Chuck Lorre’s surprisingly prolific series of Big Bang Theory spin-offs—which began with  young sheldon and then metastasized to Georgie And Mandy’s First Marriage—is moving steadily closer to getting bigger, as…now has an official name: Stuart Fails To Save The Universe.

And while for us that title merely serves to simultaneously invokes Al Franken’s Stuart Saves His Family and Andy Richter Controls The Universe, for people with more up-to-date brains, it also clues them into the fact that the series will center on Stuart Bloom, the comic proprietor played by Kevin Sussman in the original series. The series will also (unofficially, since it doesn’t have a green light yet) star Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn, and John Ross Bowie, all reprising their roles from The Big Bang Theory, which went off the air back in 2019. If it ends up going to air, the series will drag us back into the present day of the Bang-iverse, which has mostly been stuck in flashback land, outside the framing sequence for the final episode of Young Sheldon, ever since the original show ended.

Lorre has been sniffing around at this idea for years, but started moving things into a more formal position last October. (The producer’s apparently in a Big Bang mood, having…on the first episode of The Official Big Bang Theory Podcast, a project leaping into life a scant six years after the original show went off the air. Lorre’s podcast comments reflected on the evolution of Kaley Cuoco’s character Penny as the series went through its various pilots, admitting that, as written, “she was sadly one-dimensional in many ways” in the show’s first few episodes.) The Stuart series, which is being developed by Warner Bros. TV, is being pitched toward Max, where it may end up rubbing shoulders with later Cuoco efforts, like her genuinely great animated series Harley Quinn.