Armitage is best known for his role as Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory prequel, Young Sheldon, but now that the hit series is over, he’s been in the market for new and interesting jobs.
Ghosts, the CBS original series, started to air its fifth season in October 2025. The comedy took a long break in January, but it came back on February 26, 2026, to finish out the season. Armitage will appear in the 16th episode of the season, according to CBS.
Armitage could be unrecognizable to viewers as he portrays a character so unlike his famous role of Sheldon Cooper. In the episode “Woodstone Royale,” Sam and Jay, played by Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar, are in desperate need of a lot of money. In an effort to raise the funds, they host a high-stakes poker game.
The 17-year-old actor plays one of the poker players who comes to the mansion. In the released photos, he’s sporting a backwards hat, a button-up shirt, and a strong air of confidence as he takes a selfie with Jay and shows off his poker chips. Sitting around the table with Armitage are a businessman, an eccentric-looking elderly woman, and a host of other characters.
The episode was written by Sophia Lear, and it was directed by Cortney Carillo. It will also feature a storyline where the ghost Isaac, played by Brandon Scott Jones, takes Jay’s recliner into the basement as a “generous” gift for the other ghosts.
One of the last times viewers saw Armitage, he was leaving his Young Sheldon family behind so he could start his studies at Caltech, and Sheldon was mourning the loss of his father. He wasn’t a part of Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, which basically functioned as a sequel series for Young Sheldon.
Armitage was asked about coming back as Sheldon by TVInsider, and the answer was a solid maybe. He expressed a hope to jump back into the role “one day,” but he has not been asked back. He said, “Maybe a holiday episode one day, but in the meantime, I like getting to sit back, and they don’t make me work. I like to sit back and watch it as a fan, too.“
Armitage’s episode of Ghosts will premiere on April 16, 2026, at 8:30 p.m. EST on CBS, and it can be streamed on Paramount+ the next day.
- Birthdate
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July 15, 2008
- Birthplace
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Georgia, USA