Young Sheldon's Schedule is a Hot Mess, But There's a Reason
If you're not a basketball fan, you might as well just skip a month and tune in on CBS in April.
As Young Sheldon 's season 6 is slowly heading toward the end, fans are eager to know how the story of Cooper's family will turn out.
The grand finale of this season is set to premiere on May 18, 2023, at 8 pm on CBS, and it is promised to take a whole hour, which will make it double the length of the usual episode.
However, the waiting game continues with an uncertain schedule for the upcoming episodes leading to the finale.
It's not the first time fans notice how chaotic the schedule of Young Sheldon is.
In fact, taking a closer look, you may notice this issue affects many CBS TV shows: sometimes you get an episode every week, sometimes every other week, and other times you may need to wait well over a week to see how the story goes.
As many TV series viewers are used to the stability of streaming services like Netflix provides, they may find these changes quite annoying and hard to follow. However, there is actually a reason for these changes.
NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, which is more commonly known as March Madness, is happening every spring in the US, and it just so happens that CBS is one of the channels airing all the games.
These broadcasts interrupt the schedule of release for all the shows that air on Thursdays and Fridays, and since they happen every year, it might seem like the schedule is always messy.
As unfortunate as it is, there are not many Young Sheldon fans who are also into basketball, so chances are people just did not know this.
However, that's not the only theory fans have about constant schedule changes:
"CBS is also trying to get a lot of the episodes into the sweeps months. Those are the months when viewership is measured and the more viewership for the network, the higher the advertising rates they can charge," Redditor MajorZombie7204 said, suggesting November, February, and May to be the most interesting months for the advertisers.
If you are already way too deep into the story and don't mind some slight changes to episode release dates, make sure to tune in to CBS on May 18, 2023, at 8 pm to see how Young Sheldon's season 6 will unfold.