NEW YORK – As Charlie Sheen continued to rant on, his bosses at “Two and a Half Men” seemed prepared Friday to move on.
The network’s decision to stop production of television’s most popular sitcom this season — and maybe for good — has multimillion-dollar implications for CBS and producer Warner Bros. Television, but it’s hardly fatal.
The remaining four episodes were scrapped Thursday after Sheen called the show’s executive producer Chuck Lorre a “contaminated little maggot.” Sheen’s remarks were made on a radio program and in a letter posted on the TMZ website. He kept it up Friday, calling Lorre a clown and loser in text messages to ABC’s “Good Morning America” and vowing to show up for work next week.
However, there won’t be any work for him to do, as Sheen’s erratic personal life may finally have killed a job that reportedly pays him $1.8 million an episode. He’s been hospitalized three times in three months, with the production put on hold in January after his most recent hospital stay following a night of frenzied partying. Taping was to resume next week, a plan that blew up Thursday.
“There comes a time when you say, `Enough,’” Jeffrey Stepakoff, a veteran television
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