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It’s official: The Drew Carey Show creator Bruce Helford will guide Charlie Sheen in his return to series television with Anger Management. I’ve learned that Helford has closed his deal with Lionsgate TV to come on board the project as writer/executive producer/showrunner. Helford, who has created two successful sitcom starring vehicles in the past — ABC’s Drew Carey and George Lopez — was one of several veteran showrunners that Sheen met with and someone the actor connected with right away. Based on the 2003 Jack Nicholson-Adam Sandler movie about a mild-mannered man (Sandler) ordered to attend group anger-management sessions led by a volatile therapist (Nicholson), Anger Management will star Sheen as an updated version of Nicholson’s character. The project is being produced by Lionsgate TV, Joe Roth’s Revolution Studios and Sheen manager Mark Burg’s production company Evolution Management.
With Helford officially locked in and Sheen’s legal spat with Warner Bros. TV over his firing from Two and a Half Men heading to a settlement, Lionsgate and its subsidiary Debmar-Mercury, which is distributing the series, are expected to take out the show to potential buyers within the next week to take advantage of Sheen’s renewed popularity coming off his highly rated Comedy Central roast.
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here’s a thought, just have Charlie star in Eastdown and Bound 2.0?
Interesting. I’m now wondering how much his Major League character inspired that show.
THAT is a decade past being a good idea. Next?
If I was Sheen, my only demand of Helford would have been to shave that stupid soul patch thing. Oh, and to write way, way smarter than George Lopez.
When are we going to start giving some much-deserved attention to that bottom lip-stache that Helford is rocking up there?
Sweet Googly-Moogly!
WINNING!!! hahahaha! As much as he can be a fuck up, he truly is entertaining to watch.
Helford’s hirsute faux pas aside, The Drew Carey show created a weird, yet believable world, and by staying true to that world created a solid product that had some longevity and quality (unlike, say, “The John LaRouquette Show” which changed tone every year in a desperate attempt to keep its ratings). It’s possible that Helford can do the same thing for Anger Management. The wild card, of course, being Sheen, who has an entirely different professional persona than Drew Carey.
It can’t be any worse than the Anger Mgmt movie. Man, did that blow chunks!
Gadzooks, Charlie LOOKS like an addict in that picture up there… hollow-eyed, drawn and haggard. All the money in the world isn’t going to help him.. Hope he gets it together.
Yes, cool and good and i am really looking forward to watch this new sitcom, now let’s hope they sell it to a cable network in order to be more free and creative..it could be really good with some good writing, the movie sucked (even with the great Jack Nicholson) but i think Charlie with a talented showrunner can do something good with it. We will see, i just know that i will watch at least the first epi..and if writing is good i am totally in !
WINNING!
Congrats Bruce.
The timing of this makes me wonder if one of Helford’s demands was that Charlie do this recent promo/apology tour?
I LIKE ALL THE SHOWS BRUCE HELFORD HAS BEEN ASOCIATED WITH. I WAS TELLING MY FRIEND LAURA THAT WHEN CHARLIE SHEEN HAD HIS DIFF. WITH HIS SHOW 2 1/2 MEN, HE SHOULD DO A SERIES LIKE ANGER MANAGEMENT. IT MAKES TOTAL SENSE TO ME THAT MR. HELFORD BE AT THE HEAD OF THIS SHOW. I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE FIRST A ALL THE NEW SERIES.