
3rd UPDATE SUNDAY PM: Well, there were no promos for the Charlie Sheen interview during the actual Oscar ceremony. They aired during the Red Carpet coverage and after the credits. That is outside of the area where the Academy has a say.
2nd UPDATE SUNDAY AM: According to ABC, there will be promos for the Charlie Sheen interview during the Oscar telecast after all, two of them.
UPDATE Saturday 9 PM: ABC just landed the hottest TV interview of the moment, a sitdown with troubled Two And A Half Men star Charlie Sheen, to air on Good Morning America and as a primetime special next week. The timing couldn’t be more perfect because ABC’s biggest promotional platform, the Academy Awards, airs tomorrow night. But there may be no trace of a promo for the interview during the awards telecast. I hear there is behind-the-scenes fighting between ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences over airing promos for the Charlie Sheen interview during the Oscar broadcast.
GMA executives in New York are particularly upset and have been complaining about the situation. “They have the ‘get’ of a lifetime but the Academy won’t let them promo it on the Oscars,” one insider said. Word is the Academy controls or has a say in everything that airs during the Oscar broadcast, including promos for ABC programming. And Academy bigiwigs feel a tabloid fixture like Sheen may not a good fit for the film industry’s biggest night.
Meanwhile, I hear ABC has been protecting the footage of the interview like a nuclear secret. It was transferred from Los Angeles to New York under a code name. Conducted at Sheen’s private gym with his trainer present, the interview shows a very buff Sheen who boasts about his physical shape. He admis to taking great amounts of cocaine but claims he can quit his addiction on command and that he was clean during the interview. Sheen also continued his verbal assault on Two And A Half Men co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre. ABC News correspondent Andrea Canning landed the interview because of a long history of text exchanges with Sheen. She was on GMA earlier this week discussing her most recent conversation with Sheen via text.
PREVIOUS: After a slew of radio interviews, troubled Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen is taking his rants to TV, taping an interview with ABC News’ Andrea Canning. The interview will air as a special one-hour edition of 20/20 at 10 PM on Tuesday and will also be milked daily on Good Morning America and ABC News’ Website.
From ABC News’ announcement today, it seems like we’ll hear more of the same – Sheen explaining why he is attacking CBS, Two and a Half Men co-creator/showrunner Chuck Lorre and studio Warner Bros. The actor also is sticking to his claim that he is 100% clean and plans to show up for work next week despite the fact that CBS on Thursday shut down production of Two and a Half Men for the rest of the season.
ABC landing the Sheen interview is not surprising. While he stuck mainly with syndicated radio shows, TMZ and Radar, ABC News was the only news outlet to do an interview with the actor over the past week, a text message exchange also credited to Canning. (And we can safely assume CBS News did not pursue a sitdown with the star.)
The interview, which is bound to improve ABC’s languishing ratings in the Tuesday 10 PM slot, marks Sheen’s return to the network that gave him a start as a sitcom star on Spin City where he replaced Parkinson’s-stricken Michael J. Fox.
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awesome, Sheen is my hero
NOTHING pleases me more than watching that self-righteous, sanctimonious, progressive icon, Martin Sheen shamed by the fruit of his loins on a now DAILY basis. Ahhhh, sweet bliss.
Have a chocolate milkshake sometime. Or try sex.
Because if schadenfreude over an actor is the best you can do for pleasure, man, you’re missing out.
lmao, good response Kurt.
You rock, Kurt!
More proof that Kurt Busiek wins every comment thread he shows up in no matter where it is on the internet.
maybe he should read comic books written for bloated 30 year old adolescents instead
Yeah, because a weekly half-hour (including ads) is sooooo much more mature.
What is schadenfreude?
What a pathetic thing to say…..or feel.
I feel sorry for the people that have to interact with you.
@taxpayer: All I can say is that you must have a pitiful existence. I feel sorry for you.
If nothing else in this world pleases you more, then you’re a rather pathetic excuse for a person. Really, you’re just sad.
