For Montana Jordan and Emily Osment, the news that Young Sheldon was coming to an end was softened when they learned just minutes later that they would be leading their own spinoff series for CBS.

“We just had a big Zoom call with the entire cast where the producers let us know it would be our last season,” Osment told TheWrap. “Fifteen minutes later my phone rang and Chuck (Lorre) said, ‘Hey, we’re going to keep doing this, but not everyone’s coming.'”

“Five minutes after I found out ‘Young Sheldon’ was over, they called me and told me they wanted to do it,” Jordan added.

With the new series, eventually titled “Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage,” in mind, filming the seventh and final season of “Young Sheldon” was “bittersweet,” Osment recalls: “We had to shoot season seven.” , I knew not everyone was going to be there, and it was really hard…it was difficult to deal with at times.”

“It’s been a hard road… A lot of me in Montana were jumping up and down on stage in little corners, hugging each other and then getting back to work,” Osment continued, while Jordan added, “We didn’t want that.” We’re taking something away from Young Sheldon just because we’re starting this new thing.”

Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage begins just months after the series finale of Young Sheldon, as newlyweds Georgie and Mandy pack their bags to live with Mandy’s parents (played by Rachel Bay Jones and Will Sasso). these raise their baby.

After the sudden death of Georgie’s father, George Sr. (Lance Barber), Jordan said on the final season of “Young Sheldon” that audiences “started to see (Georgie) grow up a little bit (and be the man of the household.” became). “, which creates a solid foundation as Georgie appears as Mandy’s husband and father of her child. However, that doesn’t mean there won’t be some rough patches along the way, with Jordan teasing: “There will be a lot of butting of heads between the young couple and Mandy’s parents.”

“It’s about a lot of things coming together at once – he becomes a father and he loses his own father and manages to live in a new place – and it’s going to take a lot out of him and show his true character, and Mandy will leave.” to be right there with him and support him,” Osment said. “I love seeing the transition from the little boy in Season 1 of ‘Young Sheldon’ to this family man that we see growing up right next to this character now and in Montana – it’s a really beautiful thing.”

After briefly meeting Mandy’s parents in “Young Sheldon,” Osment expressed her excitement about seeing “more of her heritage,” including meeting her brother Connor (Dougie Baldwin). “I look forward to whatever job or career path she pursues and whether she decides to go back to school,” Osment said. “I’m looking forward to the work-life balance they offer Mandy and hopefully how she handles it.”

After “The Big Bang Theory” established that Georgie and Mandy were getting divorced years ago, creators Chuck Lorre, Steve Holland and Steven Molaro cleverly titled the spin-off series “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” and refused to fitting into the universe’s canon box, with Holland telling TheWrap, “We don’t know that her second marriage is not to each other.”

“People do that all the time!” said Osment. “I think it’s right in the title.”

Osment noted that the team hasn’t discussed how Georgie and Mandy might get back together, but she noted that she doesn’t “need to know.” “I put my full trust in her and wherever this path takes me, I know it will be good,” Osment said, adding her gratitude that series creator Lorre had employed her for 14 years. “Every time I meet him or there’s a new show… There’s always the response, ‘Well, we don’t know where it’s going, you’ll just have to trust us,’ and I completely trust everything they write.”

“(The audience has) already seen all the cracks – they got married very young. She got pregnant very early and they both lied about her age,” Osment said. “I don’t know how much more that says. Whatever episode, it was the seventh season where we finally get married and where she says you started your marriage with lies and cheating. It only goes further from here, and I think that’s completely true.

After “Young Sheldon” differentiated itself from “The Big Bang Theory” by switching to single-cam, “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” switches back to multicam, a familiar environment for Osment and a new arena for Jordan.

“I love the atmosphere where we are all together every day – with a single camera it’s sometimes like ships in the night; “I would go like two weeks ago without seeing Zoe Perry because we just didn’t have a scene together,” Osment said. “On a multicam, you’re together at 9 a.m. every day, whether you’re involved in the episode big or small, you’re on stage and you’re ready to go. It’s such a theatrical environment; It’s such a family.”

“It’s very different,” Jordan said of multicam footage. “When ‘Young Sheldon’ started, I didn’t know anything, hell, I didn’t know what I was doing… I’m going to do my best because they believed that all four of us main characters were creating this series, that they were creating this had vision, so I will do my best not to let them down.”

Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage premieres Thursdays at 8:00 pm PST on CBS and streams on Paramount+.

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