Meanwhile, Cameron and Chase come back to work at the hospital, while Foreman starts work in a job similar to House's at another hospital. House grudgingly accepts and gets forty applicants together and has a reality show style contest to see which lucky three applicants will stay on to get the vacant fellowship openings. As a result, Season 4 is the shortest season, with only 16 episodes being produced in all.Īfter losing his original diagnostic team that he loved so much, House decides that he doesn't need fellows as he feels that he can handle a case all on his own but after taking a long time to solve a case, Cuddy insists that he start looking for possible doctors to join his new team.
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However, the biggest impact on Season 4 was the Writer’s Strike, which shut down production on the series for about three months. However, even the cast members were kept in the dark until the last moment about which ones would be kept on.
However, of the forty “applicants” for the open fellowship positions, fewer than half had speaking roles in The Right Stuff and in reality only six actors had a real shot at staying on.
In fact, the process to do this was almost as chaotic as the process House set up himself. The plan was to hire three new cast members to fill the team. Cameron moved to the emergency room and started a relationship with Chase, who moved to the surgical department in an attempt to become board certified. Foreman, who initially tried to move on, instead wound up as a supervising fellow over the new hires. However, none of the cast members left at this point, they just filled different roles. In the Season 1 episode DNR, Foreman admits that he is on a three year contract, which would have ended at about the end of Season 3. Apparently, the producers felt the show needed a cast shake up and, to be fair, the character House noted in Alone that it was strange for him to have had exactly the same staff for three straight years. In the finale of the previous series, House’s entire team of fellows was fired or quit, leaving him without a staff. Season 4 was a sharp departure from Season 3. Season Four was released on DVD in region 2 on the 27th October 2008.Īccording to Variety magazine, FOX Broadcasting made an early decision in February 2007 to renew House for a fourth season. Interrupted by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the number of episodes was reduced to 16 instead of the planned 24. Executive producer Katie Jacobs explained that it was hard for the writers to finish the story arcs started during the season with eight episodes fewer. Season four also introduced seven actors to the cast in addition to Jacobson, Penn and Wilde, who became regulars, Andy Comeau portrayed Travis Brennan, an epidemiologist Edi Gathegi played Jeffrey Cole, a geneticist Carmen Argenziano appeared as Henry Dobson, a former medical school admissions officer and Anne Dudek portrayed Amber "Cut-throat Bitch" Volakis, an interventional radiologist. Each of the four departed the show after elimination, except for Volakis, who remained recurring until the finale, having started a relationship with Wilson.įor this season, Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer had a reduced number of appearances, though they continued to be main characters. Meanwhile, Amber begins a relationship with Wilson. Foreman rejoins the team after his dismissal from another hospital.
Remy "Thirteen" Hadley ( Olivia Wilde) as his new team. Dr. Having previously fired Chase, and with Foreman and Cameron quitting, House starts a competition between forty applicants for the vacant positions. He eventually narrows them down to seven, firing one each episode. In the episode "Games", he fires Amber "Cutthroat Bitch" Volakis ( Anne Dudek), hiring Dr. This season is the shortest one in the whole series due to the Writer Guild of America's strike which stopped production of the series and instead of 24 episodes, 16 were finally produced.Īmong other important storylines, Wilson starts dating Amber, an applicant for House's team who didn't make it to the final three positions, Thirteen's apparent disease, Foreman's struggles not to be seen as 'another House' due to similarities in their behaviour/methods and Taub's backstory related to cheating on his wife. The fourth season of House premiered on Septemand ended on May 19, 2008.
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