If you are not watching "House"...

...then I seriously question your worth as a human being. (Okay, not seriously.) Thanks in no small part to Hugh Laurie's outstanding performance (yes, it's that Hugh Laurie, and it is a little unnerving to hear him with what passes for an American accent--it's good to know that they're as bad at imitating us as we are at imitating them), this show is consistently fascinating. Give it a shot. I don't think you'll be sorry.

OK. There is one problem, and that is this: since it's a "disease of the week" show, you'll need to be a bit liberal with the willing suspension of disbelief. But really, you watch it for the writing and the acting, not the disease of the week.