CBS’s Young Sheldon follow-up, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, is proving the franchise still travels when it stops leaning on Sheldon and instead doubles down on young-adult chaos, new-parent pressure, and small-town family politics. As per FlixPatrol’s December 10, 2025, worldwide Prime Video TV chart, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage was the fourth most-watched title, putting it in the same daily conversation as bigger, noisier titles, including but not limited to Landman, The American Revolution, and Boston Blue.

On HBO Max, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage is sitting in the Top 10 across dozens of international markets, with its average placement landing in the mid-4 range worldwide. That’s more valuable than a quick #1 spike because it signals repeat viewing and the kind of day-to-day consistency streamers reward. It’s also the exact pattern you see in regions where comfort comedies quietly dominate over time, especially across Europe, Latin America, and smaller but loyal markets.

In the U.S., the show has been hovering around #7 to #8 since last week. For a sitcom spin-off, that’s a strong position in a feed packed with bigger budget originals and headline-grabbing releases, and it suggests the audience isn’t just sampling it, they are sticking with it. Neon TV in New Zealand, for instance, is the clearest proof of stability because the series has been locked at #5 there every single day for the past week, with zero dips.

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The origin of it all, The Big Bang Theory, is the crowd-pleaser benchmark, with an 81% critic rating and an even stronger 85% audience score, showing that it worked as both a mainstream comedy and a long-term comfort rewatch. Young Sheldon, on the other hand, keeps that audience love alive with an 84% audience rating. Then Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage flips the pattern. It has an 89% critic rating but a lower 68% audience rating, which usually signals a pivot that critics respect, but casual fans are still deciding on.

The hook is simple: Georgie and Mandy are trying to build a life while everyone around them keeps pulling the steering wheel. That’s why it’s translating on streaming right now, where comfort comedies win by giving viewers fast character friction, clear stakes, and easy one-more-episode momentum. Next, the franchise is all set to go bigger and stranger with HBO Max’s Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, a multiverse comedy where Stuart breaks a Sheldon and Leonard device and has to restore reality.

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is still in the early development phase, with writing and pre-production underway, which might make a late-2026 debut the most realistic scenario unless production accelerates unusually fast. New episodes of Georgie & Mandy air on Thursdays on CBS. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.