Just one day after Netflix secured the streaming rights to Seinfeld in a deal reportedly worth more than $500 million, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max has gone one step further, acquiring the rights to The Big Bang Theory in a deal reportedly worth more than $1 billion.
The deal gives WarnerMedia’s HBO Max the exclusive domestic streaming rights for five years, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That means another streaming service could carry the show in global markets. The deal also extends the syndication deal between Warner Bros. Television and TBS through 2028.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Mykl on Thursday September 19 2019, @12:36AM
Fair enough.
FWIW, I see the jokes as more of a roast of Nerd Culture than denigrating nerds.
I seem to recall that Chuck Lorre created TBBT as a passion project, and was only given the green light to write a Sitcom about nerds because of his success with Two and a Half Men (I suspect that TBBT was also an attempt to wash the taste of Two and a Half Men out of his mouth).