For 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science isn't always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted and somewhat na%C3%AFve Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him. For 10 years on The Big Bang Theory, audiences have come to know the iconic, eccentric and extraordinary Sheldon Cooper. Young Sheldon is a single-camera, half-hour comedy that gives us the chance to meet him in childhood, as he embarks on his innocent, awkward and hopeful journey toward the man he will become.