According to Deadline, the executive producer of Young Sheldon, Steve Holland (Zoey 101), explained why the show will be ending after the seventh season. Holland spoke to reporters about the series on Tuesday Feb. 13 on Stage 19 of the Warner Bros. lot. According to Holland, it was the knowledge of Sheldon’s early life that led to the decision to end the show.
Deadline claimed that Holland said, “There are certain things we know happen in Sheldon’s life at 14, we started talking about the future of the show, and what it looked like. This is the right time for this story to come to an end, knowing that at 14, he goes off to Cal Tech. It felt like the right time to end it strong while it was on top.”
Deadline explained that Iain Armitage (Big Little Lies, Scoob!), who plays the titular character, also piped in on the topic of the end of the show, saying, “Can’t we just leave it at I’m tall and cool and I look like Jim [Parsons] now?”
Deadline cited that Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang theory), an executive producer, weighed in on Armitage and his resemblance to Sheldon. He said that it was this fact that kept the show alive, claiming, “It’s important to say that we wouldn’t be sitting here, had not eight years ago, Iain’s mom sent us a video of him doing a scene that Steven and I wrote that we never intended to shoot, this guy killed it. And if that had not happened, we wouldn’t have gone forward. It’s the miracle of casting Young Sheldon. It was one we understood was likely not going to happen but it did. And this family blossomed around him.”
While the show Young Sheldon may be coming to an end, this is not the end-all-be-all for the Cooper family. Deadline said that a new spinoff is in the works based on Sheldon’s brother Georgie and his fiancée Mandy McAllister, who are played by Montana Jordan (It feels Evil) and Emily Osment (Hannah Montana).