.44 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. 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