewers was the most popular soap for the second consecutive year, thrashing Mexican telenovela "Marina" and US competitor "The Young And The Restless."

For Wolfe...


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090612/ente...n_media_ratings

interestingly I don't watch any of the shows mentioned as most popular.

And the House premiere was brilliant!

by Michael Ausiello
Categories: House, News

Princeton-Plainsboro is undergoing another major shake-up: Sources confirm to me exclusively that Jennifer Morrison is leaving House.

Neither Fox nor Morrison’s reps would comment, but I’m told the actress did not quit; her exit was a creative decision on the part of producers. Morrison — the first of the show’s original cast members to depart — shot her last scene earlier this week and her final episode will air in November.

Suspicions about Morrison’s House future were raised last week when she was MIA at the show’s premiere screening in Hollywood.

Here’s what else I’m hearing about this surprising and, I’ll say it, disappointing, turn of events.

* Unlike Kal Penn’s dearly-departed Kutner, Cameron will not be killed off.

* Morrison’s on-screen husband, Jesse Spencer (Chase), is not leaving the show. (Do the math and you can probably figure out how she’ll be written out.)

* Producers are leaving the door open for Morrison to make a guest appearance later in the season.

The last point will prove little comfort to Cameron fans, especially since this was the season Morrison’s nearly three-year stint on the backburner was supposed to end. In fact, just last month series creator David Shore told me (video below), “Chase and Cameron fans will be happy with the way we’re going to reintegrate them into the team — at least on a temporary basis.” (That temporary qualifier should’ve been a clue.) Even Morrison recently admitted it was “great” being front-and-center again. “I have been working a lot,” she told us, “and there are things that happen to House very early in the season that have a domino effect on all of the other characters.”