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CBS’ 2012-13 Schedule: ‘Two & Half Men’ Moves To Thursday, ‘Mentalist’ To Sunday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 5:44am PDTTags: 2 Broke Girls, CBS, The Mentalist, Two and a Half Men
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CBS 2012 UpfrontsEvery year, CBS goes for a couple of major scheduling moves in anchor slots. This year, it is 2 Broke Girls moving to the tentpole Monday 9 PM position after breaking out at 8:30 PM this season. After seven seasons in the Monday 9 PM slot, Two And A Half Men is moving to the Thursday 8:30 slot behind The Big Bang Theory. That is a role-reversal for the two comedies as Big Bang grew into a hit behind Men on Monday. The 2 Broke Girls move reflects CBS’ strategy to support “shows that have momentum, trying to catch them on the way up,” CBS’ scheduling guru Kelly Kahl said at the network’s press breakfast. As for sending Men to Thursday, “we’ve created a super comedy hour,” Kahl said. Men was brought over because the network had difficulty finding a show as broad as Big Bang for the 8:30 PM slot to create flow on the night and help 9 PM drama Person Of Interest grow.

Kahl took a snipe at ABC, NBC and Fox, which all scheduled single-camera comedies in the Tuesday 9 PM hour, calling the pileup “a comedy Sigalert”. “It’s good to have a drama there,” he said of CBS, which is sticking with NCIS: LA in the slot. CBS’ entertainment president Nina Tassler said it was a toss-up decision which CSI spinoff to cancel, which ultimately came down to whose slot the network found more suitable for The Mentalist as it didn’t want to have any of the veteran CSIs change nights again. “It was about keeping the flow, and Miami was the odd man out,” she said. As for veteran comedy Rules Of Engagement, “we’re still discussing it, no decision has been made,” Tassler said.

Related: CBS Update: ‘Rules Of Engagement’ Talks Down To The Wire, ‘Mentalist’ On The Move

CBS is introducing four new shows in the fall: comedy Partners and dramas Vegas, Elementary and Made In Jersey. The strategy was “protecting our new shows, with all of them having hits in front of them,” Kahl said. Partners follows How I Met Your Mother on Monday, Vegas is behind NCIS: LA on Tuesday, Elementary behind Person of Interest on Thursday and Made In Jersey behind CSI: NY on Friday.

Here’s the CBS 2012-2013 schedule:
(N=New, NT=New Time)

MONDAY

8 PM  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

8:30 PM  PARTNERS (N)

9 PM  2 BROKE GIRLS (NT)

9:30 PM MIKE & MOLLY

10 PM  HAWAII FIVE-0

TUESDAY

8 PM  NCIS

9 PM NCIS: LOS ANGELES

10 PM VEGAS (N)

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‘Two & A Half Men’ Renewed For Season 10

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday May 12, 2012 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: CBS, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

CBS’ Two And A Half Men has been officially renewed for next season, the veteran comedy’s tenth, after the network has completed a new license fee agreement with series producer Warner Bros. TV. It came after the network closed … Read More »

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‘Two And A Half Men’ Co-Showrunner Lee Aronsohn Steps Down, Don Reo & Jim Patterson To Replace Him

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 1, 2012 @ 2:30pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Don Reo, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Two And A Half Men, whose renewal by CBS is now a formality after stars Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones all have reached deals in principal to return, is reshuffling the showrunner deck for Season 10. Executive producer Lee Arohnson, who co-created Men with Chuck Lorre and has been co-running the series with him for the past nine seasons, is stepping down. Serving as co-showrunners alongside Lorre next season will be sitcom veterans Don Reo and Jim Patterson, who have served as executive producers on Two And A Half Men this season. Another Men executive producer, Eddie Gorodetsky, will continue in its dual capacity as executive producer on Two And A Half Men and consulting producer on one of Lorre’s other two CBS comedy series, The Big Bang Theory. Going forward, Aronsohn will serve as an executive consultant.

