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The Big Bang Theory Season 5

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Set in Pasadena, California, the show is centered on five characters: two room-mate geniuses who work on the California Institute of Technology, experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter and theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper; their neighbor over the hall Penny, a blonde waitress and aspiring actress; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward co-workers and friends Howard Wolowitz, an aerospace engineer and a non-PhD from JPL, and Rajesh Koothrappali, an astrophysicist also working at Caltech. The geekiness and intellect from the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and good sense.Three other supporting characters have also been promoted to main cast status for some episodes: Leslie Winkle, a Caltech colleague and, at different times, a follower of both Leonard and Howard; Bernadette Rostenkowski, a doctoral candidate (later doctor) in microbiology, part-time waitress alongside Penny, and Howard's love interest; and Amy Farrah Fowler, a neurobiologist who is very similar to Sheldon, and who later becomes good friends with Penny.
The Big Bang Theory Season 5

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The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions.In August 2009, the sitcom won the best comedy series TCA award and Jim Parsons won the award for individual achievement in comedy.In 2010, the show won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy, while Parsons won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor inside a Comedy Series. On January 16, 2011, Parsons was awarded a Golden Globe by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical, an award which was presented by co-star Kaley Cuoco. On September 18, 2011, Parsons was awarded an Emmy Award for the best Actor inside a Comedy Series.
When the third season premiered on September 21, 2009, it ranked as CBS's highest-rated show of this evening within the adults 18-49 demographic (4.6/10), along with a then series-high 12.83 million viewers.On May 19, 2010, it had been announced that CBS could be moving the show to Thursdays at 8:00 ET for that 2010-2011 schedule. On January 12, 2011, CBS announced the show had been renewed for the next three years, extending it with the 2013-2014 season.The fifth season premiered on September 22 in its usual time slot with two back-to-back episodes

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The show's initial pilot, produced for the 2006-07 television season, was substantially not the same as its current form. The only characters in the initial pilot which were kept for the reshot pilot and series were Leonard and Sheldon (portrayed by Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons respectively). The cast was rounded off by two female leads: Amanda Walsh as Katie, "a street-hardened, tough-as-nails woman having a vulnerable interior" who the boys meet after she breaks track of her boyfriend and invite to live in their apartment (Katie was effectively replaced by Penny within the second pilot);and Iris Bahr as Gilda, a scientist colleague and friend from the boys who was threatened by Katie's presence. The initial pilot used Thomas Dolby's hit "She Blinded Me With Science" as theme music.

The series was not picked up, however the creators received an opportunity to retool the show and produce a second pilot. They brought in the remaining cast and retooled the show to its final format. The initial unaired pilot hasn't been officially released, but it has circulated on the web. About the evolution of the show, Lorre said "We did the 'Big Bang Pilot' about two and a half years ago, and it sucked... but there have been two remarkable things that worked perfectly, which was Johnny and Jim. We rewrote the thing entirely, and then we were blessed with Kaley and Simon and Kunal." Whether the planet is ever going to see that original pilot, maybe on the DVD, Lorre said "Wow that would be something, we will have. Show your failures..."



The second pilot of The Big Bang Theory was directed by James Burrows, who did not continue with the show. This reworked pilot led to a 13-episode order by CBS on May 14, 2007. Prior to its airing on CBS, the pilot episode was distributed on iTunes free of charge. The show premiered September 24, 2007, and was picked-up for a full 22-episode season on October 19, 2007. However, production was halted on November 6, 2007 due to the Writers Guild of America strike. The series returned on March 17, 2008 in an earlier time slot[18] and ultimately only 17 episodes were produced.After the strike ended, the show was picked up for a second season airing in the 2008–2009 season, premiering in the same time slot on September 22, 2008.With increasing ratings, the show received a two-year renewal through the 2010–11 season.Since then, the show has been picked up for three more seasons.
David Saltzberg, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, checks scripts and provides dialogue, math equations, and diagrams used as props.According to executive producer/co-creator Bill Prady, "We're working on giving Sheldon an actual problem that he's going to be working on throughout the [first] season so there's actual progress to the boards ... We worked hard to get all the science right."Several of the actors in The Big Bang Theory worked together previously on Roseanne including Johnny Galecki, Sara Gilbert, and Laurie Metcalf (who plays Sheldon's mother, Mary Cooper). Additionally, Lorre was a writer on the series for several seasons.


Single cover for "Big Bang Theory Theme" by Barenaked Ladies (2007)
Barenaked Ladies wrote and recorded the show's theme song, which describes the history of the universe and the Earth since the dawn of time (according to the eponymous theory). Ed Robertson, a lead singer and guitarist in the band, was asked by Lorre and Prady to write a theme song for the show. Having been asked to write songs for other films and shows only to have them rejected in favor of another artist's, Robertson agreed to write a theme only after learning that he was the sole writer that Lorre and Prady had asked. He drew inspiration from Simon Singh's book, Big Bang, which he had just finished reading. On October 9, 2007, a full-length (1 minute and 45 seconds) version of the song was released commercially.

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