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I still can't get used to watching Hugh Laurie with an American accent. I think that's why the show's never taken off over here. Anyway, here's Hugh in one of his finest moments...
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spaggy boy wrote:
I still can't get used to watching Hugh Laurie with an American accent. I think that's why the show's never taken off over here. Anyway, here's Hugh in one of his finest moments...
euh, I think the never taken off has far more to do with Five idiotic scheduling (and the fact it was on Five to start with. Plus now it's only on Sky, which most people don't have)
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Brand new commercial for the season premiere tonight during the All Star game!!!! Hugh's got a total buzz cut in the loony bin, shortest it's ever been in the show.
It's season six and I'm just getting into this show. I don't watch a ton of TV but this is my favorite character since Al Swearengen. I need to buy DVD's.
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House gets guerrilla ad treatment
By James Hibberd, Reuters August 26, 2009 10:01 AM
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Snakes on a cane." Sound familiar?
Perhaps, during commercial breaks on Fox, you've seen the flashes of a caduceus that uses a cane instead of a staff. You might have seen the symbol drawn with chalk on New York streets. Or even clicked through to the phrase's cryptic website.
Fox is set to announce what many who have spied the symbol already suspect: It has been a summerlong guerrilla marketing promotion for Season 6 of House in the fall.
Yet few would guess that the idea came from House star Hugh Laurie.
In the spring, the actor thought of the "snakes on a cane" phrase, sketched the symbol and mentioned it to Fox's marketing department, which ran with the idea as an innovative teaser campaign.
"Teaser campaigns are usually reserved for Year 1 shows," Joe Earley, Fox's executive vice president of marketing and communications, said. "Rarely would you do something like this for a show that's already established."
House is set to return September 21 and likely will continue its reign as the network's highest-rated drama. Usually networks reserve their most creative marketing efforts for new shows, but Fox elected to buck tradition to promote its veteran hit. But with competitors launching three new medical dramas this season, House could benefit from some extra attention.
The first part of the campaign spread the symbol without any context. The second phase added a clock counting down to the House premiere date on the campaign's website and five-second 'subliminal" ads during Fox programming, which remained cryptic and avoided showing a direct connection to House. One ad was a full-page placement in a major publication without a title or tune-in date.
Online viewers' myriad guesses about the symbol have ranged from something related to the president's health care plan to a campaign for a new movie.
"We were really able to hit a wide range of people," Earley said. "House doesn't need a teaser campaign, but given how brilliant it is, it's intrigued people in a new way."
The crucial part is ensuring that viewers make the connection between the teaser "snakes on a cane" imagery and House. So Fox is set to embark on the next phase of its campaign: In addition to ads on the air and off, the network will have a vintage ambulance driving around Los Angeles bearing the symbol and tune-in information for the show.
House Will Face Off With Darth Vader Who better to thwart House’s expressions of ego and condescension than Darth Vader himself?
No, Darth Vader won’t be on House, but word has it that the actor who portrayed him will be. James Earl Jones will be a guest star this season, and with the description of his character and that amazing resonant voice, this should be a fantastic episode!!
Fox’s “House” had lined up James Earl Jones as a guest star. He plays an African dictator who becomes a patient at Princeton-Plainsboro. The installment will air in the fall.
And another actor from The Shield is comin to see House!!! German actress Franka Potente will be a guest star on an upcoming episode of House. She stated recently in an interview for a German magazine in which she said that she has “just finished shooting two episodes of her favorite TV-show, House, which was great fun.”
Turns out she’ll be in the 2-hour season 6 premiere episode that will take place in the mental hospital!!!!
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