House M.D. premiered in the United States in 2004.
The series debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. It was created by David Shore and developed with executive producer Bryan Singer, who directed the pilot episode. The medical drama centered on Gregory House and his diagnostic team at a fictional New Jersey teaching hospital.
The show arrived during a period when medical dramas were already popular, but its format emphasized mysterious cases, deductive reasoning, and an unconventional central doctor. Episodes often began with a patient experiencing a puzzling symptom before the diagnostic team investigated competing explanations.
Viewers sometimes confuse the U.S. premiere year with the year the series ended, 2012, or with the publication dates of later companion books. The program ran for eight seasons and became one of Fox’s internationally successful scripted series.