The half-hour, single-camera comedy series, which stars Iain Armitage, Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Annie Potts, Raegan Revord, Montana Jordan and the voice of Jim Parsons, follows The Big Bang Theory‘s Sheldon Cooper (Armitage) at the age of 9, living with his family in east Texas and going to high school.
CBS announced today that the hit freshman comedy Young Sheldon is the network’s first renewal for the 2018-2019 broadcast season.
Young Sheldon is produced by Chuck Lorre Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Young Sheldon is the #1 new comedy in viewers (16.17m), adults 18-49 (3.3) and adults 25-54 (4.9), and is the #2 comedy in all of television (behind only The Big Bang Theory).