Correction. It’s a tie. It EQUALLY pleases me to watch Carlos & Martin’s apologists foam at the mouth in their defense. Yes. You people are TOO easy. Sweet bliss indeed.
Yes indeed, because of course right-wingers are never self-righteous or sanctimonious. Especially not Glenn Beck. No, never.
What? How the heck did Glenn Beck and Charlie Sheen end up in the same post?
Correction. It’s equally pleases me to watch Carlos and Martin’s apologists foam at the mouth in their defense. You people are TOO easy. Ahhhh, sweet, sweet, bliss indeed.
I agree!!!
Better to burn out!!!
Scotty, set our coordinates for INSTANT DESTRUCTION!!!!
This is the GREATEST thing that EVER happened to T.V. If I ran a network. Which I don’t. If I had the power to Greenlight. Which I will. I would turn Charlie LOOSE! CHARLIE.TV. THAT’S ALL YOU NEED. NO SCRIPT. NO STORY. NO B.S.. JUST CHARLIE. AND HE WILL BE THE BIGGEST DRAW IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION. WEEK AFTER WEEK! LOVE YOU, CHARLES! YOU’RE THE MAN! ROCK ON, MY BROTHER!
Charlie you’re the man! Don’t let these jealous whiners ruin your fun, every last one of them wishes they were you deep down inside.
Typical hypocrite Americans just can’t face the truth that there
are more of your type in America then the truly righteous in the World.
Rock on Charlie, go get them porn babes! Weeeeeeeeee
Anyone who wishes to side with this juvenile delinquent is looking out for scraps…..
Those two honeys are mighty TASTY scraps! Yum!
Charlie is the greatest American of all time!
Charlie,
I’m with you all the way in your effort to stay clean. I’m here to help. Call me anytime day or night. Your Bro in the ‘Bu!
Mr. Malibu
Best trick that #CharlieSheen ever did was to make the world realize that #JonCryer exists. Join to get #Sheen on #SNL: http://tiny.cc/5u7hm
CONFUCIUS SAY: Man who has to pay for friends needs giant bank account.
CBS Executive: “The problem is with Chuck, we call him Chuck because of the number of times he had to visit the bathroom on a daily basis, is that he believes in his own ‘God complex.’ After all, he was ever so tireless around the set with his constant novenas, saying ‘God’ this and ‘God’ that and damning everyone to hell a lot. Peculiar as it may seem however, he was heavily into self flagellation, the poor fellow, as we all know how our Mum’s always said, too much of that would make us go blind……..and he does seem a little blinded right now, but……
…poor delusional Chuck will never learn. He doesn’t realise, that whomever he has in his corner, he’ll be forever picking up the tab. One way or another, his entourage will be from the same wolf pack, undisciplined rabble, hustling for scraps…..
….dear boy……he was lucky he had a career rejuvenation, something Madonna knows a lot about, but he has bitten the hand that feeds him……not terribly smart……but he is on the defensive right now and running off at the mouth…..no wonder an attorney worth his salt always says, “whatever you do, keep your mouth shut”…….
…..Oh well, he will find, all of this is no way to win friends and influence people. He will go down in the history books for something I guess….and it won’t be for his acting skills…..but at least the creative boys and I will have the last laugh…..when we created the title for the show, ‘Two and a Half Men,’ Chuck naturally thought that he was taken for a whole man, when the inside joke was…….he was always regarded as the Half a Man.’
……never mind…..he will always be able to get into Reality TV, which I am guessing he’s achieving right now….that’s about the last step to the grave I hear…….might make a good Snuff Movie!”
I would rather watch paint dry….
It would be a race to see if the paint dried out before Sheen did…
…and my money’s on the paint.
This will get big ratings.
Sad. The media is using/exploiting his illness for ratings. I hope he gets help before he dies.
Media exploiting illness for ratings???? are you serious? They would exploit ANYTHING! Ratings rule. Everything is about exploitation and ratings! Show biz baby! What it is, has been and will always be!
Hmmmm…..I guess a swollen head could be regarded as an illness.
