The Big Bang Theory

If you're quick enough with the pause button, you can see a historic scene from Regina included in the sequence of images played at the start of each episode of the CBS show "The Big Bang Theory".

If there is one breakthrough TV role over the past year or so, it is Jim Parsons ’ turn as physicist Sheldon Cooper in the hit CBS sitcom " The Big Bang Theory .” Brilliant, supercilious and socially clueless, Cooper is alternately hysterical and horrifying. And Parsons’ Emmy-nominated per...

As initially conceived, there was no Penny, the lovable girl-next-door on CBS’ top-rated comedy, “The Big Bang Theory.” There was just a super-sarcastic neighbor named Katie who was mercilessly mean to her super-geek neighbors, Leonard and Sheldon. But test audiences despised that ch...

If there is one breakthrough TV role over the past year or so, it is Jim Parsons's turn as physicist Sheldon Cooper in the hit CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory." Brilliant, supercilious, soci

The Bozeman Reaction Fans in Bozeman raised a collective questioning eyebrow last week when the CBS television show, “The Big Bang Theory,” announced its latest episode, “The Bozeman Reaction.”

An unusual thing started to happen last season during tapings of "The Big Bang Theory," a winning comedy that has become a breakout hit for CBS (8:30 p.m. Monday, WBBM-Ch. 2).

The producers of CBS' The Big Bang Theory revealed that comic-book legend Stan Lee will appear as a guest on an upcoming episode, the latest in a string of sci-fi cameos that has included Star Trek 's Wil Wheaton, Battlestar Galactica 's Katee Sackhoff and Dollhouse 's Summer Glau. (Spoile...

Holding out hope for a Sheldon-Penny romance on The Big Bang Theory ? It might be time to throw in the towel. Speaking to reporters at press tour this morning, exec producer Chuck Lorre pretty much shot down any chance there was of the polar opposites hooking up.

The Big Bang Theory (CBS): I'll say this flat out. The BEST traditionally structured situation comedy on television. Why aren't you watching this show every ...

The Big Bang Theory," 8:30 pm, CBS. In a funny rerun, Penny starts an at-home business. That's going fine, until Sheldon takes over and pushes the ... and more »

Review: The Middle - Christmas blog) Just like The Big Bang Theory was a breakout hit waiting to happen, I think The Middle is being overshadowed by Modern Family. Maybe a shake-up is just what ... and more »

The most entertaining sci-fi ensemble on TV today isn't to be found on Lost or Heroes , but rather on The Big Bang Theory , with its four geniuses who love sci-fi TV, movies, comics and games as much as we do, and the beautiful next-door neighbor who learns to love them . (Well, one of them, anywa...

Review: Dollhouse - The Public Eye blog) I think Glau is channeling a little Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper in her portrayal (and she did guest star on The Big Bang Theory last season). ... and more »

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Finale watch: 'The Big Bang Theory' For instance, I greatly enjoyed the way that Sheldon riffed on his own difficulties in relating to others. He guessed what Leonard was feeling two times in a row, and he was so proud of himself that he deadpanned, "I'm on fire. ...

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By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 04.00 The Big Bang Theory 04.30 Buck Rogers 06.30 Reaper 07.30 Kyle XY 08.30 Supernatural The Big Bang Theory. Season 2, Episode 9. "The White Asparagus Triangulation" Sheldon tries to 'help' Leonard in his new relationship. Very funny. Sheldon is paired with Penny for several scenes, all hilarious, and spends the rest of the episode annoying Leonard and his new girlfriend. The other two are sidelined a bit, and Leslie is completely left out. Again. I thought she was being added to the cast full time. What gives? Reaper. Season 2, Episode 4. "The Favorite" Sam has to work with another son of The Devil. Kyle XY. Season 3, Episode 6. "Welcome to Latnok" Kyle joins Latnok.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Once again, the show take two of the core five characters and pits them against one another in a 'battle'. While it is no longer remarkable that the show is incredibly funny, it is amazing that the show can create hilarity from any aspect of these characters and their lives. I don't mean the plots. I mean the tiny details of every episode. Think about it: the main story is always very funny, the one-liners are always very funny, the things that the characters are talking about are funny, the 'real' lives of the characters are also very funny. So it doesn't matter what direction the show takes from scene to scene. A scene that advances the plot will be funny, a scenes where the characters argue about Star Trek will be funny, a scene where Howard has to dea...   [read the full post]

