For all that the Hollywood strikes have thrown the business into upheaval all through the again half of 2023, fairly a couple of totally completed high-profile initiatives are nonetheless on the horizon, reminiscent of prolific TV producer Chuck Lorre’s newest streaming present Bookie, which reteams him with Charlie Sheen a few years after Sheen’s Two and a Half Males exit. With Lorre now gearing up for his latest comedy, it’s solely pure that at the least as soon as dialog would flip to the subject of The Massive Bang Principle, particularly the spinoff undertaking that was formally introduced by Max in April 2023. And whereas he didn’t have any huge updates to share, we’ll make do with any port in a storm.
Whereas Younger Sheldon continues to be holding robust on CBS, with Season 7 probably its final, the Ian Armitage dramedy scratches a totally totally different TV itch from the broad and nerdy enjoyable on the coronary heart of Massive Bang Principle, which is an enormous cause why the fandom was pumped to listen to information of a 3rd entry within the franchise. It appears like endurance can be key, although, as Chuck Lorre instructed TVLine the undertaking continues to be within the incubation phases, saying:
It’s prenatal. Yeah, you don’t discuss in regards to the start till the second trimester, I imagine, is the rule. That’s a good distance of claiming no, I’ve acquired nothing to say about it apart from it’s one thing that we’re discussing.
To be clear, the undertaking he’s referring to in fully non-specific terminology was reported as being a part of the Massive Bang Principle universe, although with none ensures that any acquainted characters can be concerned. To that finish, Lorre and co-creator Invoice Prady have straight addressed the hard-to-imagine idea of a revival, which might be all however not possible to place collectively at this level given the ensemble’s busy schedules. And so the problem turns into discovering a method to concentrate on a special set of equally enjoyable and attention-grabbing characters inside this heightened actuality.
Sadly, Chuck Lorre doesn’t make it sound like they’ve cracked the nut, because it had been, to touchdown on a slam dunk method. However that doesn’t essentially imply something barely adverse, contemplating he’s been busy bringing Bookie to life with star Sebastian Maniscalco, which presumably hasn’t left a ton of spare time for brainstorming different initiatives. Now that his latest present can be debuting on the finish of the month, it might permit for extra Massive Bang theorizing, so right here’s hoping one other main replace is coming in early 2024.
Even when the brand new spinoff gained’t be a full-blown revival centered on Sheldon, Amy, Penny and the remainder of the gang, former co-star Melissa Rauch addressed a potential return to the function of Bernadette, as impressed by her expanded sitcom pedigree as a part of the Evening Courtroom continuation sequence. However in her thoughts, that may be one thing to contemplate a few years from now, and never a suggestion she’d settle for so quickly after the well-received sequence finale in 2019.
Take a look at Bookie with a Max subscription when it debuts on Thursday, November 30. Within the meantime, all episodes of The Massive Bang Principle and Younger Sheldon can be found to stream as properly.