He can currently bench press more that you can, turd. Ask his personal trainer who works him out every single morning.
Stop hating Charlie because he rocks and you hate waking up to your face, and flaccid gut, each and every morning.
Worship him all you like, fanboy. Sheen has blown past notoriety to become a total joke in the industry. He’s become a walking punch line with whom nobody will ever again want to work.
Yes, Mr Jam. Well that’s a rather lovely expression you use, my Mother would say, ‘colourful,’ but useless, just exactly how you sound, useless. Bench press, you also ad, hmmm….I guess that is why the boy being discussed here is so incredibly cerebral and why he is acting with such finesse. Hmmmm….I will remember never to give it a go.
Is this whole thing a publicity stunt!
No way. I’m sure his publicist (and everyone else who cares about him) has been begging him to stop talking to the press. Every time he opens his mouth, he digs himself in deeper.
Not for the show, it would have been on CBS not ABC. When Sheen burns a bridge he really torches it.
I will say it again: much of this saga is very well thought out and scripted. Several highly regarded A list actors are following the story with a passionate zeal. Sheen is more Shakespeare than he is Jeff Conway and the level of theatrics will drive season nine for 2HM into the ratings stratosphere.
Who is more retarded 1) Brilliant between the lines
2)Andy
Clue: A@%y
As the shock of watching 911 set in, I wondered if this was a well planned domestic strategy conceived at the highest levels…and, maybe it was…but, that thought is so depressing…as is yours.
If Charlie Sheen is a “well thought out and scripted” process…how fucked up are we to buy it!
It’s Jeff Conaway IDIOT!
Charlie Sheen is the dumbest rock in the box! CBS, WBTV, Mr. Moonves, Mr. Lorrie etc., have been planning since the fiasco on Colorado to rid themselves of Charlie Sheen & Two And Half Men. They knew he wanted to quit back then but convinced him to return for two (2) more years – boy was he played like a Stradivarias! Just look at the last 16 episodes – more correctly the four (4) with Charlie, Alan, Rose & her “husband” “Manny Quinn”. The fourth being shown with Charlies & Rose flying off to Paris for a “lone in” leaving “Manny Quinn” in the “closet”. Rose helped Alan clear up his Ponzi scheem but both Alan & Gordon knew the truth behind “Manny Quinn” What a perfect way to “off” Two And Half Men. Charlie & Rose fly to Paris never to return leaving Alan, Jake, Berta, Lindsay, Judith, Herb and friends having a wonderful life in Malibu. Jake & friends are off to college, lmao, but due “Dumb Arse” movies etc., leaving Alan to do what ever with Lindsay or Judith or? Bottom line is Charlie Sheen you were PLAYED!
Yet he still makes more money, and garnishes more attention in one day, than you will for your entire life.
Crawl back in your failhole and smoke an old penis, loser.
Charlie is a portable A-bomb in your sister’s bung hole. Don’t make him have to detonate.
Yes doc, well with that well thought out, colourful diatribe of yours I can only see why Mr Sheen appeals to you – you’d make great bed mates!
If you judge life only by money and attention, hell yeah, he’s the king. He’s turned himself into a toxic joke and has lost the respect of everyone but loser fan boys and hangers-on, but yeah, he’s got a lot of money. Woo hoo.
Is there a “Hot Shots: Part III” in Charlie’s future ?
If not, there’s always ‘Major League 3′, ‘The Arrival 3′ or ‘Scary Movie 5,6 and maybe 7′
Especially if he dies before it airs.
So does this mean Detroit 1-8-7 won’t air its remaining episodes?
I think we should listen to what he has to say. Still a Charlie fan!
We got bored for a little while ever since the “Conan” NBC drama dried up.
So thanks, Mr. Sheen, for bringing some drama back to the air.
But this can go only one of two ways…
1. Charlie is viewed as a hero for standing up to those “above” him.
2. He’s viewed as a lunatic, spoiled star who makes more in one week than most people make in their entire lives.
#2 can be a killer, Mr. Sheen. People LOVE to take down the rich and famous.
