As Johnny Galecki gravely foreshadowed at the very beginning of this year, The Big Bang Theory is going to come to an end in 2019 after the conclusion of its 12th season—which begins next month. That will put the show at 279 episodes, securing its spot as the longest-running muti-camera comedy in TV history and…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is the latest tech wiz to drop by The Big Bang Theory. As CNN reports, the billionaire philanthropist will guest star in a March episode of the ever-popular CBS sitcom, joining a long line of nerdy icons like Stephen Hawking, Buzz Aldrin, Steve Wozniak, and Elon Musk.

Last February, CBS renewed The Big Bang Theory for two additional seasons, with the 11th on now and the 12th airing next year. As unthinkable as it may seem, though, one of the show’s stars thinks it won’t continue at all after that 12th season. This comes from Deadline, which says Johnny Galecki said at TCA yesterday…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro likely didn’t have to give much of a pitch to Warner Bros. and CBS to get Young Sheldon, their new Big Bang Theory spin-off, off the ground. The words “Big Bang Theory spin-off” probably did the trick just fine. As the story goes, the idea was birthed by Older Sheldon himself, Jim…

This week marks the 10th year CBS’s The Big Bang Theory has been on the air, and even this late in its life, it remains the most-watched comedy on television. With the show’s 11th season just around the corner, we discovered six surprising facts about the ratings juggernaut.

CBS released its primetime schedule for the 2017-18 broadcast season this morning, naturally slotting in its Big Bang Theory spinoff Young Sheldon after Big Bang Theory. However, execs promised at the network’s annual breakfast this morning that the single camera series starring Big Little Lies’ Iain Armitage will…

Everyone enjoys making fun of Donald Trump—because he’s a dummy and a creep who is bad at everything he attempts—and though not every joke at his expense can be as monumental as the first time somebody pointed out that his hands are disproportionately small, it can still be cathartic to get some digs in from time to…

No matter what happens with The Batman, there will be no shortage of Dark Knight-centered films in the coming years, as Warner Bros. has just announced a new animated feature. According to ScreenRant, Kevin Conroy is returning to voice the Caped Crusader in Batman & Harley Quinn, with The Big Bang Theory’s Melissa…

In what was probably one of the easiest decisions a TV executive has ever made, CBS has decided to give a straight-to-series order to The Big Bang Theory prequel series Young Sheldon. That comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which notes that this is the first time the network and the show’s producers have “confirmed…

Now in its 10th season, The Big Bang Theory is something of a cultural institution, its writers ably cranking out nerd jokes and also jokes about nerds for an audience of almost 20 million. As is so often the case, its jokes are met by the canned laughter, whooping, outrage, and awe of an audience of automatons,…

Deadline reports that CBS’s long-running monster hit The Big Bang Theory is closing in on a deal that would secure two more seasons of the high-ratings nerd comedy that the network so clearly craves. The deal would lock the show’s cast in through a potential twelfth season, airing some time in 2018.

There’s nothing new about a U.S. president using some primetime real estate to announce a Supreme Court nominee. When Sandra Day O’Connor stepped down in 2005, George W. Bush introduced his pick to succeed Justice O’Connor, John Roberts, in a press conference televised during evening hours. But the first woman to sit…

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According to Variety, Christopher Lloyd has signed on for what will surely be another one of his delightfully self-referential TV cameos. He was on Spin City opposite Michael J. Fox way back in the day, he’ll be appearing on Syfy’s time travel show 12 Monkeys later this year, and now he’s going to be making a guest…

You know what this world needs more of? Sheldon Cooper. Ah, yes, CBS has decided that there isn’t enough Bazinga in the universe. Deadline reports that the network is in early negotiations for a Big Bang Theory spinoff titled Sheldon, centered on the Jim Parsons character. So if you already felt a looming sense of…

Back in August, news broke that this current season of Comedy Bang! Bang! would be the series’ last. The news came just two months after regular TV Club coverage for the series ended. That’s not to say there’s any causation or even correlation between the two events though. Because while regular coverage is in fact…

Compared to acting in a movie, which may require you to go to an exotic location for a couple of months and then just relax while the nerds use digital effects to fill in the details, working on a TV show is almost like a real job. You go to the same place every day, you generally see the same people, and you get to…

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