CBS Cancels Season for Charlie Sheen Sitcom
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As news of actor Charlie Sheen’s latest erratic behavior surfaced Thursday, CBS took matters into its own hands, pulling the plug on the remainder of the season for Sheen’s sitcom Two and a Half Men.
Actor Charlie Sheen
During a live radio interview Thursday, Sheen blasted the show’s creator, calling him a “turd.” In addition, the unpredictable actor also launched a verbal assault on Thomas Jefferson, labeling the Founding Father a “p***y.”
“Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen’s statements, conduct and condition, CBS and Warner Bros TV have decided to discontinue production of Two and a Half Men for the remainder of the season,” the two companies said in a statement.
The Hollywood Reporter adds:
The move was not unexpected: Before lashing out at Lorre during an interview on the syndicated Alex Jones Show, Sheen said he was told that if he went on “attack” execs would cancel the show.
During Sheen’s lengthy tirade on the program, he repeatedly refered to Lorre as “Chaim Levine,“ and said he spent ”close to the last decade effortlessly and magically” converting Lorre’s “tin can into pure gold.”
Later, Sheen told TMZ he “violently hated” Lorre and that he “owned” him.
Other portions of Sheen’s interview with Alex Jones:
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miles from nowhere
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:10amI wonder what kind of prescription you get for Cocaine Cancer?
Report Post »reckless
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:05amI will go out on a limb and predict that within 18 months Charlie Sheen and Linsey Lohan are “pen” pals. Writing to each other from one penitetiary to another penitentiary.
Report Post »ImahaIngttta
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:05amSanity. And a good decision. Charlie is beyond help at this time. He will fall again and hopfully he will live.
Report Post »Contrarian51
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:04amCharlie, Charlie, Charlie. Even if you don’t mean it, “I’m sorry” always works better than calling someone a turd, especially if that someone can turn the levers on the cash pipeline.
Report Post »The_Outlaw
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:53pmCharlie Sheen is proof positive that; ‘Money can’t buy you class”.
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:48pmHow’s that dumpy kid going to get chicks now? If it comes back, they need to rename it “Two and Three-Quarters Men.”
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:44pm“There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
Report Post »— Hunter S. Thompson
docgreen
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:43pmGreat! Wasn’t he a Progressive or a Liberal Lefty? Like his dad? Never watched it because he’s a piece of Trash!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:38pmi hope he gets well
Report Post »gotea
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:20pmWaste of a funny show. And yes, it was a funny show people.
Report Post »TheRealElvis
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:14pmSix months ago he didn’t know what a putz was, now he is one.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:09pmCharlie is really losing it to much coke and booze and now his mind is mush, I feel sorry for his family and children but not for him.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:52pmi think you‘d agree that it would be nice if he’d change his ways and be a beam of light to others who have destructive habits
Report Post »exliberal2000
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:05pmCome on people. This show was very funny. Like sports stars, I couldn’t care less what these movie actors do with their personal life. Separate the show from the person.
The show commanded a lot of ad dollars. He should be paid well because his acting generated the revenue. Don’t hate like a liberal.
Report Post »Goldenyears22
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:15pmIt could have been funny, but it was so vulgar and gross at times that it was disgusting. I could not watch it, the man lived a life that was very much like the show and why anyone could think that was funny is beyond me. Hopefully he could get over his addiction and sick sexual mind, but maybe he is too far gone and needs to be put in an institution somewhere. CBS has done the world a favor.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 2:28amI think it was funny, too. It’s fiction. Just like Buffy The Vampire Slayer was fiction. If you are looking for reality or some sort of message in a sitcom, you’re a nut.
Report Post »wolverine
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:39amYou know I really don’t give a hoot about Charlie and or the show I just get tired of listening about put the show on and put him a gag on his mouth between takes
Report Post »alikat
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:59pmWhat’s a Charlie Sheen? Very similar to a Lohan, maybe they could share a cell…
Report Post »MyzPhoenyx
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:30amDear Lord no! We do NOT need those two breeding…
Report Post »craiger59
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:57pmAnd this bum was the highest paid actor on TV! Throw him and Lindsay Lohan in the same cell and lose the key.
