And Armitage, who turns 10 in July, could wind up being the second youngest performer to get an Emmy nomination. Raegan Revord, as Sheldon’s twin sister, is mature beyond her years, at least when it comes to pressing the rest of her family’s pressure points. “Young Sheldon” especially gets the kids right.Īs the big brother, Montana Jordan could just as easily be Matthew McConaughey’s son, charming his female classmates with good ol’ boy charm. It has now been on the air for 11 seasons, the past five as a consistent member of the Nielsen Top 5. Given a second chance - and the casting of Kaley Cuoco - the character became a less manipulative, more openhearted foil for the two nerds played by Parsons and Johnny Galecki. The lead female character was originally conceived as a bit of a con artist. “Big Bang” famously sat on the shelf for two years after a pilot didn’t impress the network. One element that “Big Bang” and “Sheldon” do have in common: perfect casting. It’s been quite a learning curve, but I love the opportunity to work with it.” It’s just the nature of a theatrical performance. On any show performed in front of an audience, the actors hold for laughs and it changes the rhythm of a scene. “The moments are more intimate because the camera can be more intimate. “It’s an entirely different way to tell a story and the comedy plays differently,” Lorre said. The result: a sweeter, subtler sitcom without the broad, double-entendre jokes that fueled such Lorre hits as “Two and a Half Men” and “Mom.” It comes across as a 1980s “Andy Griffith Show,” in which a “good boy” struggling with detention is considered a major crisis. Also new for the wildly successful producer is a single-camera approach, one without a studio audience or laugh track. He provides the show’s narration, a first for a Lorre-produced sitcom. It was Parsons who originally pitched the idea of a prequel. “You’ll get to be more irritating before you know it,” Parsons told his young doppelgänger. Last month, Parsons and Armitage sat together on the front lawn of the “Young Sheldon” set, surrounded by bargain-basement patio chairs, a Radio Flyer wagon and patches of fake grass. You never want to sock him in the pocket protector, something that can’t be said about Jim Parsons’ adult version. The young version, played by Iain Armitage, prefers bow ties to superhero T-shirts, doesn’t completely shun human contact and comes across as more fascinated than fed up with mere mortals. In a recent episode, we watched the little Einstein soothed for the first time by “Soft Kitty,” a song he will continue to depend on whenever he catches a dreaded cold.īut in other ways, the two Sheldons seem more like distant cousins. The title character’s bedroom wall includes a poster of Stephen Hawking, a future friend of grown-up Sheldon, who sought the celebrity scientist’s blessing before proposing to his longtime girlfriend. Not that “Young Sheldon” ignores its roots. According to Lorre, they told themselves: “Let’s build a show that lives and dies by its own merits.” “We never wanted to lean on ‘Big Bang,’ ” said Chuck Lorre, co-creator of the two shows. A Thursday time slot immediately following its big brother didn’t hurt, either.īut 13 episodes in, “Sheldon” has remained in the Nielsen Top 10 for total viewership by forging its own identity, a strategy that helped “Cheers” spinoff “Frasier” develop into the most Emmy-winning sitcom ever. LOS ANGELES – It doesn’t take a nuclear physicist to figure out why “Young Sheldon” flew out of the gate as the hottest new sitcom of the season.Īs a prequel to “The Big Bang Theory,” viewers were bound to sample the series, if only to see how a 9-year-old version of the megahit’s breakout character would drive his folks batty in small-town Texas.
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