The future of Fox’s long-running House is an open question: That network has yet to renew the show beyond the current eighth season. Star Hugh Laurie’s high paycheck and the show’s sharply declining ratings are issues. NBC Universal produces the show for Fox, but Greenblatt said he’s unlikely to take the show for his own network if Fox passes: „It’s really hard to migrate a show to a new network with that cost structure and get it to work.“
source: usatoday.com
HUGH Laurie’s dulcet tones don’t come as naturally as one might think, as he admits he scoured YouTube for videos on how to sing before recording his debut album.
The 52-year-old actor turned blues crooner released Let Them Talk last year. But he says he was so nervous before unleashing his vocals that he looked to the internet for singing tips.
“I’d never sung before and I actually reached a point where I went to YouTube and typed in ‘How to sing’ – I was that desperate. I swear I did,” he reveals. “What came up was absolutely infuriating things about posture. They don’t tell you how to sing.
“Have you noticed that any human activity seems to have this requirement that you stand with your feet about a shoulder-width apart? It doesn’t matter if you’re making an omelette or digging a ditch. I know how to keep my feet about a shoulder width apart. But I need to know how to generate notes.”
source: express.co.uk
Hugh Laurie knows gigantic, successful network shows like „House“ don’t happen all the time — which is why he isn’t going to try again after the Fox drama concludes its run (whenever that is).
Laurie tells U.K. paper The Daily record that Dr. Gregory House is likely the last role he’ll inhabit on the small screen. “I think I have been rather spoiled here,“ he says. „I can’t imagine there will be another one quite like this. … I think I am extremely lucky to have had the one shot that I have had at it and I wouldn’t go looking for lightning to strike twice.“But that doesn’t mean Laurie’s getting out of showbiz altogether — he says he’d like to try his hand at other jobs in the field. “I think I will probably be as interested by either writing or producing or directing, or some other aspect,“ he says. „I find the whole field of it fascinating.“Laurie’s grateful for the show that’s given him such Stateside success. “We have done 170-odd shows, that’s about 56 feature films worth,“ he says. „That’s a huge amount of experience and that sort of experience gives you a confidence, in a way. I think that I have a confidence that I might not have had.“„House“ is rumored to be in its last season, but nothing official has been announced yet.source: zap2it.com