By DarkUFO(noreply@blogger.com) It's official: Hit sitcoms "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" will remain on CBS for several years to come. As for "Bang," which stars Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar, show is averaging 10.1 million viewers and a 3.7/10 with adults 18-49. Lor...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.00 The Big Bang Theory 05.30 Reaper 06.30 Kyle XY 07.30 Supernatural The Big Bang Theory. Season 2, Episode 7. "The Panty Piñata Polarization" Penny and Sheldon go to war, while the other guys try to find the Next Top Model house. Wonderful. Hilarious. Driven by the character traits of Sheldon and Penny. Since Leonard secretly helps Penny in the end, this cleverly keeps the possibility of romance between them going without actually boring us by writing about it. Reaper. Season 2, Episode 2. "Dirty Sexy Mongol" There's a mongol on the loose, and Ben meets a demon... Kyle XY. Season 3, Episode 5. "Life Support" Nicole might die. Supernatural. Season 3, Episode 16. "No Rest for the Wicked" Dean is ripped apart by hell hounds and dragged off to Hell.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.00 The Big Bang Theory 05.30 Reaper 06.30 Supernatural 07.30 Kyle XY 12.30 Lost The Big Bang Theory. Season 2, Episode 6. "The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem" I've often wondered if they would/could give Sheldon a love interest/girlfriend. Even for one episode. Guess what? They found a way to do it. And it's spectacular. Jokes work here that would never work on any other show. Reaper. Season 2, Episode 1. "A New Hope" Sam must capture 40 bad guys at once. Supernatural. Season 3, Episode 15. "Time Is On My Side" Billy Drago guests as killer who has found eternal life. Kyle XY. Season 3, Episode 4. "In the Company of Men" Kyle gets drunk while out on the town.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 07.30 The Big Bang Theory 08.00 The Closer 09.00 House The Big Bang Theory. Season 2, Episode 5. "The Euclid Alternative" Sheldon learns to drive. Amusing example of one of the show's oft-used plots: Sheldon's quirky ways annoy the others. The opening ten minutes are the best: Sheldon forces Penny into giving him a lift to work. Once he sets about learning to drive the humour is more predictable and less specific to these characters and this show. Lots of past sitcoms (Perfect Strangers and Taxi spring to mind) have shown us what happens when quirky characters learn to drive (or navigate the hallways of the DMV). House. Season 5, Episode 15. "Unfaithful" Sick priest. Not me.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 07.00 The Big Bang Theory 08.00 The Closer 09.30 House 12.45 NewsRadio The Big Bang Theory. Season 2, Episode 4. "The Griffin Equivalency" Fame goes to Raj's head. Average episode. Raj and Penny are paired, for once, and the 'comedy' comes from the fact that the normally shy guy turns arrogant and obnoxious. None of it is particularly funny, but there is an amusing moment where Leonard apparently sees Raj leaving Penny's appartment the next morning. The Closer. Season 4, Episode 14. "Fate Line" Text messages on an abandoned phone point to murder. House. Season 4, Episode 14. "The Greater Good" Thirteen is sick. NewsRadio. Season 3, Episode 7. "Daydream" Everyone has daydreams on a hot day.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 03.15 The Big Bang Theory 03.45 The Office The Big Bang Theory. Season 2, Episode 3. "The Barbarian Sublimation" Penny gets addicted to online gaming. The Office" is a show without formula episodes, indeed pretty much every story is about a break from the routine of day-to-day office life, but this installment is even more of a departure than normal. For the second week in a row Michael and Pam are away from the office and, more important, Pam is away from Jim. Don't get me wrong I love them as a couple but the show needs to keep them busy in other plotlines. Pam makes a great partner for Michael and Jenna Fischer is hilarious when Pam has to step up and fill in for Michael after his melt-down.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 The Big Bang Theory 07.00 CSI 08.00 Greek 09.00 The Closer 10.00 Lie To Me The Big Bang Theory. Season 2, Episode 2. "The Codpiece Topology" Leonard dates Leslie. The wonderful Sara Gilbert makes a return to the show. Now as a regular. Excellent news. Gilbert is a superb talent who has been trapped in sub-par material for far too long. Not any more: Big Bang Theory might well the funniest show on TV right now. Leonard and Penny are no more. No surprise there. The show needs to keep them apart, in order to fuel more suspense. I have no problems with that, now that we all know Penny likes Leonard we can see a future for them and it makes perfect sense to keep them apart for a while longer. Makes sense? Huh, it's practically a TV tradition!   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 09.30 The Big Bang Theory 02.00 NewsRadio The Big Bang Theory. Season 2, Episode 1. "The Bad Fish Paradigm" Sheldon tries to keep a secret that Penny has confided in him. Besides, the show isn't about Leonard and Penny as a potential couple. There are many more important things to be enjoyed in this show. Sheldon is probably the single best thing about the show and his interactions with Penny dominate this episode and provide a multitude of laughs. Having Penny confide in Sheldon and having him struggle with keeping a secret was/is inspired writing. Highlight? The Big Bang Theory (Penny and Sheldon are funny together) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog   [read the full post]

