Tuesday, March 22, 2011

CBS Wants Charlie Sheen Back - Duh, Winning


Fox News - The president and CEO of CBS was working Monday toward bringing disgraced TV star Charlie Sheen back to "Two and a Half Men," RadarOnline reported.  RadarOnline reported. According to a source, Les Moonves was determined to bring the show back and was in discussions with Warner Bros. Television, which produces the show and which fired Sheen earlier this month, in an attempt to rebuild the numerous bridges burned between the ranting actor and the California-based program staff. They included the "Men" co-creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre, who Sheen deemed a "contaminated little maggot" before hitting him with a $100 million lawsuit, and its staff, described by the former movie star as "trolls."


Does Charlie Sheen now go from #Winning to #Won? He must right, this was always the endgame. 

And Charlie basically has to do this right? His pitch count is getting up there, people are growing tired of all those #fastballs and #curveballs he's been tossing out there on Twitter at this point. 

I can't imagine pitching health food products via Tweet is paying the bills to the same tune that $2 million an episode was.  And I know he's got a webcam,  big whoop, I have a 6 month old blog, made about $10 at this point.  The blog business is a cruel one. 

And don't even sell me on his upcoming tour. That has two possible endings. 1) Guy bombs because honestly, what the hell does he have to talk about for an hour and half during a 1 man show? Just ranting and raving like a lunatic? I get that for free watching homeless men entertain for spare change on a Saturday night. 2) He pulls a Michael Richards (Kramer) during one of his shows, tour cancelled and he owes a refund to everyone who bought tickets for the remaining tour.

So yea, best case for everyone is Charlie goes back to work, CBS ratings spike to new highs during the for 6-10 shows that he's back and after that everyone falls back into their normal routine.  12-18 months from now Charlie goes on another bender complete with Hall of Fame Rants and slurs and we're all delighted and entertained once again because it has a fresh feel to it. If there were some place that had odds for such offbeat things I'd put my life savings on it.  It's a lock.

And yea, I'm as sick of writing about Charlie as the rest of you probably are about hearing about him.  But the guy is a traffic monster right now, so bear with me.