Tuesday’s going to be a big night for ABC.
Let’s see if he appears all sober & well. This interview could determine how the situation plays out.
I think the visual with the crazy words will not be a good thing for him. Not a smart move. I don’t see how he can say he was “wronged” here. He has become a liability. He’s the only one who doesn’t see it.
But many of us have been waiting for him to start reaping what he sows. The show is horrible, mainly because he can not act and is just playing a version of himself.
HE IS TURING INTO AN OLD FOOL. HES FINISHED AS FAR AS I CONCERNED.NEVER LIKED THAT SHOW, TRYED TO WATCH A FEW TIMES,COULD’NT GET PASS THE AWFUL LAUGH TRACK.
Yes, ABC will report on Charlie Sheen’s feud with CBS, but they won’t report on the wars in Iraqnamistan that are costing taxpayers over $10 billion a month, most of which is going into the coffers of corrupt war-profiteering contractors. Because apparently that’s not news.
(Sigh) Yes, but when the ratings for the “Charlie vs. Chuck” show go through the roof, and nobody tunes in to learn about the economic and human costs of Iraq and Afghanistan, is it really the networks who are to blame? RIP Peter Jennings.
Well… not on this site. Did you end up here by accident?
Seems you got the news, so I guess it’s available, you simpering moron. Just so you know, we don’t depend on the three networks to get our national news.
Someone invented the Internet, and now you can get your news in many places.
When Al Jazeera leads their news with Charlie Sheen, then come back here and try again, you brainless never-had-an-original-idea-in-your-entire-life, bleating sheep.
Until then, give the premise you stole from 1985 a rest, We’re tired of laughing at you.
George orwell–1984
Let’s set the record straight as far as TWO AND HALF MEN and CBS goes.
TWO AND A HALF MEN premiered on Monday nights in the 2003-2004 season, following the top ten hit, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND.
To make room for the new show, CBS moved Ted Danson’s BECKER to Wednesday nights. They could have easily just programmed Sheen’s show for that night – and effectively killed it. Instead, they gave it the BEST slot and instantly made it a top 15 series. Left to stand alone, BECKER died.
Two seasons later, RAYMOND went away – and CBS moved 2 1/2 men into the 9 pm drivers seat. They could have shifted KING OF QUEENS to 9 pm and moved 2 1/2 MEN elsewhere on the schedule. But they had the confidence that the show – which had outdrawn RAYMOND in its final year – could drive the night. And they were correct. But once again, CBS could have used the show to “drive” another night, and possibly killed it. They didn’t.
So CBS has basically coddled the series and everybody made a mint, from Charles Levine (Chuck Lorre) down to Carlos Estevez (Charlie Sheen).
If Charlie Sheen is so confident of his drawing power as a sitcom star, he should sign a waiver and let ABC build a new show around him and debut it next September in the Monday 9 pm slot, against a rebuilt 2 1/2 MEN featuring Scott Baio as Charlie Harper, back from Paris with some minor plastic surgery. Anybody want to take bets on the ratings outcome? I didn’t think so.
And let’s not forget that at the time TWO AND A HALF MEN was conceived, John Cryer was seen as TV poison after four flops (FAMOUS TEDDY Z, PARTNERS, GETTING PERSONAL, and THE TROUBLE WITH NORMAL). Sheen was a B level movie star with two seasons carrying Michael J. Fox’s jock on SPIN CITY as his only success in TV. Chuck Lorre, coming off DHARMA AND GREG, was the force behind the show.
Baio would need plastic surgery just to appear younger than 60.
Scott Baio is just as much of a loose cannon as Sheen. If they were going to replace Sheen – which I don’t think they will do – it would be with an actor who isn’t likely to fly off the handle.
Dude… You are one “dumb fuck…” You don’t know a thing about Scott Baio, because if you did, you would realize what a “dumb fuck” you are. My apologize to Nikki for the above words, but the “dumb fuck” needs to be called out…
Cheers and have a nice weekend.
