Jim Parsons is letting fans in on whether he foresees a Big Bang Theory reboot in his future.
“I can’t imagine,” Parsons, 52, exclusively told Us Weekly at the American Ballet Theatre 2025 Fall Gala. “Well, I could imagine, but no, I imagine no.”
Though it’s been over six years since the series ended in 2019, the Emmy award-winning actor said there are still “so many” special memories he has from working on the show.
“I remember our first season, after about seven or eight episodes, the writers went on strike and they told us we were going to go off. We wouldn’t be doing any more until it was over,” Parsons said. “And we were all so upset by it. And it certainly wasn’t the stereotypical, and rightfully to feel like, ‘Oh God, my job,’ it wasn’t that. It was that we were already so enjoying this show and really felt we had something, and it scared us and we thought that it could mean an early end to the series.”
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Parsons told Us that the situation ended up benefiting the series more than they could have imagined.
“It ended up working very much in our favor. More people got to watch us in reruns and [when] we came back to [it], it became a bigger thing, but we didn’t know that at the time,” Parsons said. “And I think back on that because like I said, seven episodes in or whatever it was, all of us knew in our hearts that we were part of something that could be, it was special, and it could be to go on and it felt like the, whatever you call it, the peculiarities of the business and the way it goes might be, could have derailed it, and it could have. We got very fortunate.”
In the sitcom, which spanned 12 seasons, Parsons played the brilliant and quirky physicist Sheldon Cooper. He starred alongside Kaley Cuoco, Mayim Bialik, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch and Kevin Sussman. The sitcom aired on CBS and received four Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series throughout the course of its run. Parsons won four Emmys for his role.
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Prior to the 2019 ending of The Big Bang Theory, a prequel series titled Young Sheldon debuted in 2017. Young Sheldon ended in May 2024, at which point the series’ timeline caught up with what was happening in the original show. Iain Armitage starred as the titular character in the prequel, alongside Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Montana Jordan, Raegan Revord, Annie Potts, Wyatt McClure, Matt Hobby and Emily Osment.
The third series in The Big Bang Theory universe, Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage, was released in October 2024 and stars Jordan, 22, and Osment, 33, as Georgie Cooper, Sheldon’s older brother, and his wife, Mandy McAllister, respectively.
The second episode of season 2 will air on Thursday, October 23, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. Past episodes are currently streaming on Paramount+.
Reporting by Nikaline McCarley.
