Worst Choice, Best Lead: The Reluctant Hero Steering The Big Bang Spin-Off
Deadline reports that Chuck Lorre chose Kevin Sussman’s Stuart Bloom—the Big Bang Theory’s most unlikely hero—as the lead of the new spin-off Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, joking that Bloom was “the absolute worst choice” for a hero, which Lorre says makes him the perfect lead. Sussman says leading a spin-off wasn’t in his plans, but he’s on board. The series follows Stuart stopping a multiverse armageddon and teaming with friends Bert, Denise, and Kripke across alternate universes, premiering on HBO Max this Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.
