By the time the third season aired, House had become an international phenomenon. The series was watched by 80 million viewers in 66 countries. As viewership grew, so did Hugh's fees, which were rumored to have reached $300,000 per episode, or about seven million per season. Hugh Laurie has become one of the highest paid television actors in the country. By the fifth season, Laurie was already earning about $400 thousand per episode. Not bad for a man who constantly tells everyone about his laziness and declares that he wanders through life without any plan. Here's how Hugh Laurie walked without much enthusiasm from the TV series Jeeves and Wooster to the phenomenal success in the role of Dr. House. tells the first biography of the actor in Russian.