The tenth season of the American
sitcom ''
The Big Bang Theory'' premiered on CBS on Monday, September 19, 2016.
The series returned to its regular Thursday night time slot on October 27, 2016 after ''
Thursday Night Football on CBS'' ended. The season concluded on May 11, 2017.
On March 12, 2014, ''The Big Bang Theory'' was renewed for an additional three years, extending it through the
2016–17 television season for a total of ten seasons.
Production
Like the previous two seasons, the first five episodes of the tenth season aired on a different night due to
CBS acquiring the rights to ''
Thursday Night Football
''Thursday Night Football'' (often abbreviated as ''TNF'') is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that broadcast primarily on Thursday nights. Most of the games kick off at 8:15 Eastern Time (8:20 prior to 20 ...
'' games. In May 2016, CBS announced at its annual upfront presentation that the series would begin its tenth season on Mondays, before returning to the Thursday slot once the football games ended.
Filming for the tenth season began on August 16, 2016, according to posts on
Instagram
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and
Twitter by several of the cast members including
Kaley Cuoco and
Mayim Bialik.
Several castings for the tenth season were announced before the season began airing. ''
Variety'' announced on July 22, 2016, that
Katey Sagal and
Jack McBrayer had been cast as Penny's mother and brother, respectively. Information about the characters was that Sagal would play Susan, who was described as stressed out and neurotic from a life with her troubled son. McBrayer would play Randall, a cheerful former drug dealer and ex-con. ''
Entertainment Weekly'' reported on August 10, 2016, a week before filming began, that
Dean Norris would have a multi-episode arc in the tenth season, and would be playing
Colonel Williams, a tough officer from the
Air Force Research Laboratory, who is interested in the men's quantum gyroscope for military applications. On November 9, 2016, ''
TVLine'' reported that
Christopher Lloyd had been cast as Theodore for the season's December 1 episode.
Cast
Main cast
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Johnny Galecki as
Dr. Leonard Hofstadter
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Jim Parsons as
Dr. Sheldon Cooper
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Kaley Cuoco as
Penny
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Simon Helberg
Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing Howard Wolowitz in the CBS sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'' (2007–2019), for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supp ...
as
Howard Wolowitz
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Kunal Nayyar as
Dr. Rajesh "Raj" Koothrappali
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Mayim Bialik as
Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler
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Melissa Rauch
Melissa Ivy Rauch (born June 23, 1980) is an American actress, model and comedian. She is known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory'', for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Televi ...
as
Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
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Kevin Sussman
Kevin Sussman (born December 4, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. He played Walter on the ABC comedy-drama ''Ugly Betty'' and Stuart Bloom on the CBS sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory''. Starting with the sixth season of ''The Big Bang Theory ...
as
Stuart Bloom
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Recurring cast
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Christine Baranski
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as
Dr. Beverly Hofstadter
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Laurie Metcalf as
Mary Cooper
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Dean Norris as Colonel Richard Williams
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Brian George as
Dr. V.M. Koothrappali
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Brian Posehn
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as
Dr. "Bert" Bertram Kibbler
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John Ross Bowie as
Dr. Barry Kripke
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Pamela Adlon as Halley Wolowitz (
voice only)
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Brian Thomas Smith
Brian Thomas Smith (born May 13, 1977) is an American actor and comedian known for playing the dim-witted but kind-hearted Zack Johnson in ''The Big Bang Theory'' for nine seasons. He has also made other TV appearances on '' Fear Factor'', ''Tw ...
as Zack Johnson
Guest cast
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Judd Hirsch as Alfred Hofstadter
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Keith Carradine
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as Wyatt
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Katey Sagal as Susan
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Jack McBrayer as Randall
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Josh Zuckerman as Marty
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Laura Spencer as Emily Sweeney
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Brandon Jones as
The Flash
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Maria Canals-Barrera as Issabella Maria Concepcion
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Christopher Lloyd as Theodore
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Kate Micucci as Lucy
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Alessandra Torresani as Claire
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Katie Leclerc as Emily
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April Bowlby as Rebecca
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Riki Lindhome as
Ramona Nowitzki
Episodes
Ratings
References
General references
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External links
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