Also, showrunner and exec producer David Shore isn't contractually on board for an eighth season and his deal would have be ironed out as well, assuming he wanted to continue.
а если так, то он может говорить почти что угодно, он пока в таком же положении как и все, без контракта.

http://blogcritics.org/video....e-talks

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http://www.tvline.com/2011/04/house-nbc-contract-renewal-fox/

ну и Оззи добавил

Ramon: Faith is not a disease.
House: No, of course not. On the other hand, it is communicable, and it kills a lot of people.

Is House grabbing his cane and jumping to NBC? Don't hire the moving vans just yet.

Fox's deal with Universal Media Studios, which produces the Hugh Laurie drama, is expiring, and as Variety reported Friday, there's no resolution in sight. That's led some to wonder whether Universal might ultimately move the show, entering its eighth season this fall, to sister network NBC.

Even though new NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt is high on his new development, the network could use an established hit (even in its ratings-eroded state) like House. But insiders tell TV Guide Magazine that under the current deal between Fox and Universal, that's not an immediate possibility.

According to those sources, a clause in the current House pact prevents Universal from shopping the show to NBC or any NBCUniversal network (such as USA). If talks fall apart and a window opens for Universal to shop the show elsewhere, it would have to be at a non-NBCUniversal affiliated network like ABC, CBS or TNT. (For now, Fox and Universal's exclusive negotiating window has been extended through at least April 15.)

Both Fox and Universal remain far apart on how much the network will pay in license fees. Variety notes that Universal is looking to maintain their current deal, in which Fox pays for the cost of production on House plus a premium. It's believed that Universal is also looking for a two-year deal, while Fox is looking to bring down its fees (given House's lower ratings this season) and strike just a one-year deal.

Further complicating matters: Deals for showrunner David Shore and several castmembers must be renegotiated (although Laurie and Olivia Wilde's options will be exercised). Cast member Robert Sean Leonard, in particular, is hinting that he's not sure whether he'll return.

Is Robert Sean Leonard leaving House?

The network and studio declined comment. But insiders close to the talks warn not to read too much into the clause that would prevent a move to NBC, saying it could be open to interpretation. They also remain confident that deals will be done for House in the coming weeks — although the House pact could indeed come down to the wire, perhaps just days before Fox announces its fall schedule in May.

"We'll get this thing done," says one source close to the negotiation. "This isn't the NFL. I'm not panicked at all."

Anything's possible — many series have jumped networks over the years, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer's infamous switch from The WB to UPN. But when asked on a conference call Friday whether he was concerned that a deal wouldn't be struck, Shore told reporters that he "would be absolutely astounded if there wasn't, we are working on the assumption that there will be. As you all know, there is no deal in place, but negotiations are ongoing and Fox wants to have a season eight, and NBCUniversal wants them to have a season eight," Shore added. "I fully expect there to be a season eight and we are proceeding on that basis."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/House-NBC-Fox-1031648.aspx

In a front-page article, L'Osservatore Romano said the popular American series House and the movies raised "many doubts" about fertility treatments in which babies are conceived through donor eggs and sperm.

Popular culture normally "extolled" the benefits of fertility treatment but the TV programme and films more accurately reflected moral "unease" surrounding the issue, the newspaper said in an article headlined "When cinema tells the truth".

Children conceived by artificial means faced a lifelong "emptiness" because they were born from sperm belonging to men who wanted nothing to do with them, and such choices often led to "fear and loneliness", wrote Carlo Bellieni, a bioethicist.

In The Switch, which was released last year, Jennifer Aniston plays a 40-year-old woman who seeks fertility treatment to become pregnant.

Seven years later, she finds that her best male friend secretly replaced the sperm of her donor with that of his own.
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"The film shows this man's regret for what he has done, not being able to tell the child that he is his father, while the child sadly collects photos of strangers to imagine a parent he doesn't have," the opinion piece, published at the weekend, explained.

The Back-Up Plan is a romantic comedy about a woman, played by Jennifer Lopez, who resorts to artificial insemination in order to become pregnant, only to meet the man of her dreams the same day.

The Vatican's mouthpiece also approvingly cited an episode of House, the medical drama starring the British actor Hugh Laurie.

In the episode, Who's Your Daddy?, from the series' second season, his character Dr Gregory House discourages a female colleague from resorting to artificial insemination, telling her that her two preferred donors are "losers".

He advises her instead to choose someone she knows and trusts as the father of her child.

Other episodes had also expressed "perplexity" over in-vitro fertilisation, the paper claimed.

Together the films and episode encapsulate "small signs of uneasiness towards a practice that politicians would like to see introduced in many countries," L'Osservatore Romano said.

The daily broadsheet was once viewed as a stuffy, dull paper of record for the Holy See.

But after a new editor was appointed three years ago it has made numerous forays into popular culture, offering a Catholic point of view on everything from Avatar and Homer Simpson to The Beatles and Harry Potter.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news....se.html

Даже Ватикан, и тот высказался насчет Хауса - причем похвалил за его неодобрение искусственного оплодотворения. Наш пострел...