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Max today announced that their and executive producer Chuck Lorre are developing a new comedy series derived from The Big Bang Theory. The project is in the works at Warner Bros. Television, where Lorre is under an overall deal.
Plot details are currently under wraps. Lorre will executive produce via Chuck Lorre Productions. The new show would be the second collaboration between Max, Lorre, and WBTV. Lorre and Nick Bakay are currently in production on the new Max Original comedy series How to Be a Bookie, starring Sebastian Maniscalco. This marks the second series derived from the world of The Big Bang Theory, following the prequel Young Sheldon, is in its sixth season on CBS.
The Big Bang Theory debuted in 2007 and was the number one comedy in the world when it concluded its successful 12-season run in 2019 as the longest-running multi-camera series in television history, with 279 episodes. The series won ten Emmy Awards and received 55 Emmy nominations, and won a Critics Choice TV Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and The Humanitas Prize.
All episodes of The Big Bang Theory and the first five seasons of Young Sheldon are available to stream on Max in the U.S.
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