Report Post »DVPFLA
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:56pmI just hope that some one at CBS is going to make sure the hookers will still get paid.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:53pmThey are union teachers during the day, like Islam.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:56pmI have to wonder why CBS is canceling the show. I mean they haven’t showed much common sense before, especially when reporting the news. (OR THE LACK THEREOF). Is this means that CBS is changing the way it thinks?
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:49pmFrom what I understand Charlie went on a Rampage about the Producer, calling him names and stuff! The Producer, had enough. But if you read the story, they’re saying their canceling the rest of this season! What about Next? The Guy is just a piece of Sh_t! Instead of giving this piece of trash any money, give it to our military and lets take care of True Heroe’s!….
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:10amIt wasn’t the Producer but it was the Creator of the Show! Maybe their the same.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:54pmWho cares……never saw the show. More important things happening in the world requiting attention over a spoiled aging Hollywood BRAT! The Devil (cocaine) has got him by the throat, that’s for sure…..
Report Post »trueblueday
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:52pmA waste of a human being that was paid far too much – and accomplished nothing.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:22pmHe’s a waste of oxygen. I hope he turns his life around. There is still time. Ask Glen…
Report Post »cincyweb
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:51pmHollywood Trash.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:07pmWhat’s funny is just last week he was giving advice to Lindsey Lohan .. you can’t make this stuff up! Talk about the blind leading the blind … either way is a hoot!
Report Post »Djwildcat
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:48pmI was listening to some of that show. He sounded like he was out of his mind.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:10pmHIs daddy (Martin) just did an interview where he compared Charlies problem to having CANCER .. as a cancer survivor I take EXCEPTION to that comparison.
Report Post »mill
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:30pmCATB
Report Post »I agree with you. To survive cancer is a fight, the will to do what you have to do not being a rich brat that really doesn’t care. Brat?,,well , Charlie has never grown up.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:15amHe should have said he is infected with liberalism, now that’s a diesease.
CATB, good for you beating cancer. God Bless.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:23amHe is out of his mind! Try being a parent to such an individual. I have witnessed my own parents pain for a great portion my life. It is like a cancer. There is a treatment, but you can’t force your “child” to receive it. Without treatment, it grows. You can have them involuntarily committed, but that’s only 48 hrs. As a parent, you can’t do anything until they do something atrocious. Then, typically, it’s out of your hands, like the nut job in Tuscon. Here’s a really horrid thought. I wish my brother had cancer instead, because then HE’D want to treat it, too. At least then, he’d have a chance at normalcy. So would my parents. CatB, not making light of cancer. You had a disease you wanted to, and did, defeat. Twist your mind and think it’s part of you, and if you take it away, I won’t be me anymore. That’s mental illness. My brother doesn’t want to be treated, because there is nobody smart enough to treat him.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:11pmI have been wondering if he has Mad Cow disease or a brain tumor. He is not ok in his head.
Report Post »fan-of-glenn
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:47pmclass act all the way charlie! in your words …. you’re a TURD
Report Post »Holy Shiite
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:05pmAs in Sheen puts the “ass” in class?
Report Post »fan-of-glenn
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:43pmshow sucked anyway
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:51pmlol
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:42pmWho cares.
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:10amExactly.
A lot of years ago I kind of admired Charlie Sheen. We actually grew up in the same area of Los Angeles and we are the same age. He was actually ‘Carlos Estevez’ back then. We went to different schools but everyone knew who he was and that he was Martin Sheen’s kid. I’d see him from time to time at school games as we both played baseball for our schools and around town once in awhile. He got all the hottest chicks and was a dog with the women even back then. Then I actually saw him once at a taco shop in Pacific Palisades, CA. He was a total and complete arsehole while he was there. Yelling at the Latino cooks being racist and yelling at the customers like a primadonna beotch because they were in his way or being too noisy or whatever. I didn’t admire him at all after that. It has been interesting watching him ‘grow up’ and in his various acting roles since then though.
Nowadays, Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen are my top two picks in our ‘Under 60 Hollywood Celebrity’ dead pool at our poker night. I’ve had them both for about 5-years since we started our regular poker night. I won the coin toss for first pick and grabbed Lohan immediately. Sheen was just the name that popped in my head on the next round). Every poker night we add a buck or two each to the pot. If they both go within a week of each other I win the entire pot — which amounts to a nice chunk of change now. So far, I feel pretty confident I’ll at least win a portion soon enough. But I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Lohan and Sheen will hook up for a week long coke and alcohol bender in Vegas or something. Then it’s the whole enchilada baby!
