Television channels tend to be serious in the United States. They give advance notice of launches and farewells, aware that the audience must be respected and that it is the best way to do the corresponding promotion. And, now that it is spring and the end of the traditional television season is approaching, Young Sheldon has the date that fans would never want to know: that of his definitive finale.
The CBS channel has confirmed that Thursday, May 16, will be the day that the public will be able to see the farewell of Sheldon Cooper, the character popularized by Jim Parsons in The Big Bang Theory and who, for seven seasons, has been played by Iain Armitage in the prequel. . It will do so with the broadcast of a double episode that, as reported at the time, will feature the participation of Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik.
“The Big Bang Theory was always a series with a live audience and Young Sheldon was a single-camera series,” explained Parsons about the experience of filming the finale of the prequel, which is recorded without an audience who can laugh at the jokes. right there while the actors work. Luckily, meeting Bialik, her fictional partner as Amy, helped her find the tone.
Young Sheldon, for the record, is not fired for lack of success. With a live audience that ranges between 6 and 7 million, and that rises to over 8 million when adding the delayed audience (and without counting those who will watch the episodes on streaming services), it is the most successful comedy on free-to-air television in the United States, ahead of Ghosts, which also airs on CBS.
Creators Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro and producer Steve Holland did not want to lengthen the series due to the character’s age. Sheldon Cooper is about to turn 14, which is when his father George dies and he moves to California to study at Cal Tech University. How are they supposed to continue the family sitcom Young Sheldon without Sheldon or without of the Coopers when they move with the protagonist to university?
But, on the part of the creative team, there is no intention of stopping: they have a spin-off in the pipeline. If Young Sheldon came from The Big Bang Theory, this prequel will produce a series focused on Georgie and Mandy, the characters played by Montana Jordan and Emily Osment.
In Spain, at the moment, the seventh season of Young Sheldon still does not have a release date on Movistar Plus, where the first six seasons are. The series is also broadcast on Warner TV and Prime Video has the first to fifth seasons in its catalog.
