Russian television will film a remake of "Doctor House"

The All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and the Rossiya 1 TV channel are starting filming a remake of the TV series Doctor House, the holding said in a statement.

The production company of Alexander Rodnyansky "Non-stop production" will be engaged in the creation of the series.

Alexey Serebryakov will play the main role in the Russian version of House Doctor. Filming for the series will begin in April. The first season is scheduled to be released before the end of 2016.

“The Russian version of House M.D. will be the first official remake of the famous series,” the VGTRK holding said in a statement.

Interfax

• The American series House, MD was filmed by Universal Television for the FOX network. The first season of the series was shown in 2004, the last, eighth, season - in 2012. British actor Hugh Laurie played the title role in the series.
• In 2010, Russian television aired the TV series "Doctor Tyrsa" starring Mikhail Porechenkov, which was initially positioned as "the Russian answer to "Doctor House"". Later, the authors of the project repeatedly stated that we are talking about the original series, which is united with House M.D. only by the main character, a diagnostician.
• In 2015, the series "Motherland" was filmed in the Russian Federation with Vladimir Mashkov in the title role. Motherland, like the American Homeland, was based on Gideon Raff's Israeli television series Prisoners of War.
• Other examples of adaptations of foreign series for Russian television include Escape (2010), based on the American Prison Break (2005-2009), and the 2016 TV series Klim, a version of the British Luther.