'The Big Bang Theory' attracts the most TV viewers in Canada

No, it was not won an Emmy for best TV comedy, and it will never win Peabody and Human it as Prize.

The rough comedy about inadequate Singletons - Version fan boy friends - is now officially the most-watched program of the week in Canada, Bar None. More than American Idol Survivor more than more than Hockey Night in Canada.

Nearly 3.5 million viewers watch the last episode of this immortal exchange between introduced the not-as-dumb-as-it seems Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and not-as-sharp-as-you-think Sheldon (Jim Parsons) "TV not so. Read a book."

"And as a social misfit?" Sheldon was promoted to answer. "Now I know this is not my style."

The Big Bang Theory is a study in irony. This comes from Chuck Lorre, the same writer and producer who is in the headlines in the last two weeks, usually as undesirable reasons for its next show, Two and a Half Men

"I went through the range of comedy, going back to Rose Anne, where the stories were very small and intimate in my way of Grace Under Fire, the Dharma and Greg, where the story of a very large one has," Lorre said recently is at a meeting of TV critics, with his own theory about the unexpected success of the Big Bang theory. "I learned what I have rebelled

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