The Big Bang Theory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-28

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00:02:48 1 Production
00:08:35 1.1 Theme song
00:10:27 1.2 Actors' salaries
00:14:02 2 Cast and characters
00:21:13 2.1 Scientist cameos
00:22:24 3 Episodes
00:22:33 4 Recurring themes and elements
00:22:44 4.1 Science
00:24:40 4.2 Science fiction media
00:27:56 4.3 Leonard and Penny's relationship
00:30:45 4.4 Sheldon and Amy's relationship
00:34:55 4.5 Soft Kitty
00:35:34 4.6 Howard's mother
00:36:59 4.7 Apartment building elevator
00:37:40 4.8 Vanity cards
00:38:09 5 Reception
00:38:18 5.1 Critical reception
00:39:22 5.2 U.S. standard ratings
00:43:17 5.3 UK distribution and ratings
00:46:39 5.4 Canadian ratings
00:47:42 6 Broadcast
00:48:33 6.1 Syndication
00:49:45 6.2 Online media
00:50:33 7 Home media
00:51:16 8 Awards and nominations
00:52:54 9 Merchandise
00:53:40 10 Offshoots
00:53:49 10.1 Plagiarized series
00:55:37 10.2 Spin-off series



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The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers. The show premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007. The twelfth and final season, which will run through 2018–19, premiered on September 24, 2018, consisting of 24 episodes.The show originally centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both physicists at Caltech, who share an apartment; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's similarly geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. Over time, supporting characters have been promoted to starring roles including: physicist Leslie Winkle, neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, microbiologist Bernadette Rostenkowski, and Stuart Bloom, the cash-strapped owner of the comic book store the characters often visit.
The show is filmed in front of a live audience and is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions. The Big Bang Theory received mixed reviews from critics throughout its first season, but reception was more favorable in the second and third seasons. Later seasons saw a return to a lukewarm reception, with the show being criticized for a decline in comedic quality. Despite the mixed reviews, seven seasons of the show have ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings; ultimately reaching the no. 1 spot in its eleventh season. The show was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series from 2011 to 2014 and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series four times for Jim Parsons. It has so far won 7 Emmy Awards from 46 nominations. Parsons also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series in 2011. The series has so far won 56 awards from 216 nominations. It has also spawned a prequel series in 2017 based on Parsons' character, Sheldon Cooper, named Young Sheldon, which originally aired on CBS.