My daughter got me started watching "House"; I love it, too! Anyone else on this side of the pond, or elsewhere,(I am "presuming" that rabbitsfizz has, since it was produced where she lives!
)ever watch Hugh Laurie in the various "Blackadder" series', with Rowan Atkinson? Talk about FUNNY(but, kinda raunchy-definitely adult fare....) It runs occasionally on the BBC America, on my satellite-and I'm sure is on cable, too. To me, it shows Laurie's versatility-it is a quantum leap from the various fopish characters he played on those shows, to the "Bernie? and Jeeves" series, to playing Stan Laurel in a movie about Laurel and Hardy, to the father in "Stuart Little", to "House". I got a kick out of his being nominated for an Emmy, too.
Rabbitsfizz is right; he doesn't have any regional accent in the series. Doesn't particularly bother me, but now I do wonder, is that an oversight on the part of his vocal coach, or ???? Maybe it's harder to replicate a regional accent than to to just a"generic" one? I will continue to watch the show, regardless!!