It seems to me that Chuck Lorre is making so many millions of dollars for each episode that it is just very difficult to maintain that creative spark that helped him launch this show some 9 years ago? This show is now in its tenth season and I sure do feel that is just too long.
Remember what happened to The Office in its final few years? It was a big mess and disaster.
Talking about the plot for BBT, where can it go from here? They did boy meets girl and then boy and girl get together. Where can they go now? It’s sad to say, but it sure does seem that this show has run its course and has now run out of gas.
It was real good while it was young. But it seems to have developed some form of Alzheimer’s or something similar now. Time to say goodbye and put it out of its misery.
Charlie, they haven’t taped any season 8,9, or 10 episodes. They haven’t even written any season 9 or 10 episodes. They probably haven’t even written all the episodes for season 8 yet. All they have there on IMDB are placeholders for seasons 8,9 and 10.
That link lists years until 2016, probably because the show itself was given an extension and the contract runs that long.
You’re also confusing seasons and calendar years. A normal network television season starts in October and goes past January, putting it into two calendar years. Season 1 took place in 2007 and 2008. Seven seasons take place in eight calendar years. Season eight will be 2014-2015 and season nine in 2015-2016, but no episodes for those yet exist.
Aha! I see. Thanks for explaining that. I just saw it list Season 10 and figured they would know.
In a way, I’m kind of glad. Given the quality of the recent season(s), IMHO, they sure do not deserve to create any new episodes unless or until they can “fix” the quality of this show.
I have a very strong feeling that no matter how professional any showrunner may be, if they continue to be paid millions of dollars and they continue to be paid more and more all the time, there comes a time when they will nolonber be able to find the energy to create any new product that is good.
It certainly does seem to be the case with this show. It is enough to make me want to have a cry. I remember a time when people took great pride in their work - even if that was a TV show. That certainly seems to have now gone by the wayside. Such a shame.
Silenus! That is a great idea. The result could be a most EXCELLENT show.
The producers would have a chance to get rid of a lot of the dead weight and Sheldon dealing with customers who cannot ever understand what he is saying could be truly hilarious.
It may not seem like much of a big idea, but whoever originally thought of this deserves a big round of applause.
If it was you, I certainly take my hat off to you.
P.S. I would def get rid of Raj and some of the “creepier” chars - like that fellow with the speech impediment. I would keep Leonard and Penny. I think the other choices would be pretty clear. I just wonder if they would ever have the courage to try that.
P.S. I would want to get rid of him - not because of the speech impediment - but because he is just so “creepy”. If the writers were able to have his speech impediment corrected somehow, I would be happy to keep him in the cast. Although, maybe give him an improvement in his basic personality?
I’ve given up on the show, due to poor writing. Howevever, I would love for the studio to say “not prepared to show up, say some lines and get paid $350,000 an epsode to do it? Fine, you’re fired, we’ll get a decent actor who who looks a bit like you, pay him 10 grand an episode, call him “Leonard” on screen and act as though nothing is amiss. Kaley, Jim do you have anything you want to say?”
They’ve done that a few times. (For example, on Three’s Company, Suzanne Somers was replaced by another actress in the “dumb blonde” role.) In this case, though, the entire main cast is seeking more money. And Jim Parsons in particular has won three Emmy Awards for his performance. Do you really think he’s going to be easy to replace?
How long do you think it would take Jim Parsons to stop asking for more money, if Jonny Galeki was fired in the manner I suggested, with the extra “do you have anything to say, Jim?” My guess is not long.
I’m sure the show would get along fine without Jim Parsons.
I don’t mean to pick on Galeki in particular, It could be any of the three in my hypothetical.
Bullllllshit. If the producers did something like that, the entire cast would walk. They are all millionaires already. They don’t need to put up with that kind of shit from asshole producers. The ratings would tank with record-setting speed as the news broke and the viewers boycotted every show the producers make/will make/even think of making. At that point the network, seeing their cash cow getting slaughtered, would bounce the production company off the lot with extreme prejudice, the producer’s wife and mistress would leave him and sue his ass off, and every other show out there would get into a bidding war for Parsons, Galecki et al’s services.
As I said upthread, the show is currently getting twenty million viewers an episode. Nothing else does as well. Would it continue to get those kinds of numbers with another actor in the role? It doesn’t help that they’ve already renewed the show for three more seasons. So they can’t even threaten to just cancel the dammed thing.
Fans would riot and the ratings would plummet. The cast holds all the cards in this discussion. They might quibble over the details, but they’ll all get paid.
Parsons and Galeki don’t make that kind of money because they are such amazing actors that they are intrinsically worth that much. They make it because they happened to be cast on a show that made megabucks. It’s the show’s success that made them, not the other way around. Not that they’re bad or anything, but there would not be a massive stampede of people offering to equal or better their current salary.
There wouldn’t have to be. See my previous about “already millionaires many times over.” The thing would be to screw over the producers, which would happen instantly should they do as you propose. Which is a moot point, because Lorre and Prady aren’t idiots.