Whereas the Huge Bang Concept franchise continues to have a foothold on community tv due to the Younger Sheldon spinoff Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage on CBS (which will also be watched with a Paramount+ subscription), it’s additionally gearing as much as ship the delightfully kooky-sounding, CGI-packed Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. This present that can solely stream on HBO Max is bringing again a handful of supporting TBBT characters to take middle stage, and now two extra alums from the favored sitcom have come aboard. Nonetheless, this time round, these actors won’t be taking part in the identical characters as earlier than.
When you’re a longtime fan of The Huge Bang Concept, it’s possible you’ll recall Kevin Can Wait’s Ryan Cartwright and Silicon Valley’s Josh Brener making visitor appearances. The previous appeared in a Season 6 episode as Penny’s neighborhood faculty classmate, and the latter appeared in two episodes throughout Seasons 5 and 6 as Dale, who labored at Stuart’s comedian e book retailer. Properly, for Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, Cartwright will as a substitute play Kyle, who’s reportedly a comic book e book nerd and common buyer of the comedian e book retailer run by Kevin Sussman’s Stuart. Brener is reportedly taking part in somebody named Trevor, however no particulars about him had been revealed.
Moreover, Deadline has heard that Tommy Walker from the Nickelodeon collection Hazard Drive will seem in Stuart Fails to Save the Universe as Gary, the “good-looking” boyfriend of Lauren Lapkus’ Denise. Though Walker by no means appeared on The Huge Bang Concept or any of the opposite spinoffs, he did cross paths with creator Chuck Lorre when he visitor starred on the Netflix collection The Kominsky Technique. Cartwright, Brener and Walker will all recur on Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, whereas Sussman and Lapkus are joined in the principle forged by Brian Posehn and John Ross Bowie, who’re respectively reprising Bert and Barry Kripke.
It was first reported in 2023 that one other Huge Bang Concept offshoot was within the works, and by March 2025, the collection’ title was unveiled. Then final month, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe formally scored a collection order, and we discovered that it’ll observe Begin making an attempt to repair the universe after damaging it with a tool created by Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper. This may set off what’s described as a “multiverse armageddon,” and it’s been teased that this may pave the way in which for alternate variations of TBBT characters to look.
In Ryan Cartwright, Josh Brener and Tommy Walker’s case, nonetheless, they’re now again within the franchise to play completely different roles, so we’ll have to attend and see how they mesh with these fan-favorites. It hasn’t been introduced but when Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which Chuck Lorre co-created with The Avengers’ Zak Penn, shall be launched, however you’re at all times welcome to revisit The Huge Bang Concept correct on HBO Max whereas we await that data and extra updates.