TVGuide.com's Matt Mitovich (third from left) "geeks out" with the Big Bang cast.
Talk about your miracles of modern science. Just last week, the TVGuide.com video crew paid a visit to the set of CBS' increasingly popular The Big Bang Theory — and the episode we saw them taping airs tonight! It's a great one, too, as Sheldon's new "friendship" with robot war rival Kripke forces him to "vote out" a member of his existing (anti)social circle. Jim Parsons shares a look at the episode in the video after the jump!
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When last we tuned into CBS' The Big Bang Theory, Penny and Leonard debated "opening Schrödinger's Box" by embarking on a date. But one kiss later, they were racing off to their dinner reservation. Has this unlikely couple struck a lasting match? "I think it's going to take a lot of mistakes [before that happens]," theorizes Kaley Cuoco in this video. "You've [first] got to mess things up left and right."Cuoco speculates that Penny and Leonard will remain "friends" and instead date others, but that likely will only stoke the fire 'tween them. "She might get a little jealous!" says the actress.Watch this video for more on Big Bang and Cuoco's take on the nerds.More Big Bang videos:• Johnny Galecki• Jim Parsons• Kunal Nayyar• Simon Helberg
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We're at the university. Leonard and Rejesh are strolling along, checking out an ad calling for volunteers for a study about anxiety, panic attacks and agoraphobia (look it up), and there's Howard staking out a hot woman -- in Sheldon's office? Our Sheldon? Obviously, she's lost, or issuing a summons, or whatever. We learn she's Sheldon, ahem, Shelly's twin sister.There isn't a lot of symbiosis between Missy and Shelly. She's tall and beautiful and kind of normal. He's tall, not and not. And she doesn't speak in scientific tongues. Wait, what's that sound? Oh, yes, the mating call of the 20-something physicist. Leonard, Howard and Rajesh convince Missy to stay at Shelly and Leonard's (she's off to a wedding tomorrow and a hot girl really shouldn't be traversing the freeways during rush hour). So let the games begin.Back at Chez Scientifica, Missy has got the guys mesmerized with stories about childhood (I would have loved to see a demonstration of how Sheldon transformed her Easy Ba...
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Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory
You may have forgotten, thanks to the seemingly endless WGA strike, but this is the "season of the nerd." And inarguably TV's dukes of dorkdom are Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki) on CBS' The Big Bang Theory (resuming its freshman season tonight at 8 pm/ET). Playing beauty to the geeks is Kaley Cuoco, with whom TVGuide.com chatted about the "new" season ahead.
TVGuide.com: First off, just to be clear, this is not the CBS sitcom guest-starring Britney Spears.Kaley Cuoco: No, it is not. That would be How I Met Your Mother.
TVGuide.com: But you know what you could do to totally trump them? Guest-cast Eliot Spitzer's girlfriend, "Kristen."Cuoco: Oh, you are bad! That’s very funny. I don’t know if anyone would go for that, but I'd sure think
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Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory
Question: Like you, I'm enjoying The Big Bang Theory and think Sheldon and the gang of nerds are a hoot. Penny, though, seems to be an unwelcome distraction. I haven't laughed at her even once — her scenes simply aren't funny. Sara Gilbert, on the other hand, is a riot. Do you think the show should (or would) get rid of Penny and focus on its strengths, the geeks? Last week's episode, which had Penny in nearly every scene, didn't make me laugh once. (Or am I just prejudiced against dumb blondes?)
Answer: Ouch. I appreciate where you're coming from, but I think you're selling Penny (and Kaley Cuoco) short. This show, which has developed in a short time into one of TV's best new comedies, has been likened to a reverse Three's Company in its two-geeks-and-a-girl setup, but Penny's not such a dim bulb as Chrissie. She is, in a sense, the show's "straight man," it's true, but I get a kick out of her withering responses to Sheldon's anal-retentive rudeness and Wolowitz's bumbling lechery. ...
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Question: I happened to see the pilot for CBS' The Big Bang Theory in Las Vegas last week, and I absolutely loved it. I have not laughed that much during a new sitcom pilot in a long time. Do you think this show has a chance to stick? I hope it lasts, because it is really funny.
Answer: The good news is that it's on the right network (CBS, which specializes in multi-camera laugh-track sitcoms), and with Two and a Half Men's Chuck Lorre behind it, CBS may be inclined to show some patience if it doesn't take off right away. But I don't see why it wouldn't. It's a classic ugly-duckling buddy sitcom about two geeky geniuses (Roseanne's Johnny Galecki and terrific new find Jim Parsons as, respectively, Leonard and Sheldon, an homage to legendary TV producer Sheldon Leonard) and the pretty young thing (8 Simple Rules' Kaley Cuoco) who moves in next door. The guys are funny, especially the deadpan fussbudget played by Parsons, and their nerdy friends in the supporting cast score laughs as
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As part of a recent TVGuide.com feature, 8 Simple Rules and Charmed alumna Kaley Cuoco had this to say about CBS' The Big Bang Theory sitcom:TVGuide.com: This was another role you had to fight for, right? They at first said you were too young?Kaley Cuoco: This pilot was up in the last pilot season. And when I went to the network [for casting approval], Chuck Lorre, who I love and he loves me, said, "We love you, but we think you're too young." So they cast somebody else, did the pilot, and then wanted to recast her and change the whole outlook on this character. So Chuck called me like a month or two ago and was like, "Kaley, come meet with me." Twenty minutes after [meeting with the network] Chuck called and said, "You've got the job."TVGuide.com: The premise is that two brilliant young physicists [Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons] are thrown for a loop by this hot chick?Cuoco: That's exactly what it is. I don't know if I'm hot, but I'm the crazy girl next door.TVGuide.com: But you are ...
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CBS on Monday began tipping its hand, ordering several new shows.On the drama front, there is Cane, starring NYPD Blue alum Jimmy Smits as the head of a Latin-American family in the rum biz; Moonlight (FKA Twilight), starring Alex O'Loughlin as a P.I. who is, by the way, a vampire; Viva Laughlin, a Hugh Jackman-produced import of a BBC series, concerning a family man who dreams of opening a casino in Laughlin, Nevada; and Swingtown, an Ice Storm-esque look at couples swapping partners in the '70s.The laffer bound for the Eye is The Big Bang Theory, starring Roseanne's Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons as science geeks who befriend a party girl, (8 Simple Rules' Kaley Cuoco). CBS presents its full schedule on Wednesday. — Matt Webb Mitovich
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lena Headey (The Brothers Grimm, The Cave) will pick up where Linda Hamilton left off and play the title character in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a Fox pilot set between the second and third Terminator films, and following 15-year-old John's tough-gal mom.... 8 Simple Rules' Kaley Cuoco, who, when she first auditioned for the role last spring, was deemed too young, fought the good fight and has landed the female lead in The Big Bang Theory, CBS' comedy pilot about genius physicists (Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons) whose lives are turned upside down by a woman (Cuoco).
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Kaley Cuoco and Caroline Rhea have been cast in Fat Like Me, a Lifetime movie based on the true story of a teen who, as part of a news exposé on obesity, goes undercover at a high school wearing plaid a fat suit. Rhea plays Cuoco's mom.... As reported in Tuesday's NCIS Feature, Once and Again alum Susanna Thompson's first airdate as Gibbs' new love interest has been pushed back to Nov. 7.... Political wavemaker Arianna Huffington wants your vote on which zinger ABC should use when she guests on Help Me Help You later this season. Go here to review the options.
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