House M.d.

The Emmy board also nominated House for Outstanding Drama Series in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, but the present never gained the award. For the season one episode “Three Stories”, David Shore received a writing Emmy in 2005 and the Humanitas Prize in 2006. Director Greg Yaitanes obtained the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, for steering “House’s Head”, the first part of season 4’s two-episode finale. Under orders from Cuddy to recruit a brand new staff, House considers forty medical doctors. Season four’s early episodes focus on his selection process, structured as a reality TV–style elimination contest (Jacobs referred to it as a “version of Survivor”).

Michael Tritter (David Morse), a police detective, appears in a number of season-three episodes. He tries to extract an apology from House, who left Tritter in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum. After …