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The Big Bang Theory stars Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik bid farewell Thursday after 12 years on the air together. The stars posted some emotional photos and clips of their final bow. See a sampling below. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxhg_Adlneh/" style=" background:#FFFFFF…

UPDATED with video: The journalists at CBS This Morning asked the cast of the network's The Big Bang Theory all the predictable questions Thursday morning, before the long-running series’ finale. Clever Stephen Colbert got the cast to anonymously write better ones for him to ask in their interview on The Late…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of The Big Bang Theory series finale that aired tonight. In the end, The Big Bang Theory took the prize with a series finale that delivered satisfying surprises for all of the core characters but kept hold of the show’s taut pace, tart zingers and deadpan irony despite all…

The end is nigh for The Big Bang Theory, and now we know exactly when. CBS said today that the sitcom will wrap its 12-season run with an hourlong series finale at 8 PM Thursday, May 16. Check below for the rest of CBS’ 2018-19 season finales. Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Mayim Bialik, Melissa Rauch…

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of Special, a comedy series based on Ryan O’Connell’s part-memoir, part-manifesto I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves. Starring, written by and executive produced by O’Connell, it hails from Jim Parson’s That’s Wonderful Productions and Warner Bros’ Digital Networks’ Stage…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has landed the Jim Parsons star vehicle Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies in a competitive situation, and The Big Sick‘s Michael Showalter is set to direct and produce, with David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage writing the screenplay. The movie is based on the acclaimed, bestselling memoir by Michae…

Joe Mantello’s recent Broadway staging of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band will be eligible for a 2019 Tony Award – no surprise there – but theater trivia buffs might quibble with the category: Best Revival of a Play. Although the gay groundbreaker has been staged many times since its Off Broadway debut in 1968, The…

The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons had long been interested in mining his growing up in Texas for a comedy series. A couple of years ago, his idea morphed into Young Sheldon, a spinoff from Big Bang about the Texas childhood of Parsons’ character Sheldon Cooper. Now Parsons has sold another comedy inspired by his…

NBC has put in development The Inn Crowd, a multi-camera comedy from Young & Hungry creator David Holden, Jim Parsons and Todd Spiewak's That's Wonderful Productions and Warner Bros. TV where the company is based. Written by Holden, The Inn Crowd is inspired by Tony Horwitz's 1999 New Yorker article and centers around…

Keeping in the spirit of Young Sheldon TV universe,  Chuck Lorre has enrolled Young Sheldon executive producers Steven Molaro and Jim Parsons, Warner Bros. Television Group and CBS to create a new grant program appropriately called The Young Sheldon STEM Initiative. The cast of Young Sheldon made the announcement in…

A day after word came that the upcoming 12th season would be the last for CBS’ top-rated comedy series The Big Bang Theory, star Jim Parsons took to Instagram to pen a lengthy ‘thank you’ to fans, his fellow cast members, crew and writers. Parsons posted his note with a photo of himself and his fellow cast members…

It was a typical morning for everyone working on The Big Bang Theory on Wednesday until the entire cast was summoned to co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre’s office after the table read with no advance notice and no agenda. Many people on the show felt it might have been a meeting to discuss a possible 13th…