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Renewed: Young Sheldon

Big Bang prequel wins two more seasons in the US.

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Young Sheldon has been renewed for a third and fourth season by CBS.

The prequel to The Big Bang Theory follows 10-year old Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage) as he struggles to fit in with his family and classmates in East Texas.

It is the second most-watched comedy in the US, behind only Big Bang which will wrap up in coming months.

“Thanks to Chuck Lorre’s and Steve Molaro’s outstanding creative leadership, Young Sheldon has been a powerful performer for the Network with an audience that towers over most of the television landscape,” said Kelly Kahl, president of CBS Entertainment.

“The Coopers are portrayed by an amazing cast, and we are looking forward to having the gifted writing staff mine even more of Sheldon’s hilarious backstory and the warm family dynamic that has made this comedy a favourite with audiences for the past two seasons,” said Thom Sherman, senior executive vice president of programming for CBS Entertainment.

Young Sheldon airs in Australia on Nine.

Source: Variety

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  1. The idea of this show wasn’t appealing at first, but I am now addicted. I think the best move in the writing has been to make the Coopers quite a normal, and reasonably loving family. Before this show was made, we only had adult Sheldon’s view of his family, and he spoke of them as weirdos and repressive. It has been a great journey to discover that, as always, adult Sheldon take on the world is distorted.

  2. I wonder how far they’ll be able to take this show. In two more seasons, Sheldon will be age 12, which adult Sheldon (in The Big Bang Theory) says is the age he moved out and went to college. That means a Season 5 would see Sheldon separated from his parents – I wonder how well they’d be able to manage the story then.

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