
We never have to worry about Kaley Cuoco being gone from our TV screens for long. In the 2020s alone, she’s starred in HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant and Peacock’s Based on a True Story, as well as voiced Harley Quinn’s titular antihero. Now we’re about to reunite with Cuoco on the 2026 TV schedule for Vanished, her mystery drama that will stream on MGM+ (which can be added onto your Prime Video subscription). While Vanished will obviously be tonally different compared to the work the actress did on The Big Bang Theory, she gave another interesting reason why this show is different from her “indoor cat” years on the popular CBS sitcom.
Kaley Cuoco starred as Penny for the entirety of The Big Bang Theory’s 12-season run, and before that, she cut her teeth in the multi-camera sitcom world with John Ritter on 8 Simple Rules. Now while those kinds of comedy show jobs come with their own perks, as the actress told TVLine, they don’t allow for traveling, like she got to do on Vanished: