CBS has given The Big Bang Theory spin-off Young Sheldon a full-season order, the network announced Wednesday.
Young Sheldon stars Big Little Lies’ Iain Armitage as 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper, the character played by Jim Parsons on The Big Bang Theory, and follows his trials and tribulations as a boy genius in an anti-intellectual East Texas town in 1989.
The Big Bang Theory’s Season 11 premiere averaged a 4.1 rating in the key demo and 17.7 million viewers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Young Sheldon was the most-watched comedy premiere on any network since 2 Broke Girls in 2011, pulling an audience of 17.21m viewers.