Scoop: Coming Up on THE BIG BANG THEORY on CBS - Today, May 17, 2018

On the episode "The Novelization Correlation" - When Sheldon petitions Wil Wheaton to appear on the new Professor Proton show, Wil offers a role to Amy instead. Also, Penny gets angry when she thinks the female protagonist in Leonard's novel is based on her, on a rebroadcast of THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, May 17 (8:00-8:31 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Christine Baranski and Wil Wheaton return to guest star. (Originally broadcast 2/1/18.)

Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists - geniuses in the laboratory but socially challenged everywhere else. Enter beautiful, street-smart neighbor Penny, who aims to teach them a thing or two about life. Despite their on-again, off-again relationship in the past, Leonard and Penny have finally gotten married.

Even Sheldon has found a female companion, entering into a "relationship agreement" with neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler, and he recently took their relationship to the next level by proposing marriage. In their free time, Leonard and Sheldon enjoy fantasy role-playing games with their ever-expanding universe of friends, including fellow scientists Koothrappali, Wolowitz and Wolowitz's adorable microbiologist wife, Bernadette, who is adjusting to life with their new baby gir