The highly anticipated Big Bang Theory spinoff is keeping its premise under wraps — but now we know that it will most definitely center on Kevin Sussman‘s luckless comic book store owner, Stuart Bloom.
As our sister site Deadline was first to report, the Max sequel series will be titled… Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. Sussman will reprise his titular role, opposite fellow franchise vets John Ross Bowie (Barry Kripke), Lauren Lapkus (Denise) and Brian Posehn (Bert).
As previously reported, feature writer Zak Penn (The Avengers, Ready Player One, Free Guy) will pen the pilot script with original series co-creators Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. The potential offshoot, which has not yet received a formal series order, would be the fourth entry in the TBBT universe — following The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019), prequel series Young Sheldon (2017-2024), and Young Sheldon spinoff Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage (2024-) — and the first made exclusively for a streaming service.
Though further details remain scarce, there’s reason to be excited. After all, when Lorre told TVLine in 2019 that a solid spinoff conceit failed to materialize before The Big Bang Theory wrapped production, he explained that “unless there was a creative reason to do it — a wonderfully, wonderfully creative reason to do it — than the only reason [to do it] is economics, and that’s not good enough.” That leads us to believe that the sitcom titan has a pretty spectacular idea up his sleeve — and now we have a title.
