House M.D. premiered on Fox in 2004, with its first episode airing on November 16 of that year.
The medical drama was created by David Shore and produced by Shore, Katie Jacobs, and film director Bryan Singer, who also directed the pilot. Hugh Laurie played the central character, the diagnostician Gregory House.
House M.D. began as a mid-2000s network drama and quickly became one of Fox’s best-known scripted series. Its premise focused on a small diagnostic team solving difficult medical cases at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
The show’s premiere year is sometimes confused with the year its development began. Fox ordered the pilot and launched the series in 2004; the program then continued for eight seasons before ending in 2012.