Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Paleyfest: The Big Bang Theory (via closed circuit)

broadcast live from Beverly Hills
Theater audience gets to submit questions too!
Paleyfest Survey for audience
Yes, we can use our smartphones during the show!
Pre-show Trivial Questions
Executive Producer Steven Molaro introduced a montage of special moments during the current season and a three scene preview of this Thursday's episode "The Closet Reconfiguration".
Singer/Actress (Abby from NCIS) Pauley Perrette was tonight's moderator
Simon Helberg (Howard Wolowitz) described how the gravity free scenes were done on the Space Station set.
Pauley Perrette direct a question to the show executive producers
The cast of TBBT on stage
Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper) says he doesn't know science but he does read the news!
Kaley Cuoco (Penny) shared how she got the cast to do a "Flash Mob".
Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) and Parsons describe their "spanking" scene. "She was game", said Parsons
The other cast members said that Kunal Nayyar, (Raj Koothrappali) often laughs at his own lines.

Nayyar and Helberg discussed some uncomfortable "Bromance" scenes.
Nayyar discussing what he liked about his character as cast member
Johnny Galecki, (Leonard Hofstadter) listens on.
The Cast
At one point the ladies in my theater audience gasp when Cuoco had a minor wardrobe malfunction.  
Ms Perrette did a great job of moderating the questions and directing the discussions.
Executive producers Molaro and Prady discussed some of the behind the scenes decisions.
  Prady shared that "Soft Kitty" came from a song from Prady daughter's nursery school in Sherman Oak
Co-creator and Executive Producer Chuck Lorre joking about missing out on the carpool to the panel tonight.
Writers on the show rise up in the audience to be acknowledged by the producers and cast.
Questions and Answers from the audience at the Saban Theater.
Bialik and Cuoco connected on a point
At the end of panel, the cast signed autographs for fans near the stage.
Link to The Hollywood Reporter coverage of BBT Paleyfest.

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