End of The Big Bang Theory sparked debate on the future of television comedies

In 2006, television critics had cracked for over 30 Rocks, part of a new generation of comedies that dared to fly without laughing and which featured notably in Arrested Development, The Office and Everyone Hates Chris.

Then an unsuitable nerd crashed at the party. The Big Bang Theory was designed in the pioneering style of the 1950s, I Love Lucy, with the necessary recordings of studio audiences and the recording of intact guffaws. Even some of the actors in the CBS comedy that debuted in 2007 have questioned his chances, said Jim Parsons, starring Sheldon Cooper, one of the brilliant and socially incompetent scientists in the series.

"We are making the last big buggy wagon in the series." the age of the T model, but the T model is here. So, how long does it last? ", Wrote Parsons in a recent interview

While a writer described the contrast between 21st century TV comedies and the old school,

While the popular series is preparing to pull out Thursday with an hour delay. Long final, the question is again raised: the viewers, overwhelmed by players as bold and sophisticated as Atlanta and Veep, they will accept another traditional sitcom?

Who better to ask that Chuck Lorre, who created The Big Bang Theory with Bill Prady and whose mastery of the genre has produced winners, including Two and Half Men and Mom, but also makes the contemporary style of Netflix The Kominsky method. The Hollywood veteran covers his answer: "I spent enough time knowing that a prognosis is a really great way to carve how stupid you are. Or arrogant "- then admits his confidence in the format known as" multi-camera ", for the multiple cameras used in recordings.

" I still believe that shooting a show in front of an audience is a wonderful way to tell a story, "said Lorre. "I do not think the public is watching (The Big Bang Theory) and counts the cameras. They watch the show because they like the characters and it's comedy. "

Lorre's optimism is sustained," said Robert Thompson, professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University.

"A lot of people talk about the studio. the sitcom's audience being a bit out of Colonial Williamsburg, she's past her peak, Thompson said. "Whenever someone advances this argument, the first thing I would say is that The Big Bang Theory figures at the top of the list of ratings, or almost," even against the headwinds of broadcast platforms such as YouTube and Netflix.

The third and last penultimate episode of the series, May 5, was the most-watched show on cable television or with 12.5 million viewers, thus dismissing the huge Game of Thrones from HBO, which closes its eight-season episode on May 19.

There is also the weight of the story on the multi-cam. He came from radio comedies and their stars, including the Nelson family in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Ethel Waters in Beulah, who were among the first to add images to their striking lines – although he was Desi Arnaz, the I Love Lucy The producer who played the opposite woman, Lucille Ball, to popularize the shooting of sitcoms with three (now four) cameras, partly for its effectiveness.