EXCLUSIVE: Producer Killed Charlie Sheen's Plan To Return To Work This Week
Posted on Feb 16, 2011 @ 06:38AM
Charlie Sheen was ready to go back to work on Two and a Half Men this week, but the show's top producer, Chuck Lorre, killed that plan, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
Sheen gave a disjointed interview to Dan Patrick and claimed he returned to work and banged on the door but no one was there. Now, we've learned the truth behind the interview and the show's hiatus.
"Charlie is ready to come back to work now," a source told RadarOnline.com exclusively. "He was going to come back this week, but Chuck Lorre said he doesn't want to start filming again until the end of the month."
That, of course, means a high likelihood that the show will produce fewer episodes than scheduled, leading to a pay cut for many people.
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Lorre's hang up? "He just said, 'I'm not ready,'" the source told RadarOnline.com. "He's one of the biggest producers on TV. He can do whatever he wants. He's like a god at Warner Brothers."
And, yes, the source insists, Sheen is ready to work.
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"Charlie is clean. He's sober. But Chuck's not ready to resume the show and it's all up to Chuck Lorre," the source said. "Charlie will make up all of the episodes.
"In fact if they had let him come back this week, they would have only been one episode behind, because there was a down week scheduled."
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Warner Brothers execs will not overrule Lorre, insists the source. "He's too powerful there," the source told RadarOnline.com. "He gets what he wants.
"And that's why Charlie is not back at work."
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He might be on a power trip with Charlie but the "little people" who will lose pay are the ones that suffer. The longer Charlie waits the better chance of a relapse. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.I'd want to get him while he was sober.
Posted Wed, 02/16/2011 - 5:25pm
Charlie's burned out brain pinging in his 'interview'. The brain cells went the way of the teeth.
Posted Wed, 02/16/2011 - 2:13pm
Charlie is in la-la land, and the producer has decided to stop the roller coaster all of the cast and crew
have been forced to ride by a junkie in denial.
Posted Wed, 02/16/2011 - 1:56pm
I'd love to never see Charlie's face again. He's rotten to the core. Lost Cause Charlie, go away.
Posted Wed, 02/16/2011 - 1:43pm
Sounds like a little bit of punishment to me like look who's really in control, Mr. Harper.
Posted Wed, 02/16/2011 - 10:26am
"Charlie is clean. He's sober." - Whatever! Kudos to you, Mr. Lorre for not allowing this crackhead dictate how YOUR show is run. It's about time someone stood up to that cracked out bully and told him "NO"; a foreign concept to Charlie!
Posted Wed, 02/16/2011 - 10:13am