‘The Big Bang Theory’ Spinoff Is Officially in the Works at Warner Bros. Television: Details
usmagazine.comComing back for another round! A second spinoff series inspired by The Big Bang Theory is officially being developed at Warner Bros.
Television.The studio announced on Wednesday, April 12, that executive producer Chuck Lorre will be creating a new comedy series based on The Big Bang Theory universe.
No plot or casting details have been revealed yet. The series will air on Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service, Max (which is being rebranded after being introduced in 2020 as HBO Max).The OG series, which aired from 2007 to 2019, starred Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper), Kaley Cuoco (Penny Teller), Johnny Galecki (Leonard Hofstadter), Simon Helberg (Howard Wolowitz), Kunal Nayyar (Raj Koothrappali), Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) and Melissa Rauch (Bernadette Rostenkowski) as a group of friends made up of physicists and their significant others.During its run, the CBS comedy won 10 Emmy Awards and spawned the prequel series, Young Sheldon.
Parsons, 50, who serves as the executive producer and narrator for the Sheldon-centered prequel, previously discussed the decision to end The Big Bang Theory after more than a decade.“It’s both as complex and as simple as just feeling innately that it was time,” the actor told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. “It speaks to a lot of things, none of them bad.
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