‘Young Sheldon’ Spinoff About Georgie & Mandy Nears CBS Series Order From Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland

Nellie Andreeva
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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.

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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.

(L-R): Emily Osment and Montana Jordan in ‘Young Sheldon’
(L-R): Emily Osment and Montana Jordan in ‘Young Sheldon’

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.

The new show also extends Lorre’s continuous presence on CBS that dates back more than 20 years. His two current comedies on the network, Young Sheldon and Bob ♥ Abishola, are both ending their runs this season.

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Holland, Molaro and Lorre will write the script and executive produced the spinoff, which was in early stages when the upcoming end of Young Sheldon was announced in November.

All three have worked on The Big Bang Theory or Young Sheldon (or both simultaneously) since the launch of the mothership series, which Lorre co-created, in 2007. Molaro ran BBT for years before teaming up with Lorre to co-create Young Sheldon and taking on showrunner duties for the prequel, with Holland succeeding him at the helm of BBT before segueing to Young Sheldon following mega-hit’s end in 2019.

(L-R) Montana Jordan as Georgie, Zoe Perry as Mary, Emily Osment as Mandy, and Iain Armitage as Sheldon in ‘Young Sheldon’
(L-R) Montana Jordan as Georgie, Zoe Perry as Mary, Emily Osment as Mandy, and Iain Armitage as Sheldon in ‘Young Sheldon’

The Young Sheldon spinoff is separate from the BBT spinoff for Max from Lorre, which he recently revealed is in the initial conceptual phase. At the Warner Bros Discovery streamer, Lorre co-created and executive produces comedy series Bookie, which was just renewed for a second season. All Lorre shows are produced by WBTV, where he has been based for 25 years.

Osment was a series regular on Hannah Montana and starred in Young & Hungry. Prior to joining Young Sheldon as a recurring in Season 5 before being promoted to a series regular at the start of Season 6, Osment guest starred on Lorre’s Two and a Half Men on CBS and recurred on his series Mom (CBS) and The Kominsky Method (Netflix).

This would mark CBS’ fifth new scripted series for the 2024-25 season, joining dramas NCIS: Origins, Matlock and Watson and multi-camera comedy Poppa’s House. Additionally, the network is exploring a potential Fire Country spinoff.

The 14-episode seventh and final season of Young Sheldon premieres February 15 and will end with a one-hour series finale May 16. The series is finding a new audience on Netflix where previous seasons have drawn large viewership.

Lorre is repped by UTA. Holland is repped by WME. Jordan is repped by Alchemy Entertainment and Brecheen Feldman Breimer. Osment is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360 and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel.

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