# Young Sheldon to hit the tube

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-to-hit-the-tube/782123>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 13, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-to-hit-the-tube/782123 "2017-03-13T23:32:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-to-hit-the-tube/782123/21 "2017-03-16T11:17:37Z")

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> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> I wonder if this will be as successful as **Joey**.

Seconded. TBBT works in part because it is an ensemble show - there were five characters (and then seven plus a few regular supporting characters like Stuart, Kwipke and Wheaton) which meant that even if we found some of the characters annoying the full focus wasn’t on them. \*Friends \*worked the same way. Extract one character and build the entire show around them with only supporting characters and the shtick gets old pretty damn fast.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-to-hit-the-tube/782123/22 "2017-03-16T12:34:58Z")

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> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#):
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> Has there ever been a prequel to a sitcom like this before?
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> While reading the posts here I started thinking if there’s ever been a show like this, recounting a popular adult character’s childhood?😕

_Sex and the City_ had _The Carrie Diaries_. Looking at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for the latter leads me to [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prequel_television_series) list. Not all sitcoms, of course.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-sheldon-to-hit-the-tube/782123/23 "2017-03-16T13:27:39Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> Seconded. TBBT works in part because it is an ensemble show - there were five characters (and then seven plus a few regular supporting characters like Stuart, Kwipke and Wheaton) which meant that even if we found some of the characters annoying the full focus wasn’t on them. \*Friends \*worked the same way. Extract one character and build the entire show around them with only supporting characters and the shtick gets old pretty damn fast.

To a degree, yes. But take away Sheldon and the show flounders. In Friends, the characters were all equal. But TBBT is essentially the Sheldon Show.

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