'House' Final Season: Hugh Laurie Responds To Rumors He's To Blame For Cancellation

TV Guide:

A New York newspaper alleged this week that Hugh Laurie had opted to end the run of Fox's "House" because he was tired of the show. The story, though, was based on old quotes from Laurie, given long before Fox announced the end of the show. In this exclusive statement, Laurie responds to the story ...

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Comments

[Kitty Territz]

03:28 PM on 05/12/2012

House will committ sucide when Wilson dies of cancer, moral of the story being throughout the 8 yrs, House is a drug addict, goes to jail, goes to rehab, logical end he dies of an OD
He loses his bestest buddy, Wilson. Has no other reason to live. Bored with life and sick of being in chronic pain. Foreman now is the new House and the wheels spin on while Foreman grieves and so do the other players. Cuddy may make a cameo in some way. Game over. Bye-bye now.

[Kitty Territz]

03:19 PM on 05/12/2012

house and wilson will go out together in a novel way, wilson with his cancer, and house committing sucidie with out his bestest buddy, the only one who knows him and gets him. wilson dies, then house takes an OD, obvious ending to a common theme running for 8 yrs plus, first drug addict gets in trouble with copper, then goes to rehab, lastly the morla message will be you die from taking drugs in an OD fashion. that is how its gonna be. foreman stays on as house -ish that he didnt wanna be but now is, and program goes on at pp, like always but foreman is chief now and others fade into grief losing the two biggies.

[DawnJanel]

09:43 AM on 04/23/2012

My daughter age 13 pointed out that he was in Stuart Little

[Tubby T]

02:43 PM on 03/08/2012

Aww hat eot see it end!

[moionfire]

02:40 AM on 02/17/2012

The show lasted too long. Every episode was the same. I stopped watching after the 2nd season.

[jokamachi]

10:10 PM on 02/16/2012

At press time Laurie was reportedly preparing for his next big role following the series finale of House:

Obscurity.

[pleblian]

08:55 PM on 02/16/2012

Best show on tv

[olddognewtrick]

01:49 PM on 02/16/2012

BERTIEEEEE....

[-swift]

08:02 AM on 02/16/2012

That's right, you take your fake American asz back to that little island! Who needs you anyways? Not me. Go on. Go already. Maybe you could do some smart, original, BBC comedy show. But I won't watch it. I won't use the torenntz to see that show when it comes out. No way.

[pleblian]

08:54 PM on 02/16/2012

Jebus!

Calm down

[grailknight]

11:00 PM on 02/15/2012

House jumped the shark when it became Huddy a couple of years ago. The decision to quit the show by both Fox and Laurie before ratings sank it was a cunning plan.

[George Picard]

09:35 PM on 02/15/2012

I liked him better as George in the Blackadder.

[redsongia]

08:27 PM on 02/15/2012

I'm glad he likes the show.  That makes one of us.

[Liderc]

03:36 PM on 03/26/2012

Technically that makes like 9.1million.

[mymind]

07:42 PM on 02/15/2012

Love the show, big fan, I knew it would be the last season when the Cuddy character didn't resign. The formula for the show was, House, Wilson and Cuddy. Once one of those characters was out, the whole thing collapsed. It's a formula that has been proven to work in any sitcom/major motion picture.

[msstrick40]

05:34 PM on 02/15/2012

Most knew the deal Hugh...and realized that the show was losing some of its luster...and you all wanted to go out on a reasonably "high note"

Andit makes sense to me.........

[MikeDu]

05:19 PM on 02/15/2012

Am I correct in saying this is the best Job Laurie ever had? I'm not familiar with his local work in Britain. For all I know after the Bertie Wooster series he only had one minor job every other year, usually playing a befuddled character. Perhap he had a couple 'meaty' roles in local British TV before going to House but I never saw any of it.

[Hugo Rabson]

11:23 AM on 02/16/2012

It depends on what you mean by 'meaty'. Without Googling him, I can recall his performances in Jeeves & Wooster, Black Adder II/III/IV, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and a few other odds and ends. He's a Cambridge graduate, a Footlights alum, and quite a good singer and piano player. He's a household name in Britain and is probably quite content with that. The best job Hugh Laurie ever had was whatever he says it was, and that might not be the one with the funny accent and the funny walk.