When a sitcom is the biggest comedy on television, you expect drama to stay on screen. But in 2014, the real cliffhanger on The Big Bang Theory wasn’t “Will Shamy work out?”—it was “Will the show even come back?”
Just days before Season 8 was supposed to start production, the stage went dark.
What followed has since been compared to a Friends-style revolt and described in industry coverage as “hardball bargaining”—five leads effectively acting as a unit and pushing CBS and Warner Bros.
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