I watch House regularly and I think it's obvious with a show like that that they didn't chose the 5DII for the cost savings. They're a high earning show and they already have access to all of the standard film equipment you'd want.


I don't know anything about film or video, but watching the episode it seemed like they shot a lot of it from different points within a very confined space. A major portion of the episode was focused on a patient caught in a collapsed building. I can only guess that they must have chosen to use a SLR to make shooting within this space much easier and to not have to adjust the set as much for the different shots.


Either that or Canon paid them a bunch of money