George & Mandy’s First Marriage — the title of the Young Sheldon spinoff at CBS — may suggest a level of pessimism about the story but that’s the point of the new multi-camera sitcom launching next spring, explains Executive Producer Chuck Lorre . “Georgie is 19. He dropped out of high school.
How smooth is his marriage going to go?” Lorre told reporters Saturday at the Television Critics Tour. “Yes, there is pessimism at first, but there is hope, as well, if you are patient with us.” Related Stories News CBS Orders ‘Young Sheldon’ Georgie & Mandy Spinoff Series Starring Montana Jordan And Emily Osment Casting Will Sasso & Rachel Bay Jones Return As Mandy’s Parents In ‘Young Sheldon’ Spinoff The series from executive producers Lorre, Steve Holland and Steven Molaro and Warner Bros Television will center on the characters of Georgie Cooper and his fiancée Mandy McAllister, played on Young Sheldon by Montana Jordan and Emily Osment , respectively.
Unlike Young Sheldon , the comedy will be multi-camera — which, predictably, spawned questions from reporters about the viability of the format. ‘We’ve done this long enough and heard multiple times that multi-camera sitcoms are dead,” said Holland. “Before The Big Bang Theory , people liked to make these predictions but all it takes is something the audience connects with and it’s not true anymore.
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