Here's where I review basically whatever movie crosses my desk. The movies usually fall in at least one of these categories: obscure, straight-to-DVD, strange, awful, horror, and sometimes, hidden gem. But it's the randomness that makes it all the more fun.) This week it's "Killer Movie"...

By Vance(thehues@gmail.com) Christine Baranski is Mrs. Hofstadter. Leonard's mom. And she's exactly as nerdy and unemotional and odd as Sheldon. Man, that was one of the funniest episodes to date! Between Penny and Leonard bonding over their lack of parental bonding and almost sleeping with each other, and Mrs. Hofstad...

By McCluskey and Miller The Big Bang Theory [9:30 PM, CBS] - Penny (Kaley Cuoco) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) grow closer when Leonard's mom (guest-star Christine Baranski) visits and they resort to alcohol to take the edge off. The Obama press conference (5 PM here on the West Coast) messes with primetime on the...

By Matt Mitovich 8 pm/ET House won the hour with 14.75 million total viewers, dropping 810,000 from last week's season high. The Bachelor averaged 10.99 mil over its two-hour run (a new season high), but got bested by The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men along the way.

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 The Big Bang Theory 07.00 CSI 08.00 Greek 09.00 The Closer 12.00 NewsRadio The Big Bang Theory. Episode 16. "The Peanut Reaction" The gang plan a surprise party for Leonard (who's never had a birthday party). There are two threads in this one, and both are funny. Penny and Sheldon are paired at an electronics store (while he gift shops). Sheldon paired with anyone is funny, and this is no exception. Meanwhile Wolowitz fakes a reaction to peanuts to get the birthday boy out of the apartment. Solid episode. CSI. Season 6, Episode 7. "A Bullet Runs Through It" Brass and Curtis are part of huge gun battle that Gil and the team must investigate. NewsRadio. Season 3, Episode 5. "Halloween" The gang dress up for Jimmy's Halloween party.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 The Big Bang Theory 07.00 CSI 08.00 Greek 03.30 NewsRadio CSI. Season 6, Episode 5. "Gum Drops" Nick and Sara examine an empty house, filled with blood. Despite all evidence to the contrary Nick comes to believe that the family's ten-year-old daughter is still alive. Somewhere... Few episodes are as involving as this one. This particular story manages to create an emotional link between the viewer and the missing family (particularly the young girl that Nick feels a bond with). NewsRadio. Season 3, Episode 4. "Arcade" Unusual to find Dave being the crazy one, but Dave Foley is great fun to watch as his character becomes obsessed with an arcade game from his youth.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.30 The Big Bang Theory 07.00 Mission: Impossible 09.00 Greek 12.00 NewsRadio The Big Bang Theory. Episode 14. "The Nerdvana Annihilation" The guys buy a time machine. Not a real time machine (sadly) but a movie prop. A large one. Which causes problems for Penny, driving her to lash out at her neighbour's crazy hobbies. So Leonard decides to sell everything and grow up. Mission: Impossible. Episode 80. "The Controllers" Part Two finds Jim and the team in lots of trouble: a man they need to make the scam work has just been killed... Greek. Episode 19. "No Campus for Old Rules" Cappie must gave a speech to save the greek system, have the restrictions lifted and... get back some sports tickets.   [read the full post]

