CBS’ ‘Young Sheldon’ Is a Much, Much Smaller Hit Without ‘The Big Bang Theory’ | PRO Insight

“Young Sheldon” is growing up, but that doesn’t mean CBS’ “Big Bang Theory” spinoff is getting better with age. On Thursday, “Young Sheldon” premiered its first season without “The Big Bang Theory” as its lead-in, suffering series lows as a result. The spinoff starring Iain Armitage as the kid version of Jim Parsons’ Sheldon Cooper managed a 1.0 rating in the important adults 18-49 demographic, according to Nielsen. The rating made “Young Sheldon” the third highest-rated entertainment show on broadcast last night, behind only ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” Season 16 premiere at 8 p.m. and the show that immediately followed it, the Season 2 start for “A Million Little Things” at 9. Also Read: 12 New Fall TV Shows Ranked by Premiere Viewers: From 'Perfect Harmony' to 'The Unicorn' (Updating) So it was Thursday’s highest-rated comedy. And with 8.1 million total viewers, “Young Sheldon” was the most-watched primetime entertainment series on Thursday. We keep specifying “entertainment” here because the show was also facing off against Fox’s season premiere of “Thursday Night Football,” which dwarfed all other programming, as NFL games always do. On their faces (especially the 8-plus million viewers), those numbers don’t look so bad. Looking at them side-by-side with the...

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