CBS Goes for Big Bang Theory Spin-Off Young Sheldon

STUDIO CITY: CBS has given a series order to Young Sheldon, a new half-hour comedy that follows The Big Bang Theory‘s Sheldon Cooper at the age of 9.

The single-camera comedy is ordered for the 2017-18 broadcast season. Created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro, the show will feature Sheldon Cooper as a boy living with his family in East Texas going to high school at age 9. Jon Favreau is directing and executive producing the first episode of the series, which stars Iain Armitage as 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper. The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons will narrate as adult Sheldon.