Why The Big Bang Theory’s Original Pilot Gave Penny A Different Name

The “The Big Bang Theory” was a profitable privilege for CBS, after she was born 12 seasons and two cross shows (“Young Sheldon”, “Georgie and Mandy First Marriage”) in this process. But as with most of the success stories of cable TV, its fate lies in receiving the experimental episode. You need a good hook that can grow viewers with the desire to spend time laughing with these characters every week. The creators of the creators Chuck Lori and Bill Brady had some correct elements in his place of the first pilot in the show, but there was no “theory of the Big Bang theory” that would have collected her legacy if it was broadcast.

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There were a number of strange options in this non -trained pilot, as developed by Nina Starner, which indicates a completely different type of comic play that ended. Among the most prominent changes in female lead. Before the Kaley Cuoco on board like Penny, the actress in the Sweet Middle West from all over the hall, this role was initially tested with Amanda Walsh in the role of Katie, a cosmetic seller that is not available with a naive edge.

Problems lie less with performance and wallet, which can work if it works from within the comic play with more than that, but the character itself. Katie’s cover caused the test audience only to the innocence of Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galica), but she killed great interest in the prospects of the show.

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What is more strange in the personality of Walsh was that Katie was, enough enough, originally called Benny, but the highest in CBS objected.

In an excerpt from the Tell-ALL book, “The Big Bang Theory: The Indigive Story of the Epic Hit Series”, author Jessica Radlock reveals that Benny was always choosing the first name for female leadership until CBS told him that he would be a struggle for attention (via Hollywood Reporter):

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“The name of the character was originally Benny (” “Sheldon and Leonard faced this woman on the street; she is fortunate,” Brady explains), but at that time, CBS had another pilot in competition with a character called Benny and Lor and Prady asked to change him to something else. They were committed. Even with a new name, Katie’s character was nothing of horses.

After some drilling, I could not identify any CBS pilot to which he was referring to this name, which ultimately appears in the series a greater cultural effect.

It is not truly fair to judge someone based on his name, but in the context of the non -trained “Big Bang” pilot, Bennie is not perfectly commensurate with this character as it is written beyond the Brady garbage joke. Katie fits more conveniently showing performance wald. However, Beni is more suitable for Cuoco, which makes the Bubblier character of general kindness. No wonder the name was changed again when the character was dramatically rewritten to the pilot who made it broadcast.

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Sheldon said “Katie” when she does not have the same way as the same ring. There is an alternative world in which Walsh has a second chance to play Benny as a more light -headed way that Cuoco launched to stardom, but this is the unfair nature of Hollywood. Fortunately, Walsh has no difficult feelings about experience.

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