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:41pmGood riddance to bad rubbish.
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:44pmDito
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:46pmGlenn Beck predicted that “Two and a Half Men” would be canceled months ago. It’s scary how right he always is.
Holy Shiite
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:50pmVery wise man once say, “Don’t Shiite where you snort.”
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:51pmNever watched the show but what a jerk he is so doped up he doesnt realize what he has done with his recent rant. Not only is he out of work so are the other cast members but more importantly all the ppl that really make that show happen!
The writers, producers, camera & sound people and the list goes on are all out of work now. Yea sure some will get picked up on other shows but many wont! If I worked on that show and am finding this out I would let Sheen have an earful. What a dolt! Wanna stop this junk stop enabling these “stars” STOP watching their tv shows, films, buying their music whatever. They need to be ousted from the spotlight. He is the extreme of all that is going on and we are enabling ppl like him by allowing them to continue in public eye. We need to stop enabling stars, politicians etc who are doing more bad than good to the country.
Report Post »http://www.savingtherepublic.com
WISEPENNY
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:51pmYou’re killing me Broker. LOL
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:51pmHe’s a nobody anyway. could care less about him.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 10:52pmIt’s about time!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:00pmwisepenny…look again, its brokero
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:00pmjust another leftist goon
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:06pmI think the show could have gone on quite nicely without him .. .it is an ensemble show .. and Charlie is the least of it …. Just have a drunk pervert move in next door to play off of if they must. Shows very poor writing if you ask me .. they couldn’t adjust? The rest of the actors on the show .. are what makes it good.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:09pmGood job of ruining a bunch of people’s lives along with your own buddy.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:10pmMr. Sheen has made his living off bad sexual vulgar humor…and apparently NOT a very good guy personally..America should not idolize anyone like this…but yet we do…God have mercy…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:10pmSo what they do is recast Charlies character with their evil female cousin, Rosie O Donnel, it could still be 2 1/2 men
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:16pmhahahahah…..winning?? LMAO!
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:20pmYou can hear the whole show….it was on Alex Jones of all things…crazy!!
http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28/newsdesk/tmz_audio/022411_sheen.mp3
Still “Winning” Chuckles….LMAO
Report Post »mill
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:26pmsome people cannot handle success.
Report Post »he is a weak person. perhaps a stint with no show an no respect will help him
He and lohan can get together and write their memoirs.
..“boozyhollywoodmoney”, not worth spit
rehab at home????
spikebu
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:29pmJust listened to his spiel on Alex Jones. My brother is mentally ill. This guy sounds just like him. He sounds like he’s in the mania phase. He’sontopoftheworldandnothingcandefeathimever! He’s bats in the attic nuts! Pray they get a handle on him before he actually kills someone.
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:50pmNo worries Chuck, Al Bore TV is looking for talent like you. Barry could use a good Czar on how to lose income. Wait he already has 40 of them. Never mind.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:57pm“”Glenn Beck predicted that “Two and a Half Men” would be canceled months ago. It’s scary how right he always is.”"
@broker has your account been hijacked? you used to have posts that were more intelligent and thoughtful .has to much exposure to truth and logic caused your poor weak liberal mind to crack? where has the contrarian question everything broker gone?.. this retarded type trolling is beneath you….. we demand better…
Report Post »JoeBtfsplk
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:00amFunny and Disgusting simultaneously!
Report Post »John_Free
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:48amAs a retired counselor who specialized in Addictions….this is classic denial and it could be deadly for Sheen. He has to hit a bottom at some point, the question is, will he still be alive.
Report Post »brliantedj
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 2:54amJust a thought but have you noticed a pattern among MSM attacking right wing actors? There’s Mel Gibson, Frazier and now Charlie.
Report Post »I get there‘s real problems here but don’t tell me Kim Kardashian is perfect.
Trust me, killing right is their game and sometimes you look through their story.
DashRipRock
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:33am“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”
Hunter Thompson
Report Post »JGP
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:36amPrediction: He’ll be back, the show will be back. Sheen makes 1.5 million per episode. The show gets a bump in ratings whenever Sheen is in the news. CBS makes money. Too much money to be made here. Don’t you know these “rich people” are OK? They’re not like the other rich people the communists hate.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:44amThat’s yer brain on alcohol and drugs … it‘s called ’Charlie Sheen Syndrome.’
