There’s no query about it, Chuck Lorre is an extremely profitable and well-renowned author, producer and creator. He’s the mastermind behind megahits like Two and a Half Males, The Huge Bang Concept and Mother, and now he has a brand new present on the 2025 TV schedule. So, when CinemaBlend bought the possibility to talk with the inventive crew behind this new Netflix sequence, Leanne, we requested what they’ve taken away from their time working with the tremendous producer.
Forward of Leanne’s premiere (you possibly can stream it with a Netflix subscription now), CinemaBlend’s Nick Venable sat down to talk with Lorre in addition to his fellow govt producers, Nick Bakay and Susan McMartin. He requested them what they’ve discovered from working with The Huge Bang Concept’s co–creator that they wouldn’t have discovered in any other case, and after some joking round – which you’ll be able to see above – and Lorre humously saying “cautious,” Bakay sincerely mentioned:
I used to despise breaking story. I discovered my worth elsewhere within the forest till I got here into Chuck’s affect and began to be taught that the extra you make it about what would truly occur, and one thing that’s actual and emotional, you possibly can belief the humorous will observe. And that modified me as a author, profoundly.
Nick Bakay has fairly the historical past with Lorre. He wrote right here and there on exhibits like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and King of Queens, and he penned the film Paul Blart: Mall Cop earlier than he began writing and producing with Lorre on Two and a Half Males in 2013. After that, he turned a frequent collaborator of his as he wrote and produced on Mother, The Kominsky Methodology, Younger Sheldon and extra earlier than Leanne, which simply premiered on Netflix’s 2025 schedule.
All these tasks are so totally different, too, so it feels like Nick Bakay bought to place this information to make use of in numerous other ways. Nonetheless, together with being nice sitcoms, all of them have a good dose of coronary heart to associate with the humor, and because the EP defined, figuring out the way to write one thing actual and emotional is important, as a result of the humorous will at all times observe.
Whereas he took a writing method, Susan McMartin’s takeaway was considerably extra private. She’s additionally a long-time collaborator of Lorre’s, as she’s labored on Two and a Half Males and Mother as a author and consulting producer. Each these have been very long-running exhibits, and that sustained success gave McMartin, who co-created Leanne with Lorre, a safety she’s eternally grateful for, as she defined:
I’ll take away the truth that I used to be capable of put my daughter by way of school due to Chuck. I typically inform Chuck [thank you]. As a result of I used to be a single mother, and earlier than I bought on Two and a Half Males, the telephone had stopped ringing, and I used to be dragging used clothes to love, Crossroads Buying and selling Firm to place fuel within the automotive and meals on the desk, and it was bleak. Then I bought on Two and a Half Males and began saving, and my daughter was little, so when she went to school, I am like, ‘Thanks. Chuck Lorre.’
The success of Lorre’s exhibits can’t be underestimated. Simply take into consideration the truth that together with 279 episodes of The Huge Bang Concept, he created one other wickedly profitable present by spinning it off with Younger Sheldon, which then impressed one other profitable spinoff, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, which is able to proceed on CBS’s fall lineup this season. And that’s only one instance. Mother additionally had over 100 episodes. In the meantime, as these have been working, he additionally labored on sequence like The Kominsky Methodology, Bob Hearts Abishola and extra.
That form of success was capable of present job safety and alternatives for many individuals, McMartin included. So, I see why she informed us this once we requested about working with Lorre.
Now, let’s hope that Leanne can see the form of success these different sequence have discovered over time.
The sitcom stars Leanne Morgan and Kristen Johnston, and it follows Morgan’s titular Leanne after her husband of 33 years left her. Like the opposite comedies these three have labored on, Leanne looks as if it is hilarious and stuffed with coronary heart, which speaks proper to the factors each of those producers and writers made.