Young Sheldon executive producer explains how series tackled 'emotional' moment ... trends now

A Young Sheldon executive producer explained how the show tackled the tough task in depicting the death of one of its beloved characters.

'The way we brought this show to an end here, it's emotional,' Steve Holland told Variety on Thursday. 'I was emotional doing it. It's emotional for the characters. It's emotional watching it back.'

On the show's episode titled A New Home and a Traditional Texas Torture, which aired Thursday and begins streaming Friday on Paramount+, it was revealed the character George Cooper, played by Lance Barber, had a fatal heart attack.

George's death had earlier been revealed on The Big Bang Theory, the CBS series Young Sheldon is a spinoff of.

On that show, the adult incarnation of his storyline son Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) had said he'd been 14 when his father had died.

In the storyline of Young Sheldon's seventh season, the younger incarnation of Sheldon is 14-years-old.

Producers had previously indicated that George's passing would be addressed in the last season of the show, according to the outlet, without specifying when that would happen.

'We always knew we were going to address it this season,' Holland told Variety Thursday. 'We always knew we were going to get to the funeral this season.

'And we always knew that George’s death would happen off screen, that we didn’t want to witness it. It was just a question of when.'

Holland told the outlet that plans to depict George's death and funeral on the series finale were 're-shifted' at the suggestion of the show's co-creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre.

'I think it was Chuck who said, "This is mostly a positive, uplifting show. Let’s not leave the audience deep in their grief. Let’s watch the family start to piece itself back together, and let’s end with

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