Written by David Morgan

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Television director Deran Sarafian has become co-executive producer and in-house director of FOX's popular medical drama House, M.D..  Sarafian has directed several episodes of the show already, but this new contract states that he will direct every third episode. The director's past works include episodes of Lost, K-Ville, all three CSIs, Without a Trace, among other shows, and a few minor feature films.

 

According to Variety, House is the second most popular scripted series (after Grey's Anatomy), but personally I'm still looking for an episode that isn't structured as follows: Patient has impossible symptoms, is dying; House orders the other doctors to do some tests, insults them; tests come up with something unusual; House yells at the patient until they let him do something dangerous to them; House discovers that sometimes the symptoms lie. I don't suppose anyone can expect changes to this formula coming from one of House's most frequent directors. Hugh Laurie still does the best American accent by any Brit in recent memory (though Peter Sellers comes to mind for his President Merkin Muffley role in Dr. Strangelove).