Sheldon and company will be around for at least two more seasons thanks to a deal that renews the hit CBS sitcom, “The Big Bang Theory” for two more years according to Variety.
“Big Bang” has shown consistent ratings growth this season in a competitive Monday time slot and is a solids lead-in for CBS’s Monday evening comedy line-up.
The news comes with a three-year pick-up for fellow sitcom “Two and a Half Men.” Both series are produced by Chuck Lorre.
One of these days, I’m going to watch that show.
Big Bang Theory, not Two and a Half Men.
Fantastic news. As one of the first in the entertainment news biz to really tout this show right here on Slice, I am so glad it didn’t let me or our fans down. Definitely one of the best comedies on TV since Friends and Seinfeld.
If you haven’t watched the Big Bang Theory, do it. It’s worth it.
It’s better than Friends and has, in my opinion, captured that flow of Seinfeld. Only 2 years??? CBS is being awfully short-sighted on this one.
This is the only sit-com I’ve watched in years. I watch this show as religiously as Battlestar Galactica, or Lost…
So at least when those two shows end, I’ll still have something worth watching.
I got turned onto BANG by, well, seeing Penny the first time. I’ve watched it ever since. She’s gorgeous.
However, I would say that the writers for the show really only strike a solid chord with me about one out of every three episodes or so. Two out of three times they come up with situations that could be on ANY sitcom, and I hate that. I prefer the more truly geeky situations they find themselves in … but I still watch ’em all.
Great cast, and great that they’re given two more seasons, at least.
Uh-oh . . . more bad news for me; I’ve tried watching it a few times, and to me it comes across as stilted. The canned laugh track is intrusive (at least I hope it’s canned), and the characters/actors are not very good in the delivery of their lines. It seems painfully obvious they are reading a script, and at least the shows I watched were like watching a bunch of 30 second scenes strung together, and each scene punctuated by said laugh track.
The bad news is it’s more proof I will never get my geek card. Wait, perhaps it’s an age thing; I’m not much into texting, twitter, or similar methods of communication. For those who are, the show must feel like a slice of life.