House M.D. originally premiered in the United States on the Fox network. The first episode aired on November 16, 2004, beginning the series’ eight-season television run.
Fox positioned the program as a medical drama centered on a diagnostician rather than a conventional emergency-room or surgical team. Its unusual mixture of hospital cases, mystery-solving, and dark humor helped it become one of the network’s major scripted successes.
The show was produced in the United States, although many exterior establishing shots and some production work were associated with locations in and around Los Angeles. The fictional hospital, Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, was located in New Jersey within the story.
Viewers sometimes confuse Fox with a streaming service or with the network that later carried international broadcasts. Fox was the original U.S. broadcast network; different countries distributed the series through their own local broadcasters.