CBS’ Les Moonves on Young Sheldon: “It was the quickest pitch and the quickest yes in the history of television”

The New York Times

“Chuck (Lorre) said, ‘Sheldon, East Texas, 9 years old.’ I said, ‘Done!’” Moonves says of The Big Bang Theory spinoff. But not everybody was initially on board. Jim Parsons, who is serving as an executive producer, worried about the show’s lack of a studio audience, which was intended to make it easier on the young stars. “When I first heard it, I was like, ‘Oh no! Why!’” says Parsons. “I just thought, ‘But y’all are so gifted at that multicam format.”