Nickelodeon has acquired the off-network rights to CBS sitcom “Young Sheldon” beginning this fall with the first three seasons (65 episodes). Future seasons of “The Big Bang Theory” prequel, which is heading into season four, will air in later years. The logline: In the single camera, half-hour comedy “Young Sheldon,” viewers get the chance to […]
Streamer HBO Max has acquired the exclusive U.S. subscription-video-on-demand rights CBS comedy “Young Sheldon” in a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. HBO Max is also the streaming home of the entire library of its parent series, “The Big Bang Theory.” “We now feel like our ‘Big Bang’ offering is complete,” said Kevin Reilly, […]
Sheldon Cooper’s (Jim Parsons) super hero shirt over shirt…Howard Wolowitz’s (Simon Helberg) dickie and belt buckle…Amy Farrah Fowler’s (Mayim Bialik) knee-length skirt. All these and more will become part of history as they join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The news was announced by series stars Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, […]
Mart Crowley’s 1968 play “The Boys in the Band,” which debuted on Broadway last year, will be adapted as a movie for Netflix. The project is from Ryan Murphy, who produced the revival alongside David Stone, and it follows a group of gay men who convene in a New York City apartment for a friend’s birthday […]
Netflix has greenlit eight episodes of a comedy series called “Special” from Warner Bros. TV, Jim Parsons’ That’s Wonderful, and Stage 13. The series premieres on April 12. The logline: Based on Ryan O’Connell’s part-memoir, part-manifesto ‘I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves,’ the series centers on a gay man with mild cerebral palsy who […]
”Young Sheldon,” the most-watched new network sitcom in 18 years, has been picked-up by CBS for the 2018-19 TV season (with an expected full season episode order). The single-camera series, a prequel to “The Big Bang Theory,” is averaging 16.17 million viewers and a 3.3 rating in adults 18-49, which makes it the No. 2 […]
It is official. CBS has picked-up the top-rated sitcom in primetime, “The Big Bang Theory,” for two more seasons. This takes it through the 2018-19 TV season, which will put it in a tie with “Two and a Half Men” and “My Three Sons” as the second longest running scripted comedy in the history of […]
CBS has announced the series order of “Young Sheldon,” narrated by Jim Parsons, a new half-hour, single-camera comedy for broadcast in the 2017-2018 season. Created by Chuck Lorre & Steven Molaro, the series follows “The Big Bang Theory’s” Sheldon Cooper at the age of 9, living with his family in East Texas and going to […]
CBS is reportedly close to renewing the most-watched show in primetime, “The Big Bang Theory,” for another two seasons. Upon completion, this will put the series in a tie with “My Three Sons” and “Two and a Half Men” as the second longest live action sitcom in the history of television (behind “The Adventures of […]
