The Big Bang Theory is an American comedy series created and executive produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. The pilot was directed by James Burrows.
Produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions, the series was greenlit and given a thirteen-episode order on May 14 2007. It premiered on September 24 2007 on CBS. The show is also broadcast in Canada on A-Channel, in India on Zee Cafe, and in Latin America on Warner Channel. It is also broadcasting in the United Kingdom, where it premiered on February 14, 2008 on Channel 4. It will be broadcasting in Australia on the Nine Network. .
The series is about two socially inept prodigies in their 20s who are living across the hall from a beautiful girl with a questionable intellect. When one genius falls for the girl, the other tries to discourage his interest because he believes his friend is chasing a dream he'll never catch.
On October 19 2007 the show was picked-up for a full 22 episode season, the first comedy of the 2007/08 season.
Production on the show was halted on November 6, 2007 due to the writers' strike of late 2007.
On February 14, 2008, CBS officially picked up The Big Bang Theory for a second season along with eleven other shows for the 2008-2009 television season
CBS has announced that the show will return March 17, 2008 with 9 episodes. However, it will move to its new timeslot at 8/7c, switching timeslots with How I Met Your Mother.
eldon: You have about as much chance of going out with Penny as the Hubble Telescope has of finding that at the center of each black hole there's a little man with a flashlight trying to find the circuit breaker.
eldon: Oh Gravity, thou art a heartless bitch
onard: I just know that moving all day can be stressful and I just thought that good neighbors and some Indian food might be just what you need... plus, curry is a natural laxative and I don't need to tell you that a clean colon is one less thing to worry about.
eldon: Oh, well, this would be one of those circumstances that people unfamiliar with the law of large numbers would call a coincidence.
onard: [discussing Sheldon's work] At least I didn't have to invent 26 dimensions to get the math to work. eldon: I didn't invent them. They're there. onard: Yeah? In what universe? eldon: In all of them, that's the point!
onard: Why did you just flash freeze a banana? slie: I'm having it with my cereal and I couldn't find a knife.
