The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom. The show premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007, and concluded on May 16, 2019, having broadcast a total of 279 episodes over twelve seasons. In 2017, the series spawned a prequel series, Young Sheldon, based on Jim Parsons’ character, Sheldon Cooper. The series was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series from 2011 to 2014.
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The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom. The show premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007, and concluded on May 16, 2019, having broadcast a total of 279 episodes over twelve seasons. In 2017, the series spawned a prequel series, Young Sheldon, based on Jim Parsons’ character, Sheldon Cooper; it also airs on CBS. The series was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series from 2011 to 2014, and won the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series four times for Parsons. The original unaired pilot has never been officially released, but it has circulated on the Internet. Despite early mixed reviews, seven seasons of the show have ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings, ultimately reaching the no. 1 spot in its eleventh season. The first pilot used Thomas Dolby’s hit \”She Blinded Me with Science\” as its theme song. Although the original pilot was not picked up, its creators were given an opportunity to retool it and produce a second pilot. They brought in the remaining cast and retooled the show to its final format. The reworked second pilot led to a 13-episode order by CBS on May 14, 2007. It was picked up for a full 22-episode season on October 19, 2008, in an earlier time slot, and ultimately replaced by a short-lived sitcom, Welcome to Captain America. Nearly three months later, on February 4, 2008 the series was temporarily replaced by another sitcom, The Captain, which aired for a short time until the strike ended.
After the first season ended, the show returned on March 17, 2008. It is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions and it is filmed in front of a live audience. The only main characters retained in both pilots were Leonard and Sheldon, who are named after Sheldon Leonard, a longtime figure in episodic television as producer, director and actor. A minor character, Althea, appeared in the first scene of both pilots that was retained generally as-is. The original pilot included two female lead characters – Katie, a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman with a vulnerable interior, and Gilda, a scientist colleague and friend of the male characters. Sheldon and Leonard meet Katie after she breaks up with a boyfriend, and they invite her to share their apartment. Test audiences reacted negatively to Katie, but they liked Leonard and Leonard. In total, it won seven Emmy Awards from 46 nominations. Jim Parsons also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor In a Television Comedy Series in 2011. The episode distributed on iTunes free of charge was distributed on April 14, 2011, and was a free download on April 15, 2011. It also aired on April 16, 2011 and April 17, 2012, and April 20, 2012. It aired on March 22, 2013, and May 13, 2013 and May 17, 2013. It has been replaced by the series The Good Wife, which airs on ABC.
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