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Bill's Big Bang
Kennedy Elementary, Thompson
Middle School and Cranbrook Schools
graduate Bill Prady, 46, has been out
in Hollywood for some time now.
The Southfield native has been busy
building a career whose many credits
include stints as a Henson Associates
writer, writer-producer on ABC's
Dharma & Greg and co-executive pro-
ducer-writer on the WB's Gilmore Girls
(as part of a team that included his
former Southfield school chum Stan
Zimmerman).
Now, for the new fall TV season,
Prady is tackling a new project. He is
executive producer, with his partner
Chuck Lorre, of a new CBS comedy
called The Big Bang Theory.
Big Bang created by the Emmy
nominated Lorre (for his work as
co-creator and executive producer of
CBS's Two and a Half Men), is about
two brainiac best friends — Leonard
(Johnny Galecki, Roseanne) and
Sheldon (Jim Parsons, Judging Amy)
— who can tell you anything you
want to know about quantum physics.
But ask these guys about dealing with
everyday life and they're lost in the
cosmos.
They learn that scientific principles
don't always apply when they meet
their sexy new neighbor Penny (Kaley
Cuoco, 8 Simple Rules), a screenwriter/
waitress from the Midwest who also
happens to be newly single.
In its fall TV preview issue,
Entertainment Weekly notes that Prady
writes what he knows — though "the
former computer programmer has an
astrophysicist check his jargon!'
"My mother has always been dis-
tressed that I didn't finish college," the
Jewish exec producer told EW. "If you
can publish that an astrophysicist gave
me a solid B+ on the physics dialogue,
it would make her feel better!'
Emmy Award-winning director
James Burrows (Will & Grace) directed
Big Bang's pilot episode, which airs
on Sept. 24 during the show's regular
time slot, 8:30- 9 p.m. Mondays on
CBS. Li
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Also on ABC is the new series
Private Practice, a spin-off of the
hit doctor show Grey's Anatomy.
Practice, which premieres 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 26, features
former Grey star Kate Walsh
(Dr. Addison Montgomery) in the
lead role. Paul
Adelstein, 38, has
a major supporting
role as Dr. Cooper
Freedman, a pedia-
trician.
Adelstein
appeared as
Paul Adelstein
Freedman in a
couple episodes of
last season's Grey's Anatomy that
set up the new series and, before
that, co-starred on the TV series
Prison Break.
Adelstein, a Reform Jew, mar-
ried actress Liza Weil, 30, in a
Jewish ceremony last November.
She played Jewish character Paris
Gellar in The Gilmore Girls, which
ended its seven-year run on TV last
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home in Florida, is best known as a
Broadway performer. Back to You,
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airs 8 p.m. Wednesdays.
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