Season 1/Сезон 1 ~

by **The_Colorful_Girl** 2/8/2011, 7:58 am

Сезон 1

The first season of House premiered November 16, 2004,and ended May 25, 2005.The season followed House and his team as they solve a medical case each episode, the season's sub-plot revolved around billionaire Edward Vogler making a $100 million donation to the hospital.Through this donation, Vogler became the new chairman of the board of PPTH, however, seeing House and his team as a waste of time and resources, he decreases their payment, eventually forcing House to fire one of his team members.Chi McBride joined the cast as Vogler in five episodes of the show.His character was brought in after Universal Studios president Jeff Zucker threatened that the season would be cut short by six episodes if a boss-character would not be added.While there were possibilities of the character returning, he was generally disliked by viewers and critics and therefore not brought back into the show.Sela Ward, who would return as the main recurring character of season two, appeared in the final two episodes as Stacy Warner, House's former girlfriend.[26] Season one gained high nielsen ratings, averaging 13.3 million viewers an episode.It was 24th most-watched television show of the 2004–2005 television season.