House M.d.
In the United Kingdom, the primary four seasons have been broadcast on Five. The unique, English-language model of the present aired in Australia on Network Ten, in New Zealand on TV3, and in Ireland on 3e, TV3’s cable channel. Laurie received the Screen Actors Guild’s award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in both 2007 and 2009. Writer Lawrence Kaplow received a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for the season two episode “Autopsy”.
Both characters play instruments (House performs the piano, the guitar, and the harmonica; Holmes, the violin) and take medicine (House depends on Vicodin; Holmes makes use of cocaine recreationally). House’s relationship with Dr. James Wilson echoes that between Holmes and his confidant, Dr. John Watson. Shore said that House’s name itself is meant as “a delicate homage” to Holmes. House’s handle is 221B Baker Street, a direct reference …