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Jun 19,2010
The Big Bang Theory at Comic-Con
The Big Bang Theory is to appear at Comic-Con for the third time this year. The show’s cast and creators chaired a panel discussion on the show at the 2008 and 2009 events. Comic-Con 2010 will take place in San Diego from July 22nd to July 25th.
I am going to Comic Con this year, hopefully, i get to see the cast. So excited!!
Apr 27,2010
The New York Times has a new article about the the reactions of real scientists to The Big Bang Theory. They also chat with the cast about their opinions.
Three years later some scientists still say that although the series, “The Big Bang Theory” (Monday nights on CBS), is funny and scientifically accurate, they are put off by it. “Makes me cringe,” said Bruce Margon, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explaining, “The terrible stereotyping of the nerd plus the dumb blond are steps backwards for science literacy.”
Lisa Randall, a Harvard particle theorist who has visited the show’s set twice and appeared as an uncredited extra in one scene said, “I do think the writers are genuinely clever.” Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Arizona State, and author of “The Physics of Star Trek,” said he had changed his initial dire opinion about the program. “First, because it is funny, and continues to be,” he said. “Second, because the characters have developed softer edges, and one of them has the girl!”
The point of the show, Mr. Prady said, is to tell small stories. “We are not doing ‘Lost,’ we’re not doing a complex novel for TV,” he said. “We follow the characters, and let them tell us what they’re going to do next. We’re telling stories about outsiders. We all feel like outsiders. Can you find love? Penny pulls Leonard to the outside world; Sheldon pulls him back.” Mr. Lorre said that the whole “challenge and joy” of a series like this is character development. “Maybe at the end of the day this will inspire some kids to go into physics,” he added, “just like ‘Cheers’ inspired countless young people to go into bars.”
Apr 05,2010
Thanks very much to Bill Prady’s Twitter account we have a new set photo from The Big Bang Theory! His tweet says; “Preshooting scenes for the #bigbangtheory season finale. New set: the roof.”
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- Twitter Photos: Bill Prady
Mar 24,2010
The Brisbane Times has a new interview with Big Bang Theory producer and writer Chuck Lorre where he talks about the series.
To Lorre, who is sitting in a corner office in a production building in Burbank’s sprawling Warner Bros film and television lot, it makes perfect sense. “Regardless of the fact that they’re dealing with quantum mechanics, they’re still dealing with feelings and emotions, and those are the things that are commonly shared,” he says.”The heart of the show is a feeling that you don’t quite get it, or you think you’ve got it but you haven’t. That’s the universal way in for these characters – wanting to participate in the world but not feeling like you know how. ”
“We’re coming up to the 150th episode of Two and a Half Men and about a third of the way along that with Big Bang Theory and the magic trick of it all is, how do you keep it fresh without being redundant, without becoming a formulaic show where the audience is way ahead of you?” he says.”The nature of television is that you’re telling a story without an ending. By economic necessity it can’t end so the trick is to find a way to keep it alive, and that’s frustrating.”
“There are elements in both shows that might be flying under the radar to a certain part of the audience but I’m really wary of making the show insulated or elitist in that way – a show that communicates to a select few – because that’s offensive,” Lorre says. “I don’t want people to feel excluded, that’s not our job. Our job is simple – to entertain and not to pick who we want to entertain. That’s self-destructive.”
“I’m always looking for the things that feel universal to the human experience, the inner relationship, the romantic relationship, feeling insecure that you’re not measuring up … They’re like a surrogate family so it doesn’t matter what they do for a living or how old they are or where they live, it should play as a shared experience and that’s the best source of comedy.”
