Your Weekly Guide to TV Entertainment
July 19 - 25, 2026
Kevin Sussman in “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe”
Break from reality A new addition to the Big Bang Theory franchise puts one of its least-likely characters front and center, ready to be a hero. “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe,” a multiverse-hopping sci-fi comedy, premieres on HBO Max Thursday, July 23. New episodes of the 10-part series drop weekly on the streamer. Kevin Sussman (“Lessons in Chemistry”) reprises his role as bumbling comic book store owner Stuart Bloom from the originating series.