Tech kudos will be held February 22 in San Francisco

The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons will host the third annual “Techfellow Awards” on February 22.
Presented by Founders Fund, TechCrunch and NEA, the “TechFellow Awards” provides up-and-coming technology innovators with $100,000 to build and invest in the next generation of startups.

“The ‘TechFellow Awards’ recognize the technology community’s brightest stars and welcome them into a peer group that will expand their potential and reach,” said Sean Parker, Executive General Partner at Founders Fund. “We’re shining a spotlight on individuals who are on the cusp of bringing us something revolutionary, while giving them the opportunity to identify and invest in the most exciting startups in the industry.”

Parker is among several notable tech moguls on this year’s selection committee, which also includes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Previous Techfellow winners include Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey; Maria Thomas, former CEO of Etsy and Paul Graham and former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo.

For more information visit www.techfellows.com

Source: Variety

Jim visited Ellen and talked about Broadway on Monday, February 6. Watch the whole interview below:

Not only is it a crock that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences nominated only two songs for Best Song, but now Deadline reports that we won’t even get to see the songs performed at this year’s Oscars! The blame seems to have landed on the awards show’s time constraints; each year it’s a battle to keep it to a neat and hopefully entertaining three hours, and despite protests from Fox and Disney, the songs got cut.

Honestly, I don’t care either way if we see “Real In Rio” from Rio — the real crime is taking away “Man Or Muppet” from The Muppets. It was written by Flight Of The Conchords’ Bret McKenzie and performed wonderfully by writer-star Jason Segel (not to mention the cameo from The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons). If we could get Zachary Levi and Mandy Moore onstage last year to sing their Tangled song, then we shouldn’t miss out on these relevant, genuinely beloved actors.

It’s no secret that Jason’s musical numbers are instant viral content, from his schadenfreude anthem “You Just Got Slapped” on How I Met Your Mother to the impromptu Les Miserables duet he and Neil Patrick Harris launched into on a talk show years ago. If the Academy wanted the Oscars fever to last beyond February 26, they should have included Jason, Jim and those damn adorable puppets.

The Academy is trying to do damage control by saying that the show isn’t set in stone yet. “Someone ‘leaking’ this possibility to you is just another way for people to try and influence the creative direction of the show,” an insider wrote to Deadline. We only hope they’ll change their minds and book Jason before he finds something better to do.

Source: Crushable

Jim Parsons Web has a brand new look! Hope you like it as much as we do!

Added 397 screen captures from this week’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, called “The Friendship Contraction”.

GALLERY LINKS:
• The Big Bang Theory > Season 5 > Episode 15

Jim looked handsome in his not-black Ermenegildo Zegna black-tie. In his presentation, he revealed he was a hyena in a bizarre childrens’ theatre production of “Hansel & Gretel” and did “Guys And Dolls” in a freezing warehouse for beer.

Added 6 HQ pics of him attending the event to the gallery:

GALLERY LINKS:
• Public Appearances: 2012 > 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Sitcom has topped talent show in total viewers and in the key 18-to-49-year-old segment

It’s way too early to say the king is in trouble, but American Idol has suffered a rare ratings wound.

For the last two Thursdays it has finished second in head-to-head competition with the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

Idol, which just launched its 11th season, has rarely lost a time slot to any other show, never mind a scripted show, over all those years.

In the 8-8:30 slot this Thursday, however, the preliminary Nielsen ratings show Big Bang with 15.96 million total viewers to 15.46 million for Idol.

More important, Big Bang also won the money demographic, 18-to-49-year-olds, with a 5.4 share against 4.8 for Idol.

Part of this reflects the fact that Big Bang is a powerhouse on its own, a show that has given CBS a major resurgence in comedies.

But the viewer numbers also reflect a big drop for Idol, which has averaged more than 20 million over the years.

There’s no need to hold bake sales for Idol yet. It commands the highest ad rates for a non-sports show in primetime. Historically, its ratings have risen as the season goes on and viewers get attached to contestants.

Idol also remains the primary reason Fox places at the top of the ratings for the second half of the TV season, and even this year’s lower numbers would put it in that position again.

Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly told TV critics earlier this month he expects Idol to slip in the ratings this year, if only because that happens to every TV show as years go by.

Still, the quirky geeks of Big Bang have now gone where no show has gone before.

Source: Daily News

Added a few MQ (hopefully they will be replaced for HQ soon) promotional stills from the next episodes of The Big Bang Theory:

GALLERY LINKS:
• The Big Bang Theory > Season 5 > Promotional Stills