Whether you wanted it or not, “The Big Bang Theory” will soon have a second spinoff series.
Chuck Lorre is the executive producer of a new comedy series being created by Warner Bros. Discovery for the Max streaming service, which is based on The Big Bang Theory. The new show would be The Big Bang Theory’s second spinoff after the wildly successful Young Sheldon. Is anyone, however, truly requesting a new season of The Big Bang Theory? There doesn’t seem to be a huge demand for a new show. There are no protesters conducting a “rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock” sit-in in the CBS lobby until their demands are granted. There aren’t a tonne of admirers pouring emails into Lorre’s inbox in an effort to get one made, either. Who is promoting a new The Big Bang Theory Show, then?
We are, though in a somewhat indirect way, the quick response. From Season 6 onward, The Big Bang Theory typically attracted over 18 million viewers per episode. Only 23.44 million people watched the series finale, which marked the end of the longest-running multi-camera sitcom in US television history. Young Sheldon’s fifth season averaged over 7 million viewers, which was significantly less than what its parent series was attracting but still high enough to earn it CBS’s top scripted program. These viewership figures are already impossible to ignore, but when you factor in the $125 million to $150 million in ad money plus the $1 billion in syndication revenue that The Big Bang Theory was bringing in, a new spinoff that even comes close to matching those numbers would be difficult to ignore.
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A The Big Bang Theory Spinoff Series Has Nowhere To Go But Up
Directly speaking, though, no one is requesting a new spinoff series of The Big Bang Theory since there is nowhere for one to go. Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) received the Nobel Prize for their work, Penny’s pregnancy was revealed to be untrue, Sheldon openly acknowledged the importance of his friends in his life, and the series ended with the cast gathered together as we had seen them so often before. a fixed lift, too. In all honesty, it was an almost flawless conclusion that came at the ideal time.
The ‘geek gets lady’ basis of the show was long gone, the characters, notably Sheldon, had grown out of their nerdy ignorance, and the storylines were becoming increasingly weak. It would be exceedingly challenging to successfully launch a spinoff that looked beyond that instant. If Friends is the show that most closely resembles The Big Bang Theory, then any future spinoff attempts will focus more on Joey and less on Frasier. Although the characters function as a unit, they are simply not compelling enough to support a series on their own.
Young Sheldon only succeeds as a spinoff due to how different it is from its parent show: it is shot using a single camera, the storylines are more realistic (as realistic as a show with a child genius can be), and its humor comes from character interactions rather than slapstick and nerd culture references. With some substantial dramatic components that fill in Sheldon’s past, it departs from The Big Bang Theory even more as time goes on. Young Sheldon as a spinoff series truly falls short in that regard. Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is a comic legend because of his eccentricities, ignorance, and interpersonal issues, especially in his relationship with Penny.
Young Sheldon lessens the impact of the comedic components of Parsons’ Sheldon by explaining the origins of his various eccentricities and making Sheldon (Iain Armitage) into a more sorrowful figure. Nevertheless, Sheldon is likely the only member of the cast whose past would be intriguing to learn about in a prequel style. Furthermore, any further attempts to create a prequel-style spinoff would only be compared to Young Sheldon at this point.
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The Big Bang Theory Spinoff Could Take a Cue From Another Classic Sitcom
To be fair, nobody really clamored for Young Sheldon, and that has worked out rather nicely. If Lorre is truly pushing forward with a potential Big Bang Theory spinoff, he may want to learn from Netflix’s That ’90s Show, a recent success story with ties to a classic comedy. The That ’70s Show spinoff treads a tight line between paying homage to its past—with cameos from members of the original cast and ‘the circle’—and establishing a completely new cast of characters—the offspring of the original characters—for fans to identify with. Chuck Lorre might want to go on that path, which could be interesting.
It would be an opportunity to catch up with where the original characters are in their lives, determine which of Penny and Leonard’s (Johnny Galecki) kids has the nerd gene and which does not, and incorporate trends that have emerged since The Big Bang Theory ended, such as TikTok and the Disney+ MCU and Star Wars series of shows.
The lesson here is that even though no one may be requesting a second spinoff series of The Big Bang Theory, there will be one. It is pure conjecture and a story for another time to speculate on how that series will appear. The success or failure of that series depends on viewers and existing and potential fans of the original program. Any other attempts to spin off The Big Bang Theory are likely to fail if it doesn’t succeed.
The likelihood of a third spinoff series grows dramatically if it is successful. Ironically, formulating a hypothesis regarding the nature of the show and the extent of its success sounds just like the kind of experiment that would have captivated Leonard, Sheldon, Raj (Kunal Nayyar), and Howard (Simon Helberg) on CBS during the show’s prime for a solid half-hour.
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