After years of feuds and scandals, Charlie Sheen is poised to return to TV – backed by his former Two and a Half Males boss.
Deadline reports Charlie Sheen has been solid in ‘king of sitcoms’ Chuck Lorre’s first Max (previously HBO Max) comedy collection, How To Be a Bookie.
Sheen is tipped to have a recurring function within the single-camera comedy, which can star US comic and actor Sebastian Maniscalco.
“A veteran bookie (Maniscalco) struggles to outlive the upcoming legalization of sports activities playing, more and more unstable purchasers, household, co-workers, and a way of life that bounces him round each nook of Los Angeles, excessive and low,” the show’s logline reads.
Lorre will probably be co-writer and government producer, whereas Maniscalco can even be the chief producer.
Sheen’s troubled years
Sheen’s return to TV comes after Lorre famously fired him from Two and a Half Males amid the star’s notorious 2011 meltdown.
Sheen, who led the solid of the wildly profitable sitcom for eight seasons and was reportedly incomes US$1.25 million ($1.86 million) an episode, publicly derided Lorre after Two and a Half Males‘s manufacturing was shut down so Sheen may go into rehab.
A livid Sheen insisted he was cleanand unleashed on Lorre – who has headed exhibits akin to The Massive Bang Concept and Mother – with a bunch of slurs and calling him a “silly, silly little man”.
His Two and a Half Males character was brutally killed off, with Ashton Kutcher introduced in to take his place.
The current turnaround within the duo’s relationship is stunning given simply final 12 months Lorre was reportedly shopping around a sitcom pilot script titled Sex, Drugs and a Sitcombased mostly on Lorre’s expertise engaged on Two and a Half Males with Sheen.
Because the dramatic fallout of his 2011 meltdown, Sheen has change into sober and expressed remorse, whereas attributing his behavior to drugs and testosterone cream.
Sheen went on to star in sitcoms Anger Administration for 100 episodes following his dismissal from Two and a Half Males.
However he continued to courtroom controversy, reportedly firing costar Selma Blair via a text in which he called her a “c–t” – though Sheen claimed Blair was written out as a result of the present was not in regards to the relationship between their two characters.
Sheen additionally bumped into hassle after publicly revealing his HIV-positive status in 2015, with studies rising he had not instructed 25 earlier sexual companions of his prognosis; in 2022 huh settled a lawsuit filed by an ex-partner who claimed the actor knowingly exposed her to HIV.
Since Anger Administration was axed in 2014, Sheen has appeared in exhibits akin to The Goldbergs and flicks together with the 2017 comedy Mad Households.
Neither Sheen nor Lorre have publicly commented on their reported collaboration How To Be a Bookie.
