Well I watched it but am a bit confused. It said brand new series, yet the two they showed, I saw a month or two back. 
Extremely good episodes, which means the show's in fine health, but how can it be brand new if it's already aired? These E channels do confuse me a bit because I don't know if I'm watching the latest stuff or just repeats. Am I to take it then that last night's TBBT night was first showed on C4 a month or two back and that's what I saw then?
Anyway, apart from the two great new or not new episodes, I thought the short inside look at the making of it was very so-so. The technical bits were interesting, like the making of the sets and the last minute rewrites, but there was nowhere near enough depth in them. The interviews were okay, a bit choppy again with not enough depth. It was all a bit cursory, like a Hello magazine article, I felt. Fans of the show want a bit more than that, surely.
Chuck Lorre, is it, was also a bit unforthcoming, unless it's E4's fault for editing him right down. You felt he had a lot to tell but somehow didn't get to or want to say it. What he did say seemed a little on the smug and not quite true side to me, claiming it was based on co-creator Prady's time spent working with a bunch of computer nerds with poor life skills. As if he's the one who discovered the connection!
Nerds and their ways have been known about for centuries! That was a bit rich I thought, and no mention of the many previous films depicting hapless technonerds, or indeed the British sitcom which went to air at least a year before they did. Or of the reason he chose scientists instead of ITists. I assume now it was to distance themselves from any reference to C4's earlier technonerd sitcom. These American producers are way too corporate minded for my liking, and he was very typical of their sort.
And I still don't how it's written, by him and Prady or by a team, which is what I was most interested in. They hardly touched on scripts at all, which is the show's great strength. 
A missed opportunity, but not sure how much was denied by secretive studio bosses!
Talk of 'lazy writing' and losing its edge etc. just do not make any sense to me. But then I do not know which order I'm watching these in, as I pressed the info button the other day and it said an episode from series 2. Then a week later I watched one and it said the 100th episode is coming up. So I don't know what's going on there unless I'm watching it on different channels without realising it - quite possible!
