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CBS cancels remaining Two & a Half Men season

Updated: CBS cancels the remaining season of Charlie Sheen's sitcom. Sheen call Chuck Lorre a "little maggot" and says the show is done "for good."

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It’s war in sitcom land.

Never turn on your producer. Not in public anyway  -especially when they have other sitcoms on the go with the network.

CBS and Warner Bros. have cancelled the remaining season of Two and a Half Men, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The move follow anti-semitic comments from Charlie Sheen about the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre on a radio program Thursday.

A statement from CBS and Warner Bros read:

“Based on the totality of Charlie Sheen’s statements, conduct and condition, CBS and Warner Bros. Television have decided to discontinue production of Two and a Half Men for the remainder of the season.”

During Sheen’s lengthy tirade on the Alex Jones Show, 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.”

Sheen noted that he was told that if he went on “attack” execs would cancel the show.

Later, Sheen told TMZ he “violently hated” Lorre and that he “owned” him.

The drama follows Sheen undergoing rehabilitation and staff being stood down for a month. An earlier report that Sheen had left for a holiday to the Bahamas, despite rehearsals being scheduled for next Tuesday.

This will remain a story to watch. There will likely be major repercussions from the latest incident.

In Australia the sitcom has been shedding viewers, down to 545,000 last night -fourth in its timeslot.

Nine has 5 more new episodes to air.

UPDATE: After the announcement of the series shutdown, Sheen fired off an angry letter to TMZ that read:

“What does this say about Haim Levine after he tried to use his words to judge and attempt to degrade me. I gracefully ignored this folly for 177 shows … I fire back once and this contaminated little maggot can’t handle my power and can’t handle the truth. I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon. Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words — imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists. I urge all my beautiful and loyal fans who embraced this show for almost a decade to walk with me side-by-side as we march up the steps of justice to right this unconscionable wrong. Remember these are my people … not yours…we will continue on together… Charlie Sheen”

UPDATE 26/2: Sheen calls Fox Sports Radio with Pat O’Brien from the Bahamas … where he claimed during the entire 8-year run on Men he felt like “an unwanted relative being given cold coffee at 9pm every night.”

And now that show execs have shut down production on Men for the rest of the season, Sheen believes the show is also done “for good” … saying, “Can you imagine going back into the sludge pit with those knuckleheads at this point? Can you imagine? It would go bad quickly.”

Source: Hollywood Reporter, TMZ

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  1. @Andy – hopefully they won’t lose their jobs. With or without Sheen, CBS will bring the show back next year. It makes far too much money for them to cancel it completely. Even if they lost half their viewers without Sheen on the screen it would still be doing better than a lot of other shows out there.

  3. The thing is whilst I don’t like the show nor Sheen, I feel for all the people involved in working on the show who will lose their jobs as a result of one man’s behaviour. Sheen is selfish and completely irresponsible and reckless. I’m not really sure what his appeal is with people but I suppose some individuals will laugh at just about anything…

  5. saw 1, maybe 2 season 1 episodes, thought it was trash and unfunny and didn’t watch again, about time warner bros pull the plug on the show, becoming a rather expensive headache for all concerned, sheen doesn’t need the work or money, he is a multimillionaire.

  8. Great news!

    Maybe they’ll finally cancel the show completely. If only they would get rid of Amy Farrah Fowler on Big Bang Theory, all would be right with the world (okay, not the world, but at least all would be right with Chuck Lorre’s TV series).

  11. The fact this show has been going for so long is the biggest joke of all… let us all pray this is indeed the end of what is really one of the unfunniest sitcoms of all time!

  13. Wow. What a horrible person. When do we start taking bets on who CBS will bring in to replace Sheen next season?

    I hate to compare it to two far more tragic previous examples but Spin City went on after Michael J. Fox left (with Sheen, of all people) and 8 Simple Rules continued after John Ritter passed away, so it’s almost a gaurantee the biggest sitcom on television will be back with or without their giant liability of a star, for one more season at least.

  15. It makes me so angry when people refer to Sheen as a “bad boy” (I’m looking at you, Channel 9 promos). Violently assaulting multiple wives and girlfriends does not make you a bad boy, it makes you a criminal piece of sh*t that belongs behind bars.

    Probably the only people that will suffer from this are the rest of the cast and crew. It is appalling television anyway.

  19. He’s been given far too many chances. Either cancel the show or fire him and recast. This irresponsible, drug hoovering misogynist needs to made an example of.

  23. I found the first season to be mildly amusing, but not enough to watch any further. I still can’t fathom its ongoing popularity. I will not mourn its complete (and seemingly inevitable) cancellation.

  24. Who here reckons the type of work you do affects your behaviour?

    2 and a half men has always been outrageous, why are we shocked when charlie does stupid things!

    Money see Money Do

    Matt

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