Spoiler alert: This story includes details of the May 16 series finale of CBS' "Young Sheldon." It's a wrap for "Young Sheldon" after seven seasons following Thursday's emotional two-episode series finale. The finale featured Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik making their first appearances on the "Big Bang Theory" spinoff prequel — as adult Sheldon Cooper and his wife (and verbal sparring partner) Amy Farrah Fowler. The final installment is filled with laughter and a final triumph for 14-year-old Sheldon (Iain Armitage), even as it begins with George Cooper Sr.'s funeral,...

If this story began with a narrator, it would go something like this: Seven years ago, just a few weeks from making his debut as the face of “Young Sheldon,” the prequel to CBS’s blockbuster comedy “The Big Bang Theory,” Iain Armitage was a spirited, baby-faced 9-year-old dangling upside down on a pair of gymnastic rings at a park in Studio City during a break from his very grown-up gig. That’s how this reporter first met Armitage. He was a kid who skipped and hopped across the park pavement and...

After seven seasons on air, the final episode of "Young Sheldon" is almost here. Conceived as a spinoff to the popular mid-to-late-2000s sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," "Young Sheldon" followed the early life of Sheldon Cooper before he became a physicist. The series is set from 1989 to 1994 and follows Sheldon, played by Iain Armitage, as he navigates life as a child prodigy and his family's lives in the small, fictional town of Medford, Texas. Even as "Young Sheldon" wraps this season, we aren't quite done with some of...