‘Big Bang’ to start filming now that deals are settled

The Big Bang Theory has crunched its numbers and Season 8 is back on track.

Actors Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar reached agreement on new salary deals Tuesday, concluding a series of contractual negotiations that resulted in a week-long delay in the start of production for the fall season.

“Production on Season 8 of The Big Bang Theory will begin Wednesday … with contract negotiations now having been concluded,” Warner Bros. Television, which produces the CBS comedy, said in a statement.

Their deals come on the heels of new contracts for the show’s top three stars, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco, who are each expected to make $1 million per episode for the next three seasons, according to Deadline, and get a larger share of the top-rated comedy’s huge syndication profits.Salary increases for Helberg and Nayyar were not available.

Contracts for all five actors had expired at the end of the last TV season in May. Two other series regulars, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, signed new contracts last year and weren’t part of the negotiations.

The new deals cover the show’s three-year pickup by CBS, although the show could go on after that time.

The production delay will not affect delivery of episodes for the new season of Big Bang, which will begin with a two-episode premiere on Sept. 22 in its temporary Monday time slot.