Comic-Con Roundtable with Bill Prady, Co-Creator of The Big Bang Theory: Part One

On Friday I arrived for my first San Diego Comic-Con and it turns out, thanks to all the people-watching and fun walking through the Exhibit Hall, I only made one event. I was part of the privileged club that got into the press conference for The Big Bang Theory. This was my first press room, and I had no idea what to expect. The experience ended up being rather surreal.

We all rushed in when the doors opened, and the video cameras and TV outlets jockeyed for position in the front row. Print media (aka me) went to three back tables, hoping to get our turn with someone. While the marquee stars of the show never made it to our table, we did get the huge honor of getting 20 whole minutes with Bill Prady, co-creator and executive producer for the show. The conversation was so fascinating and thrilling for someone like me who gravitates more toward the creative minds of a show than the actors that instead of giving highlights I ended up transcribing the entire interview.

Below is part one of that interview. I was a roundtable session where six of us were asking questions. Of course, I’ve pointed out below which questions were mine. In our conversation we learned about some upcoming storylines for season three, Bill’s huge love of Star Trek, and how Sheldon’s character would never work without the other members of the cast.

When will Leonard Nimoy be guesting on the show?

I don’t think that there are any plans for that. It would be lovely. I know he doesn’t do a lot of TV. He did that round on Fringe, I guess he got to be friends with JJ during the making of the Star Trek movie. I don’t know, I think if he actually showed up on the show our characters' heads would explode. It might be the end of everything.

So when do they start debating the merits of the new Star Trek vs. the old Star Trek?

Well this is the interesting thing because they missed Star Trek because they were up north. They were at the North Pole. So they can’t see it until Christmas time. In fact, I think, you know Sheldon starts to have a spoiler alert problem. The more time you go, it starts to be significant, and so I think we’ve been talking about addressing that but yes, they missed the movie.

The guys on the show have acknowledged the existence of Comic-Con. Would it be possible to do sort of a live Comic-Con episode here?

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