"I thought we had a unique character," Lorre said. "Why wouldn’t you protect it?” The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre is opening up about why he resisted giving Jim Parsons’ Sheldon a love interest for so long.

Chuck Lorre has started off the podcast confessions with a bang. “The Big Bang Theory” co-creator, 72, revealed a regret of his when it came to Kaley Cuoco’s character Penny on the series, which ran from 2007 to 2019 on CBS.

The Big Bang Theory may be defying the laws of TV mechanics with its storied success, but there’s one thing co-creator Chuck Lorre said the series “missed” early on with regard to Kaley Cuoco’s character Penny.