The success of any long-running television show has to start from somewhere. Like most sitcoms, a pilot episode presents an opportunity to see what works and what doesn't. You never know what's going ...

In the earliest days of MTV, few songs were more inescapable than Devo’s fractured New Wave classic “Whip It.” With hardly any bands making music videos when MTV launched in 1981, the fledgling ...

The Big Bang Theory was one of the most popular TV shows about a group of awkward physicists whose social skills get tested when a cute neighbor moves into their apartment. Even though the sweet, ...

Hawking, of course, has been referenced numerous times on the CBS series, and in one episode befriended main character Sheldon (Jim Parsons) via game "Words With Friends." "When I'm not playing Words ...