Welcome back to great day Washington.
Young Sheldon is in its fifth season and
I caught up with the Star and Arlington,
VA native Ian Armitage to hear all about it.
Ian Armitage, so good to have you
back in your hometown. Hey there,
it's so good to be back
even if just virtually.
It's amazing because I can sort
of virtually smell that fresh,
you know, DC air and you know I'll
see all the virtual DC people.
Well, we are so proud of
you as a hometown boy.
You've done so much in your career
and now season five of young Sheldon.
OK, so season four ended with
quite a few cliffhangers, right?
Missy and Sheldon ran away.
Your parents, George and
Mary had a little fight.
So what's in store for season 5?
How we kicking this off?
Well, we're kicking us off in a
shack in the woods because why not?
Missing children are going to be
having a very nice and funny and also
kind of emotional scene together,
and George and Mary.
Like you said there was going to be
some bumps in the relationship like
they hinted at in Big Bang Theory.
So it's I mean we're already a
couple episodes in because we
film ahead of time, right?
And it's been so much fun.
Our writers have been doing an awesome
job this season and every season.
I bet it's so glad to be back to work
and back with your crew together.
It really is.
But you guys have so much fun now.
What's interesting,
you mentioned The Big Bang theory and
they did kind of always allude to the
relationship of Sheldon's parents.
There's a clip with Pastor Jeff
when he comes over to the house,
and George senior kind of has
this maybe reflection moment.
So are we going to kind of maybe
develop that a little bit more?
I think we're going to
a bit, uhm, hopefully not
too much, because I mean, we don't.
We don't want things to go
to down, of course, that.
Alright, I have to ask you
posted something on Instagram,
your real life dad, your dad in
real life is on Broadway right now,
right in Hamilton.
Yes, how exciting. I mean, First off,
I know you're a Broadway person,
so how excited are you that Broadway is back,
let alone your dad is in one
of the biggest shows there is.
It's so exciting. Oh my gosh, you know.
Since I was really little,
I love doing Ian. Love cedar.
I love reviewing shows,
seeing shows, all of it,
and I'm so excited that Broadway is back.
Also, I recently got to visit
New York and see my dad right
before everything opened up again.
And he's doing really well.
I'm so happy about that.
Actually.
I went to his apartment.
And his apartment is so cool
because so like eclectic and
awesome and I love his sense
of like style and decoration so
we you know we agree on a lot
of the things in the apartment.
But also he has these really cool
plants that he's grown onto his walls.
So it's like Ivy snaking blocks so cool.
Well we've known you to
do a lot of TV already.
We know that you love theater.
Is there a show that you always
wanted to do on Broadway?
Oh great question, uhm. Oh my gosh, put
you on the spot again.
Ah. Oh, I don't know.
There's so many good ones,
I think it'd be cool to do like
one of those old sitcoms like
friends or Seinfeld or something
because I think it just be cool to
do like one episode on Broadway.
I mean, hey, maybe we could even
do young Sheldon that be awesome.
There you go. There's so many good ones,
though I don't even know.
I promise I put jobs.
It also would be cool to do like
like like kind of what they did with
frozen and stuff where you do like
an animated movie onto Broadway.
I could say that I could see you doing that.
Well hopefully we'll see you there,
but for now we're excited that you are still
on our screens at home for Young Sheldon.
Congrats again Ian on season 5. Thank
you so much and also thank you
to everyone there in the you
know DC area and just outside.
I live in Arlington so.
Oh, he's adorable season five
premiere of Young Sheldon
airs tonight at 8:00 PM.
Right here, W USA 9.