'Georgie & Mandy' Co-Creator Promises 'Clean Slate' for Spinoff
Montana Jordan and Emily Osment as Georgie and Mandy
Young Sheldon executive producer Steve Holland won’t get a lot of time to bask in the success of the series finale, which became the most-watched episode of the show in four years.
He’ll take a few days off, and then start work on Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, the Young Sheldon spinoff that’s coming to CBS this fall.
The new comedy series will follow Sheldon Cooper’s (Iain Armitage) brother Georgie (Montana Jordan) and sister-in-law Mandy (Emily Osment) as they raise their family in 1990s Texas and experience the challenges of parenthood, marriage and adulthood. Holland created it with Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro, who together make up the same trio of producers on The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon.
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Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage is a spinoff of a spinoff, and it will be more like its grandparent The Big Bang Theory in format than its parent Young Sheldon. It will be a multi-camera show filmed in front of a live studio audience, instead of a single-camera show like Young Sheldon.
Holland and the rest of the team are psyched about Georgie & Mandy. “We're really excited about this cast,” he told Parade. “We're really excited about moving back to multicam. I think there's nothing quite like putting a show up in front of an audience every week. And I think this cast is going to be really fun to get up in front of an audience.” Plus, the switch-up allows the show to "find its own rhythm and find its own identity.”
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But Young Sheldon fans can rest assured that old faves will make appearances on the new show. “It's always been our hope that this is a world where these characters could recur and pop up,” Holland said. “It's important to us that this show sort of forms its own identity and not just feels like it's Young Sheldon 7.5. But they still live in Medford and the Coopers are still their family. And we love this cast. So I think you could expect to see some familiar faces pop up from time to time.” (The day after this interview was conducted, Will Sasso and Rachel Bay Jones were announced as series regulars, reprising their Young Sheldon roles as Mandy’s parents.)
Notably, Georgie & Mandy will be the first show set in the Big Bang Theory universe without Sheldon at the center, which Holland is excited about.
“Honestly, it's been great to write for that character for all these years,” he said. “But we have written for the character Sheldon for 19 seasons, something like that. So it's exciting to get to move on. And especially in a world where we're still in prequel territory, we're still in the past. One of the difficulties of Young Sheldon was that we always knew the end of his story. So there's only so much jeopardy you can put him in because everyone knows that he's going to end up fine. He's going to end up married, he's going to win a Nobel Prize. So it's nice to get a clean slate. We don't know much about Georgie and Mandy's life. We know a little bit, but very, very little. So it feels like we have a wide open space to tell whatever stories we want. And that's very exciting.”
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage premieres this fall on CBS.