Sorry Scott, didn’t mean to rattle your cage there. I actually don’t have anything against you at all but, let’s face it, you are quite opinionated and are not known for backing down in the face of opposition. Sound familiar? Something tells me that the powers-that-be at CBS would be looking to hire a less controversial replacement.
I agree. Please not Baio.
End the show. The kid isn’t a kid anymore anyway.
I get it. This is more interesting than your average story. But let me start with this: There are a lot of nasty people in the world right now – child molesters, murderers, rapists and dictators, to name but a few – but Charlie is not one of them. Do you know how many people abuse prescription pills and/or alcohol every day in America? Do you know how many families are ravaged and destroyed by average guys who nobody thinks twice about? The reason Charlie is drawing so much fire is because he has the things so many people want – Fame, Fortune, Power – and so he seems ungrateful. But ponder this: when you’re that famous, and still unhappy; when you’re that rich, and still unhappy; when you’re that influential, and still unhappy – it’s precisely THEN that life must feel its emptiest. Case in point: how many lottery winners end up happy? If anything, this man (who by the way has delighted America – and much of the world – for most of his life) should be a wake-up call to us that we might want to seek other things from life – in addition to money and fame, etc. – because it’s empty shit. What if this man is just a good guy who is falling apart inside because it’s all so damn hollow? We don’t need another tragedy. History has enough scapegoats. Right now – today – the world is on the brink. Now more than ever we need to show our humanity. It’s easy to say that it’s a sign of a noble character to be kind to those who are less fortunate; but how we treat those who are more fortunate is just as revealing. Charlie, I hope you turn this shit around. But if you don’t, I won’t be judging you.
to just another guy,
You’re so right. We shouldn’t “judge” a man that repeatedly abuses women and gets arrested for it and then buys his way out of jail. We shouldn’t “judge” a man that blatantly pays for sex, does drugs and spews venom to anyone that disagrees with his lifestyle (that also happens to includes enjoying pornography of young girls).
Clearly, we should let people including young kids, look up to him. There should be no consequences to his behavior. We should simply look the other way from a man that is clearly on the brink of ending his own life whether he admits it or not – not unlike Belushi, Chris Penn, Anna Nicole, Michael Jackson and 100s of thousands of anonymous people.
Come on.
You may enjoy living a passive life, but watching this man is act out is painful and annoying and there is only one way this is going to turn out. And even Sheen knows it. Lashing out like he does in his narcissistic way will not convince me otherwise. When a man complains that his life has never been more boring than when he was sober, well……….tick tock, only a matter of time until he starts using again. The body can only take too much.
Amen. People act like all he’s done is run his mouth about somebody else. That’s the LEAST of the things he’s done; it just happens to be the only thing he’s actually going to end up in trouble for.
Right. I guess Charlie should just “do the right thing” and marry an ex hooker who will give him two kids then shoot him and herself in the head.
Speaking of hookers, what’s the difference between a 5K a night hooker, and some plastic surgery bitch hanging out at some high-end LA club trolling for millionaires? Nothing. Yet this city is filled with middle-aged men, their young trophy wives, and a divorce on the horizon in which the half-wit bimbo takes half of what the man owns.
I’m looking at YOU Kelsey Grammar.
You’re just talking shit about the way Charlie organizes his life. You can’t moralize, because EVERYbody in LA who has the money, or will marry to get to the money, is DOING IT!
One thing those of you posting here criticizing Charlie should remember is he’s not sitting at his computer in a comments section posting shit about YOUR lives because HE HAS a life, a great life, and he doesn’t care in the LEAST about the trainwreck you call “YOUR LIFE.”
Think about it, you massive heap of failures. You must enjoy living like shit, or you wouldn’t be wasting time posting shit about Charlie, you’d be making plans to improve your own boring lives.
Right?
Hey, Dr Phil, just an observation: You’re also sitting at your computer in a comment section criticizing someone. What does that make you? Classic.
ABC would stoop this low just for ratings.
