Question: As a viewer of Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, both Chuck Lorre sitcoms, I feel qualified to say what in the world are the Emmy voters thinking? The Big Bang Theory is the most creative and funniest new sitcom in years, and they pass it over for Two and a Half Men? Then they compound it by nominating Charlie Sheen for best actor while passing over the funniest new sitcom actor in years, Big Bang's Jim Parsons? Men is no more than one sex joke after another, and Charlie just has a new conquest ever week, while Jim Parsons has the difficult role of being the new Felix Unger and the difficullty of learning all the science stuff every week. It really is a shame that the Emmy voters chose the wrong Chuck Lorre sitcom to recognize, because Big Bang could have used the recognition to help build its audience. Sometimes I think it's the best show on TV that people have missed. I wish more viewers would find it, because they simply don't know what they are missing.
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The May 8 CSI 9 pmET CBS is all about rubber chicken and not the kind they serve at Vegas conventions In an unusual crossover Two and a Half Men creators Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn and their writing staff penned the script for the episode Its called Two and a Half Deaths reveals CSI executive producer Naren Shankar who returned the favor by cowriting the murder-themed May 5 episode of Men And a rubber chicken figures prominentlyThe story revolves around the death of a sitcom diva played by Katey Sagal whos so hated by her coworkers that when she turns up dead everyones a suspect Its more a case of who didnt do it than awhodunit says executive producer Carol MendelsohnCSI is usually dark and bizarre but this one promises to be laugh-out-loud funny according to Mendelsohn Its a murder mystery in the style of the great Columbo and classic detective shows that we all know and love she says It combines the wit and insight of Chuck Lorre
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It's not Christine Baranski, but this'll do nicely. The sublime Rachael Harris (Notes from the Underbelly, Fat Actress) will play even-tempered sidekick to Cybill Shepherd's Katey Sagal's unhinged sitcom diva in that stuntastic episode of CSI penned by Two and a Half Men scribes Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn. And should there be any lingering doubts that Lorre and Aronsohn modeled Sagal and Harris' characters after Shepherd and Baranski, both of whom the writers worked with on Cybill, this next little tidbit should erase them: Sources confirm what I hinted at last August, that the duo first offered the second-banana role to Baranski herself. That's right, they wanted Baranski to play Baranski! But for whatever reason — possibly this one — she wasn't able to do it. Um, have I told you lately how much I'm looking forward to this episode?
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Holy crap! They're actually going through with it! As we previously reported, the writers of Two and a Half Men and CSI are switching teams for an episode of each others' series to air this May. Well, for the funnymen's CSI installment, it appears that they're sticking with their original plan and killing off their old boss, Cybill Shepherd!If you'll recall, Two and a Half's main Men, Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn, used to exec-produce the laffer Cybill, where their leading lady was said to be, to put it mildly, difficult. Now, according to an early outline of the episode obtained by yours truly, as payback, in the CSI titled "Two and a Half Deaths," the scribes have created an ill-fated sitcom ball-buster named Annabelle Bundt who never met a back she wouldn't stab. As if the fact that Annabelle's show is named after her isn't enough evidence of the correlation we are supposed to make, the guys have also given their she-devil an even-tempered and "infinitely more talented" on-screen...
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This, friends, is nearly on par with Henry Gray stumping for Mer-Der via séance. Robyn Asimov, daughter of the late Isaac Asimov ("the prolific writer, scientist and charismatic geek," as she herself puts it) reached out to us in response to a TVGuide.com feature on CBS' The Big Bang Theory, and to share her especially qualified affinity for the show about a pair of quirky physicists. "[It] is delightfully witty, a brilliant mix of intelligent dialogue with comedy, and absolutely spot-on regarding the wonderful, cerebrally sexy world of nerds," she told us.Asimov — who in 2004 countered film critics with her support of the big-screen take on her father's I, Robot short-story series, and now is chairman and trustee of his estate — referenced this week's episode, saying that "discussing my father’s Three Laws of Robotics during the hysterical conversation among three of the cast members, theorizing if one was a robot — and would he want to be told — was p...
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