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ROBBIE COLTRANE ABOUT HUGH & HOUSE
…House, he believes, is an exception to the rule. “Hugh’s been very lucky. House has been terrific. Although I don’t think it would have happened without Cracker. That kind of misanthropic central character, you would never see in American television. A central character who is essentially rude, unpleasant and has huge problems. I can’t think of anything like that on American TV before House.”
Coltrane worked with Laurie on the Blackadder series in the Nineties, memorably playing an irascible Dr Johnson opposite Laurie’s stupid and foppish Prince of Wales. Coltrane is delighted, he says, by the success of House. “It’s so nice to see Hugh doing it. He was always hugely underrated as an actor.” …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandra…-interview.html