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.”