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The only main characters retained in both pilots were Leonard ( Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon ( Jim Parsons), who are named after Sheldon Leonard, a longtime figure in episodic television as producer, director and actor.

The structure of the original unaired pilot was different from the series' current form. A different pilot was produced for the 2006–07 television season but never aired. This was the second pilot produced for the show. The show's pilot episode premiered on September 24, 2007.

Bigbang debut series#

In 2017, the series spawned a prequel series, Young Sheldon, based on Parsons' character Sheldon Cooper it also airs on CBS. Parsons also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Comedy Series in 2011. In total, it won seven Emmy Awards from 46 nominations. It 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 Parsons. Despite early mixed reviews, seven seasons were ranked within the top ten of the final season ratings, and it ultimately reached the no. It received mixed reviews throughout its first season, but reception was more favorable in the second and third seasons. The show was filmed in front of a live audience and produced by Chuck Lorre Productions and Warner Bros. Over time, supporting characters were promoted to starring roles, including neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler ( Mayim Bialik), microbiologist Bernadette Rostenkowski ( Melissa Rauch), and comic book store owner Stuart Bloom ( Kevin Sussman).

The show originally centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter ( Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper ( Jim Parsons), both physicists at Caltech, who share an apartment Penny ( Kaley Cuoco), 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 ( Simon Helberg) and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali ( Kunal Nayyar). It premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007, and concluded on May 16, 2019, having broadcast 279 episodes over 12 seasons. The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro, all of whom also served as head writers.