According to Deadline, the executive producer of Young Sheldon, Steve Holland, explained why the show will be ending after the seventh season. The news came on Tuesday on Stage 19 of the Warner Bros. lot. According to Holland, it was the knowledge of Sheldon’s early life that led to the decision to end the show.
Deadline claimed that Holland said, “There are certain things we know happen in Sheldon’s life at 14, we started talking about the future of the show, and what it looked like. This is the right time for this story to come to an end, knowing that at 14, he goes off to Cal Tech. It felt like the right time to end it strong while it was on top.”
Deadline showed that even the actor who played the titular character, Iain Armitage, piped in on the topic of the end of the show, saying, “Can’t we just leave it at I’m tall and cool and I look like Jim [Parsons] now?”
Deadline cited that Chuck Lorre, an executive producer, weighed in on Armitage and his resemblance to Sheldon. He said that it was this fact that kept the show alive, claiming, “It’s important to say that we wouldn’t be sitting here, had not eight years ago, Iain’s mom sent us a video of him doing a scene that Steven and I wrote that we never intended to shoot, this guy killed it. And if that had not happened, we wouldn’t have gone forward. It’s the miracle of casting Young Sheldon. It was one we understood was likely not going to happen but it did. And this family blossomed around him.”
While the show Young Sheldon may be coming to an end, this is not the end-all-be-all for the Cooper family. Deadline said that a new spin off is in the works based on Sheldon’s brother Georgie and his fiancée Mandy McAllister, who are played by Montana Jordan and Emily Osment.