‘Young Sheldon’ Spinoff About Georgie & Mandy Nears CBS Series Order From Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland
Young Sheldon is coming to an end this season but the franchise will live on at CBS. The network is closing in on a straight-to-series order to a multi-camera spinoff of Young Sheldon from the seri…
deadline.com
Young Sheldon is coming to an end this season but the franchise will live on at CBS. The network is closing in on a straight-to-series order to a multi-camera spinoff of Young Sheldon from the series’ executive producers Steve Holland, Steven Molaro and Chuck Lorre and studio Warner Bros Television, sources tell Deadline. The new series will center on the characters of Georgie Cooper and his fiancée Mandy McAllister, played on the show by Montana Jordan and Emily Osment, respectively.
I hear deals with Jordan and Osment are still being worked out but the duo are expected to reprise their roles in the spinoff, which is poised to get a 13-episode order for the 2024-25 season. Reps for CBS and WBTV declined comment.
Jordan has been a series regular on Young Sheldon from the start, playing Sheldon’s older brother George Marshall “Georgie” Cooper Jr, who dropped out of school at 17 to work full time at Meemaw’s laundromat where he first met Mandy (Osment) in Season 5. She was 29 at the time; he was 17 but lied to her that he was 21. Mandy eventually discovered the truth but by then she and Georgie were expecting. It took a while, but Georgie gradually regained Mandy’s trust and the new parents got engaged in the Season 6 finale.
There is no clear roadmap for Georgie and Mandy’s relationship. By Season 12 of The Big Bang Theory, where Georgie was played by Jerry O’Connell, the former school dropout had become a successful tire store chain owner who had been married and divorced twice. That means that a potential Georgie and Mandy marriage won’t last but it could presumably span the length of a TV series, and Young Sheldon producers have spoken about taking liberties with the BBT cannon in the prequel.
As Young Sheldon already has been getting closer to the events in BBT, the Georgie and Mandy follow-up could potentially reach a period concurrent to BBT, though if Sheldon appears on the offshoot, he is expected to be portrayed by Young Sheldon star Iain Armitage and not by Jim Parsons, who played the character on BBT. (The same applies to Zoe Perry, who plays Georgie, Sheldon and Missy’s mom on Young Sheldon vs. her mom, Laurie Metcalf, who portrayed her on BBT.)
With the Georgie and Mandy spinoff, the franchise is returning to the multi-camera format of The Big Bang Theory after venturing into single-camera with Young Sheldon.