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:40amI hadn’t seen your comments. I had thought of writing the same thing when I saw what CBS had done. You beat me to it!
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:50amWell, “Charlie Harper” finally said and did enough outrageous things for CBS to cancel the remaining episodes of Two and A Hlf Men for this season. It will probably be a permanet cancel due to the fact that old Charlie just doesn’t know when or how to shut up.
Report Post »It seems like more than a few actors an actresses let stardom go to their heads in such a way there’s no room for brains. Time for Charlie Boy to snap out of it and detox before he ends up like a lot of other drug and alcohol abusers, on a Los Angeles County morgue slab. What a waste !
Taquoshi
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:22amIt‘s interesting because Sheen seems to think that this is all about him and that he’s in control of his fans and his show. Why not talk to David Caruso, who left NYPD Blue years ago because he thought he was such a megastar? Caruso dropped out of sight like a stone down the proverbial well and stayed there until he was given a second chance on CSI:Miami. I think Caruso learned a lesson.
I‘m not terribly sure that Charlie Sheen’s fans will be so intensely loyal in the long run. They have nothing invested in him while the network does. I can’t see other networks lining up with contracts in hand. The word has gone out, “AVOID, AVOID, AVOID”.
Also it seems that his family were concerned enough to start planning an intervention, and that’s not good news. Having worked in a psych hospital years ago, this type of behavior is a sign that things are not on the upswing, as someone pointed out earlier.
The Hollywood writer’s strike a few years ago really decimated alot of shows because the break was too long and people kind of got on with their lives. LOST never really recovered its momentum and kind of faded into the horizon. Two and a Half may also suffer the same fate.
I feel bad for Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones, because I don’t know what kind of contingency language their contracts contains regarding this situation, but the other crew, like the lighting and sound people are probably used to this type of situation. It happens every year when the new season premieres kick off. Some shows actually survive the season, others get axed before their third episode.
Report Post »mom2my2
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:58amI read a list of Hollywood stars that were born again Christians and Charlie Sheen was on that list. People like him make and witnessing difficult for the rest of us. If I were on the cast or crew of that show, I would start a class action suit against him for lost wages.
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:44pmWhat a waste! Charlie does a great job with his acting, and I have always enjoyed watching him. However, he is making a grave mistake. Does he have any idea how many people have said, “That’s it, I’m done?” Recovery from addiction takes more than that as Charlie will find out, hopefully before he dies or goes to prison. It is sad that he will have to go through the pain, but Charlie doesn’t sound as though he is ready for reality. He doesn’t have the power to do this on his own. Good luck, Charlie.
Report Post »TXMD
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 4:11pmDitto
Report Post »TurnRight
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 5:53pmGood that show should have been canceled years ago!
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:01pmWhere were all you nice supportive people when Glenn was chugging…
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:36pmHe’s got an excellent command of the English language, I’ll have to say. And he’s actually right about AA, in that alcoholism is a choice, not a disease.
He’s had some fine movies, and the sitcom “Two and a Half Men” was a lot of fun. Quite a talented actor, I must say.
But it was when he abused his lates woman, after Denise divorced him for spousal abuse, that it became clear that Charlie Sheen does physically abuse women.
Now, I don’t want to watch anything of his – which is what I think of Chris Brown, too.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:48pm“But it was when he abused his lates woman”
That should have read something like “But it was when his lates woman accused him of spousal abuse, which is what Denise said, too …”
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 5:22pmTo Sinista Mace Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:01pm
Where were all you nice supportive people when Glenn was chugging…
Part of the time that Glenn was busy chugging, I was working in a private psychiatric hospital with a Drug and Alcohol unit.
How about you, Sinsta?
Report Post »VegasLibertarian
Posted on February 27, 2011 at 12:56amI agree as well. Sounds like he’s really angry and he the source of all of his problems. I must add by saying when he goes on and on with all the “Ya knows” and “Bros” and “Bring its”, he sounds quite low brow and a bit illiterate.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 8:44pmI was most likely smoking a nice fatty while studying quantum physics and vortex mathematics.
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