Which has caused me to watch CBS shows I'd otherwise not watched.
When I first watched Two and a Half Men again I was surprised to see that Jake is no long a half man.
But, more than Jake being all grown up I was surprised at how, well, raunchy an American TV Sit-Com is in 2011.
During the Seinfeld era I was a faithful TV sitcom viewer. When Seinfeld and Friends left the air it was the end of Must See TV for me on Thursdays. And thus the end of watching sitcoms til now.
Two and a Half Men has not been producing new shows ever since Charlie Sheen's hospitalization last month, followed by supposed re-hab. At home.
And now CBS and Warner Bros. Television have halted production of TV's #1 sitcom for the season, due to the "totality of Charlie Sheen's statements, conduct and condition."
The statements being referred to were some bad things Charlie Sheen said about his show's executive producer, Chuck Lorre during a radio interview with someone named Alex Jones.
Charlie Sheen's radio remarks are being compared to Mel Gibson's anti-Semetic rant to a traffic cop.
Charlie compounded his problem, after the CBS decision, by sending an "open letter" to TMZ in which he called Lorre a "contaminated little maggot" among other things.
Charlie also delusionally called on his fans to start a protest movement for him.
At the end of last season Charlie Sheen signed a two year contract that pays him about $1.8 million per episode.
How can someone make that type money doing something fun, like being on a hit sitcom? And then still be so miserable that drugs and alcohol are needed to make you happy?
Or possibly insane.
Sheen made multiple references to violence, calling himself the new sheriff in town, with an "army of assassins."
And that, "If you love with violence and you hate with violence, there's nothing that can be questioned."
Almost $2 million an episode. And insane.
