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Television has changed quite a bit since a socially awkward genius last knocked three times on his neighbor’s door. Streaming has grown exponentially, entire services have appeared and disappeared, and hundreds of new shows are fighting for attention every week, and yet people can’t help but shake off the feeling that it all started with a big bang.
Seven years after its series finale, The Big Bang Theory is officially the No. 2 streaming program in America, generating an enormous 1.071 billion minutes watched on HBO Max during the week of August 31 through September 6. According to Nielsen, the only show Americans spent more time streaming that week was Prime Video’s Reacher, which finished at No. 1 with 1.246 billion minutes. It pulled ahead of current hits including Beauty in Black, Ted Lasso, Lioness and Outer Banks. Nielsen also ranked it No. 1 among acquired streaming titles, comfortably ahead of **Bluey **at No. 2.
Created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, the series follows Mensa-fied best friends and roommates Leonard and Sheldon, physicists who work at the California Institute of Technology who may be able to tell everybody more than they want to know about quantum physics, but getting through most basic social situations, especially ones involving women, totally baffles them. How lucky, then, that dashing waitress/aspiring actress Penny moves in next door.
The cast is led by Jim Parsons (Hidden Figures) as Sheldon, Johnny Galecki (Roseanne) as Leonard, **Kaley Cuoco **(The Flight Attendant) as Penny, Simon Helberg (Florence Foster Jenkins) as Howard, Kunal Nayyar (Spaceman) as Raj, Mayim Bialik (Blossom) as Amy, and Melissa Rauch (Night Court) as Bernadette.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Absolutely enormous. The Big Bang Theory ran for 12 seasons and 279 episodes between 2007 and 2019, becoming one of the defining network sitcoms of its era. By its later seasons, it was regularly among the most-watched entertainment programs on American television, while Parsons won four Primetime Emmys for playing Sheldon.
The franchise didn’t disappear when the original series ended, either. Young Sheldon ran for seven seasons and subsequently spawned Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, while HBO Max has continued developing the universe with Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.
The Big Bang Theory is streaming now on HBO Max in the United States.
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2007 - 2019-00-00
Mark Cendrowski
Mark Cendrowski
Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady
A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.