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After Eight Seasons, ‘House’ Slated to End
NYT
By Bill Carter
February 8, 2012
One of the most popular and highly regarded television dramas of the last decade, the medical series “House,” will come to an end this season, the show’s producers and the Fox network announced Wednesday.
The decision was cast as the choice of the producers. In a statement, they said: “The producers have always imagined House as an enigmatic creature; he should never be the last one to leave the party. How much better to disappear before the music stops, while there is still some promise and mystique in the air.”
But over the last several months, there had been intense negotiations over a potential new deal that would extend the series for one more season, which would have been the show’s ninth. But television shows that run past their first seven years always encounter expensive new financial deals, and it had been widely reported that Fox was trying to bring the show back at a sharply reduced cost.
Any potential new deal was complicated by the fact that “House” was not owned by Fox, but by NBCUniversal. That meant that the shows ancillary profits — which have been considerable because “House” is among the most popular television shows in the world – went completely to the studio, not to its network.
The decision was cast as the choice of the producers. In a statement, they said: “The producers have always imagined House as an enigmatic creature; he should never be the last one to leave the party. How much better to disappear before the music stops, while there is still some promise and mystique in the air.”
But over the last several months, there had been intense negotiations over a potential new deal that would extend the series for one more season, which would have been the show’s ninth. But television shows that run past their first seven years always encounter expensive new financial deals, and it had been widely reported that Fox was trying to bring the show back at a sharply reduced cost.
Any potential new deal was complicated by the fact that “House” was not owned by Fox, but by NBCUniversal. That meant that the shows ancillary profits — which have been considerable because “House” is among the most popular television shows in the world – went completely to the studio, not to its network.
I'm not big on medical shows. I tried House but never really loved it like many people do.
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