Annie Potts apparently really hurt CBS's feelings with her Young Sheldon cancellation comments

Who would’ve thought there’d be so much behind-the-scenes drama on a family-friendly CBS prequel show about a young boy genius? According to author Jessica Radloff’s new oral history “Young Sheldon: The (Juicier-Than-Meemaw’s-Brisket) Inside Story Of The Hit Comedy,” there was plenty of that when the cameras weren’t rolling on the Big Bang Theory spin-off Young Sheldon. In a new excerpt released by TheWrap, Annie Potts, aka Meemaw, spoke about getting in hot water with the network after calling the show’s cancellation after seven seasons a “stupid business move” in a 2024 interview with Variety. After her comments went viral, Potts got a call from co-creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre, who relayed a message from CBS’s powers that be. “He said, ‘CBS has asked me to call you and tell you that their feelings are hurt that you said that it was ‘a stupid business move,’ and I just want you to know it was our decision. We were creatively done with it,'” Potts recalled. The actor said she and Lorre laughed about him stepping in to mediate the fallout between her and CBS. “I’m still laughing about it, because to imagine a network could get their feelings hurt,” Potts said. “I was like, ‘How the fuck do you think I feel?! I just lost my livelihood.’ My feelings were a little hurt, too, excuse me, huge corporation. I’m just a small little corporation, and I was enjoying doing that work, and I was sad to be done with it.”