Love it or hate it, CBS' The Big Bang Theory is one of the biggest shows on television today, and a spin-off series is in the works centering on a young Sheldon Cooper. News has it that the show has found someone to fill in for Little Sheldon, and it's child actor Iain Armitage.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Armitage will be co-starring along with Zoe Perry (The Family) who will play Sheldon's mother, Mary Cooper. Jim Parsons, who currently plays the grown-up Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory is attached to executive produce the show, and show creators Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady are also said to be attached. None of the original cast members of TBBT are said to have roles.
What's interesting is, Sheldon will not be shot like a traditional sitcom, and it will be a single-camera comedy much like Malcolm in the Middle only with Sheldon at the center of it. The series is said to focus on Sheldon's childhood growing up a genius with a religious mother.
I don't know about you, but I think Jim Parsons is a superb actor, and he absolutely owns the role of Sheldon Cooper. Armitage will have some big shoes to fill if he'll be portraying the overly-neurotic genius who went to college at 13-years-old.
Sheldon still has no pilot order, but casting for parts is currently underway.
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