By Vance(noreply@blogger.com) The Big Bang Theory - The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis - Ep. 211 It was also nice to see a hottie nerd (Michael Trucco, Battlestar Galactica) around with Leonard and Penny both having a mancrush. Too bad we found out hottie nerd was married, and this was AFTER his date with Penny.

The Big Bang Theory 2. Yes, the ep was big on Penny/Leonard, but I thought it interesting that they basically got each other gag gifts, while Sheldon and Penny each really put some thought into the gifts they got each other. Clearly Penny saw Leonard Nimoy at TCF and thought of SHELDON! to ask f...

By -E(noreply@blogger.com) I have a thing for dorks. That dictated my desire, no my need, to watch The Big Bang Theory. I quickly fell in love with Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki). The two are roommates and physicists; they know everything about integrals and black holes but have little to no knowledg...

Leonard compares Howard’s attempt to attract women with his unusual attire to “the rutting baboon with engorged hindquarters.” Sheldon compares it to “the bar mitzvah boy with pinkeye.” I think I’d like to try Howard’s mom’s brisket. “It’s Howard.”

Sheldon decides that he's too evolved to learn how to drive

By Jaime Weinman Which means that even though The Big Bang Theory started as a show about nerds learning to deal with the world, its success now depends on a character who wants the world to go away and leave him alone. Prady told Bob Andelman (www.andelman.com) that the “order and perfection” of scientific re...

By Medeor In other news, Age of Conan was featured in The Big Bang Theory. I haven't watched the show, but I've heard good things about it. Whether the cute blond getting infatuated with the game (while her groceries spoil in the hallway) really portrays gaming in a positive light is suspect. Heck, Worl...

By Jason the TVaholic The Big Bang Theory (CBS): New. Leonard sees Penny with a good-looking new guy and decides to start thing up again with Leslie Winkle, played by Sara Gilbert (Roseanne). How I Met Your Mother (CBS): New. Marshall is on a quest for the best burger in New York and runs into Regis Philbin.

By Jason the TVaholic Overall, Chuck it’s the best bet in the first hour of primetime on Mondays, but there sure is a lot of good stuff to choose from in that time period. CBS has The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother, The CW has Gossip Girl and FOX has Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. For me, this is one n...

By noreply@blogger.com (KP) Show: The Big Bang Theory Starring: Johnny Galecki (Leonard), Jim Parsons (Sheldon), Simon Helberg (Howard), Kunal Nayyar (Raj), Kaley Cuoco (Penny), Sara Gilbert (Leslie). Where We Left Off: Leonard and Penny had shared a spark-filled kiss and were about to go on their first date, but according to some interviews with Kaley Cuoco, it may not be all smooth sailing from here. Sheldon, Howard, and Raj are all still pretty much the same, but sure to provide continued comic genius throughout the second season. Casting News: Sara Gilbert has been bumped up from guest star to regular, so she will continue to play Leslie Winkle, one of the boys' fellow researchers at the university and Sheldon's nemesis.   [read the full post]

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By Russ T.C.  THE BIG BANG THEORY, in its freshman season, is averaging 8.36 million viewers and, with original episodes, has improved the year ago Monday (8:30-9:00 PM) time period by +15% in adults 18-49 and +5% in viewers. THE BIG BANG THEORY is produced by Warner Bros. Television.  Chuck Lorre, Bill P...