EXCLUSIVE: CBS Wants Charlie Sheen Back
Posted on Mar 21, 2011 @ 01:40PM
CBS wants Charlie Sheen back on its Two and a Half Men, and they want him back now, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
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The top exec at the Eye network is ready, willing, and able to forgive and forget all of Sheen's recent antics and continue broadcasting the series, with Sheen back in the starring role, a well-placed insider tells us.
According to our source, CBS President and CEO Les Moonves has been speaking directly with top execs at Warner Bros. Television -- the company that produces Men and also fired Sheen.
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Moonves has also spoken directly to 'Men' co-creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre, who has been the target of Sheen's "violent hatred."
Moonves wants a solution that brings Sheen back to the show in a situation everyone can live with.
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"Moonves told Chuck Lorre that he should 'let us handle Charlie'," the source says.
Lorre produces two other huge CBS hits, The Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly. The prolific writer/producer also has several other projects in development for CBS.
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"Moonves wants to get the show back on the air. He's all for it," the insider adds. "He says certain people need to forget anything and everything Charlie's done recently and just move on with the business at hand.
"The core issue is, as he put it, the volatile relationship between Charlie Sheen and Chuck Lorre. He believes that if CBS and Warner Bros. TV honchos can find a way to get Chuck and Charlie to speak again, cooler heads will prevail."
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Discussions about the possibility of bringing Charlie back to Two and a Half Men have been going on in earnest the last couple of days.
As RadarOnline.com has been reporting, the actor was fired earlier this month, with CBS and Warner Bros. TV issuing a statement that "Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen's services" for their hit sitcom.
Since then, in several exclusive interviews with RadarOnline.com, Sheen's spoken about his "winning" attitude, life with his "goddesses" and regularly referred to everyone connected with 'Men' as "trolls."
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He also filed a $100 million lawsuit against Lorre and Warner Bros. TV.
Sheen is now taking his rant on the road, and has 20 concert dates planned, including one at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
It's unclear how far along CBS' Moonves is in convincing the powers at Warner Bros. TV to rehire Charlie or if he'd accept their offer if one is made.
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Posted Thu, 03/24/2011 - 12:06am
charlies got the hammer unless they want to lose the whole show theyll bring him back
Posted Thu, 03/24/2011 - 12:03am
It's just like CBS executives to want him back when they see he's doing fine without them.
Posted Tue, 03/22/2011 - 10:32am
Charlie has a right to live his life how he wants, like it or not this is AMERICA!!!!!! I don't care how he lives his personal life, he's is very entertaining, isn't that what "show business" is about?
Posted Tue, 03/22/2011 - 5:59am
Just saw Charlie on Jimmy Kimmel...sounds like he has a deal going with FOX, wonder if he even wants to go back with MEN.
Posted Tue, 03/22/2011 - 12:02am
Both sides should forgive & forget & no more vanity cards by Chuck Lorre to instigate anything again. YAY! We want Charlie & Two & 1/2 Men back!! Best show on TV. I haven't watched CBS since they took it off the air.
Posted Mon, 03/21/2011 - 10:19pm
Uh, I have a hard time believing this after everything and how this man is acting. Pretty sure CBS hasn't said word one to this man as he zips and zaps all over the place. Why would be come back? I think things have gone a bit too far for that.
Posted Mon, 03/21/2011 - 7:55pm
So bring him back ...but they better not cave into his DEMANDS FOR MORE MONEY OR THEY WILL LOSE THE RESPECT OF EVERYONE THAT WATCHES THAT SHOW. Just sayin' :)
Posted Mon, 03/21/2011 - 3:57pm
They will lose it by even trying ti get him back. Great Les Moonves is showing that he has no spine whatsoever. Charlie is WINNING!
Posted Mon, 03/21/2011 - 4:07pm
If they bring Charlie back I will never watch the show again. Now that I know how sick he is, what he does to women when he's high and the fact that he will not get help is not someone I want to support.
Posted Mon, 03/21/2011 - 2:54pm