Thanks to The Big Bang Theory — and the key facts of Sheldon’s life that it revealed over the course of 12 seasons — Young Sheldon’s producers knew when to end the spinoff sitcom.
Speaking to the press last week, Warner Bros. on stage 19 of the Studios. (via Deadline ), executive producer Steve Holland explained why the production team decided to end the spin-off with a seventh season, which is currently airing on CBS.
“We know that things are happening in Sheldon’s life at 14 years oldHolland explained. “We started talking about the future of the show and what it would look like. It’s a good time to end this story knowing he went to Cal Tech at 14. It was the right time to end on a high note before the story reaches its peak.“
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“Can’t we just leave it at that: I’m tall and cool and now I look like Jim?“- joked the show’s star, 15-year-old Ian Armitage, who plays Jim Parsons, a younger version of Sheldon. The big bang theory.
Executive producers, including Chuck Lorre and Stephen Molaro, also recalled how the top-rated single-camera comedy wouldn’t have happened in 2017 without discovering the precocious actor when he was just 9 years old. At that time, she had already starred – and shone – in the famous TV series Big Little Lies a few months earlier.
“It’s important to say that we wouldn’t be sitting here if eight years ago Iain’s mum hadn’t sent us a video of him acting out a scene that Stephen and I had written and we didn’t like it. shooting“, he said Chuck Lorre. “This guy ruined everything. And if it wasn’t for that, we wouldn’t be moving forward. This is the miracle of choosing young Sheldon. We knew it probably wouldn’t happen, but it did. And this family flourished around him.“
A family story that will continue with a spin-off centered on the characters of George Cooper and his fiancee Mandy McAllister, played by Montana Jordan and Emily Osment. Learn more about it here…
And the fate of Sheldon’s father then?
SPOILER ALERT! The rest of this article contains the main elements of “Young Sheldon” as revealed in its main series, “The Big Bang Theory”.
During the panel, the press also asked actor Lance Barber, who plays Sheldon’s father George, to find out if he was surprised to be alive in the sitcom. Indeed, in The big bang theoryIt is revealed that Sheldon’s father died when he was 14 years old.
“I crossed my fingers from the start that this would be the end when it did.“, he told the journalists. “We know the story of George. Personally, as a character actor like that, I have that legacy, I see what life brings me. I never felt that the end was coming soon, nor did I fear it.“
On February 13, the American media TVLine asked about this topic, Steve Holland Then he remained rather evasive: “I don’t want to say what you will and won’t see, but some things will be covered. We don’t depend on all the jokes made about him on The Big Bang Theory, but we do know the main events that shaped Sheldon’s life. We want to honor them“, he said.
We also know that Season 7 will mark the return of Billy Sparks’ (Wyatt McClure) character, Sheldon’s somewhat simple neighbor, who will finally explain the plot that was also revealed The big bang theory. Indeed, in the original series, Sheldon repeatedly referred to his former neighbor Bill as “the biggest childhood bully”. However, Bill’s behavior Young Sheldon It was never malicious, on the contrary, and therefore does not correspond to the character described by the adult version of the character. Therefore, it is very possible that Bill will attack Sheldon in the new episodes.
Will the ending satisfy fans?
Chuck Lorre In turn, he admitted that he was not sure what the community was about Young Sheldon He hoped for the series finale and didn’t want to guess.
“It is a matter of prideHe said about trying to write for fans. “Assuming we know what the public wants, it’s funny how you can know? It prevents us from doing good work. You do what you think fits the characters, the tone of the show. You do things that move you and hope that someone will agree with you. I don’t know any other way.“
The answer will be known in the coming weeks.
The seventh and final season of Young Sheldon airs every Thursday on CBS. In France, you can watch the first 5 seasons of the series on Netflix.
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