because the show is set in america and if your main character is british you have to rewrite the plot to accomodate that. so rather than mess with that detail, House speaks American accented English.

Let's take House for example. What would you have to rewrite in that if House was British?

Let's take House for example. What would you have to rewrite in that if House was British?

why he's in america. why a british doctor wouldn't practice in england. where's his british friends and family. do we bring up britain at all, being american writers with purely american viewers.

i'm not saying its a difficult rewrite but i mean that's your reason right there. if he can pass as american why not?

well this might also explain why they didn't bother to change it to being british: not sure how accuracte this is as its just from wikipedia but it seems pretty plausable

Laurie was in Namibia filming Flight of the Phoenix and recorded the audition tape for the show in the bathroom of the hotel, the only place he could get enough light.[11] His US accent was so convincing that executive producer Bryan Singer, who was unaware at the time that Laurie is English, pointed to him as an example of just the kind of compelling American actor he had been looking for

oh wow this is crazy: in one of th emost recent eps, lightman is watching some woman who is his mom and he fails to see a microexpression. that entire thing, other than it being his mom, was based on ekman's real experience! like the interview and the microexpression, all that shit happened. they really based a lot of this on his stuff.

edit: ekman's research is really fascinating and i wish one of you dorks was more interested in this stuff than HEROES: WHO WILL BLOW UP THE SUN.

seriously ekman teaches people to do this in 35 MINUTES, you can be a superguy in 35 minutes. his mentor, this guy named sylvan, is basically a legend who used to go on that gameshow called to tell the truth and he would figure it out in seconds before they said anything. all those cheesy cuts in the show, they actually can do it in their heads. like he called bill clinton's infidelity before the guy was president. they didn't listen though because it would look bad if someone found out a lying expert was talking to a candidate.

"FACS can be learned in about 100 hours, taking five weeks if 3-4 hours is spent per day."

i don't spend 3-4 hours a day studying what i'm meant to be. i'll look into it when i next have a break or a lot of free time!

thats facs, which is intense as fuck and takes forever and you will never use it probabaly. i mean just recognizing microexpressions and lies for your day to day life which is what he teaches cops.

so you rape you daughter???

I didn't say that..!

yes.. you did *smug* I noticed your dick twitch when I said the word "daughter"

why he's in america. why a british doctor wouldn't practice in england. where's his british friends and family. do we bring up britain at all, being american writers with purely american viewers.

i'm not saying its a difficult rewrite but i mean that's your reason right there. if he can pass as american why not?

But none of that's essential to the story. British guys live in America sometimes.

But none of that's essential to the story. British guys live in America sometimes.

The character was created before they cast him.  They wanted an American guy, and Hugh Laurie auditioned as an American guy. 

Really, it's not that big of a deal.

But none of that's essential to the story. British guys live in America sometimes.

dealing with pain has a lot of cultural variation. house's character doesn't fit in with english cultural norms at all! there's still a strong class structure

story differences include his father's rank in the american military and him growing up on military bases and it would be fairly weird for him to have been in america for so long without losing his accent

you would have to rewrite most of his character. the stories could be similar, just his reactions and the way he deals with it would be a lot different. oops that's the show.

yeah this is really not an example of AMERICANS CANT APPRECIATE BRITISH ACCENTS THE PIGS. if anything we overcast intellectuals with british accents! THIS show is a good example of this (ekman isn't british!)

Even better than just saying that, how about just saying the character is American and Hugh Laurie is ACTING PROPERLY?  Hugh Laurie is playing an American because he can do a good job of it and he was a good actor for the role, why should a character be rewritten for a specific actor if the actor can act the character?  That would be a pretty dumb thing to do I think!

Grindie is just a hugely stupid asshole, there's no point in responding to him.

yeah this is really not an example of AMERICANS CANT APPRECIATE BRITISH ACCENTS THE PIGS. if anything we overcast intellectuals with british accents! THIS show is a good example of this (ekman isn't british!)

Yeah there are loads of scientists, doctors, etc on american tv who have english accents. I don't think there was ever really an argument outside of this topic that americans can't appreciate english accents or whatever, cos they are all over the place.

The actual argument is that they get stereotyped as being emblematic of a refined culture full of posh folk when England and the whole of Britain mostly just read gossip magazines and fart out their £1 bottle of cider all day.

*fart*

I know that Hugh Laurie is playing an American. I'm fine with that. His accent is perfect. I'm not talking about that. It's the reasoning I'm getting from some people in here that makes no sense. Like every single word of Climbtree's last reply. What a load of bullshit.

But aye, whatever.

Saw the first episode of Lie to Me. Rather enjoyed it. Kicked the shit outta The Mentalist (I just hate that bitch from Prison Break!).

I know that Hugh Laurie is playing an American. I'm fine with that. His accent is perfect. I'm not talking about that. It's the reasoning I'm getting from some people in here that makes no sense. Like every single word of Climbtree's last reply. What a load of bullshit.

But you started this discussion before ANYONE replied, so how can you go back and say you think it should have been that way because of what climbtree said?

But you started this discussion before ANYONE replied, so how can you go back and say you think it should have been that way because of what climbtree said?

Because I'm a filthy liar.

And because I've had this discussion before and it always pans out the same way.

I know that Hugh Laurie is playing an American. I'm fine with that. His accent is perfect. I'm not talking about that. It's the reasoning I'm getting from some people in here that makes no sense. Like every single word of Climbtree's last reply. What a load of bullshit.

But aye, whatever.

Saw the first episode of Lie to Me. Rather enjoyed it. Kicked the shit outta The Mentalist (I just hate that bitch from Prison Break!).

the reasoning for why house needs to have an american accent is that he needs to be an american. you would have to rewrite the show completely to make him british because a lot of stuff he does wouldn't make sense.

you couldn't have a british doctor that wore burburry caps and lacoste that was still likeable. or plausible. but this is a large part of house's character! the monster truck rallys, listening to loud music, motorcycles, flaming canes, band t-shirts etc.

rewriting his backstory would be easy but a lot of his characteristics wouldn't make sense. chase is australian so it's not even a matter of EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE AMERICAN but just based on statistics there's a lot of things that wouldn't work if house was british.

like if house was from dubai or was an indian doctor, you really couldn't keep his personality the same imo and still have it believable.

furthermore the character you're talking about in the show is based on an american guy! are you just talking about the quality of the accent or what?

Naw. What I'm saying is that you don't have to be American to like monster trucks, loud music, motorcycles, bands and be a complete asshole who knows everything. What I'm saying is that a British guy could act the same way as House does and like the things House likes. I'm not saying House has to be British, I'm saying they wouldn't have to alter the show in any way if he was.

you don't have to be a man either. house doesn't have to be a woman, they wouldn't have to alter the show in any way if he was.

climbtree women can't like monster trucks what are you talking about

or vidya games...