Why aren’t the FBI catching the Drug Cartel that are preying on these actors ? And is Charlie the asshole here ? I had heard that he wanted to have input into his character and make the series more moral but the producers refused , and that’s what caused the fallout .
*Sheen* asking to make the series “more moral”?! You’ve probably given Chuck Lorre the only good laugh he’s had since this whole debacle began.
Did he ask for the show to be more moral before or after he put a knife to his wife’s throat?
Hey, don’t judge Charlie’s behavior of the set. He can say, act, do whatever he likes. That is called personal freedom. Yes, Charlie is very opinionated but at least he takes chances, shakes things up, isn’t a yes man. When was the last time you spoke up to your boss? I wouldn’t say he is my hero. but he is pissed off at certain people, CBS, which has a bottomless pit of money and think they can control everything.If he really wanted to have a loose mouth about what he knows about the industry, certain people, many would get hurt.Re. Drugs, this is Charley and we have known it for years. Give it to CBS Charley and stay healthy!
Steve how is it that you can completely ignore the fact that Charlie has abused more than one woman?
I think shooting his fiance in the arm (smart gal she left him right after that) and then some years later building up to straddling his wife, using his full body weight to hold her down and putting a knife to her throat while threatening to have her taken out by ex-police friends who will make sure they never find her body, is an indication that this is not a man ANYBODY with any common sense should be defending. One can only assume some boss somewhere ripped you a new one so badly that you’re still festering about it so Charlie seems like a hero to you.
Let me clear this up for you – Charlie is no man’s hero and he’s damn dangerous to women.
And now with his latest media interview Charlie has become the Whitney Houston of television talk shows. What next? An incoherent interview with Diane Sawyer?
Ms. Houston correcting Diane Sawyer’s comment that the tabloids were reporting her crack addiction: “Crack is cheap – I make too much money to mess with crack. We don’t do crack. Crack is whack!” That comment will forever haunt Ms. Houston.
Which of Charlie’s comments do you suppose will become indelibly pressed into our collective minds? Perhaps his earthworm and fire breathing fists comments?
“Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words—imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.”
Or will we most remember…
“I wish him nothing but pain in his silly travels especially if they wind up in my octagon…”
Wind up in my octagon? Is that some sort of code speak for assholes?
Charlie has clearly lost his mind.
Charlie (I can’t believe I’m saying this but…) take Whitney’s advice – crack is whack and coke is for dopes.
HE’S MY HERO!!!
Oh, c’mon. . aim just a little higher. You can do it, girlfriend.
Your self esteem can’t be that low.
Thank you, and well said.
When you personally and repeatedly insult your boss, you are affecting your work. I don’t know many people who could call their employers out in the press over and over and over and still have a job the next day. He has said repeatedly over the past few days that he refuses to ever work again with the people who produce the show. Sounds like a breach of contract to me.
Exactly, SammieB. On top of all that, why should I listen to anyone’s addiction talking? Until he works on himself he’s just another dry drunk shooting off his mouth.
I’m actually disgusted with ABC for giving him a platform, especially when I’d bet good money they wouldn’t even consider assuming the risk of his coming collapse by hiring him for a show.
Is this a good idea? The last troubled celebrity to do a major sit down TV interview was Jay Leno on Oprah. All that did was completely shatter Leno’s nice guy image. About halfway through I decided that I’m never watching this creep again.
I think Charlie should take a break from the limelight and maybe a year from now – when he’s hopefully sober – come back and talk on TV. If nothing else this proves that in home rehab doesn’t work.
lmao!
i hope he brings his fire breathing fists of destruction with him to the interview.
no more sit-com star for you, mr charlie sheen!
do you think your jennifer aniston or something?
lol.
I get sick unto death of people blathering about personal freedom without considering personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions. I have yet to hear him take responsibility for the fallout of anything he’s said and done – it’s always someone else’s fault with him.
He’s interfering with CBS business. Not only a breach of his contract for his show; also inflicting a harm to the entire network.
If he has any kind of honest lawyers they’ll tape his mouth shut or institutionalize him.
Sicco perverted freakshow.