Related: ‘2.5 Men’s Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer And Angus T. Jones Set To Return Next Season

UTA-repped Patterson has been on Men since Season 2, rising through the ranks to executive producer this season. Paradigm-repped Reo, who previously co-created and ran ABC’s sitcom My Wife And Kids, served as a consulting producer on Men last season before joining full-time as executive producer this season. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Posts First Monday Night Demo Win Against ‘The Voice’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 1, 2012 @ 10:09am PDTTags: CBS, The Voice, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Two And A Half Men‘s first demo victory over NBC’s The Voice two weeks ago was not a fluke. In the two shows’ followup original-to-original face-off last night, Men (3.7/9 in adults 18-49 vs. 3.5/9 for The Voice) won again, this time by a wider margin. Men, which featured Kathy Bates as Charlie Harper’s ghost, was even with the fast nationals for its last new episode two weeks ago (down a tenth from the final), while The Voice was down 5% from its fast national last week (8% from the final) to hit a performance show low. There were two other firsts for CBS last night. Rookie 2 Broke Girls (3.5/9) tied The Voice for the first time and CBS finished No.1 on the night in 18-49 with regularly scheduled programming for the first time since The Voice launched on Monday after the Super Bowl. Read More »

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‘2.5 Men’s Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer And Angus T. Jones Set To Return Next Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 1, 2012 @ 8:16am PDTTags: Angus T. Jones, Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Two And A Half Men Contracts CBSEXCLUSIVE: The leading men of CBS‘ veteran comedy Two And A Half Men are staying put. I’ve learned that Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones, whose contracts were up at the end of this season, are inches away from an agreement in principal for new one-year deals that will bring them back for next season — the series 10th and second with Kutcher as the star after he replaced Charlie Sheen. Word is that the trio are returning at their current salaries, with all three getting signing bonuses. Kutcher is believed to be earning about $700,000 per episode, Cryer a bit less and Jones $300,000 an episode. Jones’ bonus at the last contract re-upping was $500,000.

Related: ‘Two And A Half Men’ Update: Deal With Ashton Kutcher “Will Be Done” In Time Read More »

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Charlie Sheen Acts Up For Marty Singer

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday April 18, 2012 @ 9:38pm PDTTags: Anger Management, Charlie Sheen, Marty Singer, Two and a Half Men

Keeping it classy, Charlie. Sheen made a ‘surprise’ appearance tonight as the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Entertainment Law Section honored Marty Singer as its Entertainment Lawyer Of The Year. Singer, of course, represented Sheen during the legal war with Warner Bros and executive producer Chuck Lorre over the actor’s messy exit from the hit CBS TV series Two And A Half Men. Alluding to that battle, Sheen claimed onstage, “I never screwed any hooker as hard as Marty screwed Warner Brothers. I got a 100 million reasons to say thank you to Marty.” Sheen then stopped and assured the Lavely & Singer litigator, “Marty, I didn’t write this shit.” Longtime Singer client Tom Arnold emceed the dinner, whose celeb guests included Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Travolta, Kelly Preston and Dog The Bounty Hunter in person at the Beverly Hills Hotel. William Friedkin and Sharon Stone were guest speakers, as were last year’s honoree Ken Kleinberg and Singer’s daughter Jacqueline. Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Scarlett Johannson, Priscilla Presley, Don Rickles, Paula Abdul and publicists Stan Rosenfield and Paul Bloch appeared in a tribute video to Singer. Earlier in the evening, Jeff Goldblum narrated a video about the history of the BHBA. “Here, tonight, I recognize some of the people I sued,” Singer joked. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Two And A Half Men’ Beats ‘The Voice’ For The First Time

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 17, 2012 @ 10:04am PDTTags: Ratings, Smash, The Voice, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Two And A Half Men TV RatingsIt was another depressing Monday ratings race for the Big 4 networks, with only four series — CBS’ Two And A Half Men, ABC’s Castle and Fox’s House and Bones – holding ground or posting minor improvement. Everyone else was down to a season/series low. That includes NBC, which won the night in adults 18-49. Its flagship series, The Voice (3.6/10), fell 8% from last week’s fast national for its sixth consecutive Monday decline to a new performance show low. The singing reality series also surrendered the top 18-49 spot on the night for the first time against regular competition, edged by veteran CBS comedy Two And A Half Men (3.7/9). The introduction of Uma Thurman didn’t help Smash (1.9/5), which was down 10% from its fast national last week to a new series low. (The musical drama has been adjusted down in the finals for the last three weeks.) Read More »

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‘Two And A Half Men’ Update: Deal With Ashton Kutcher “Will Be Done” In Time

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 11, 2012 @ 5:50pm PDTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Big Deals TV, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

After the Two And A Half Men renewal went down to the wire the last two years as the show raced against the clock to lock in its leading man, first Charlie Sheen, then his replacement Ashton Kutcher, things may … Read More »

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Kathy Bates To Play The Ghost Of Charlie Harper On CBS’ ‘Two And A Half Men’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 19, 2012 @ 5:45pm PDTTags: Kathy Bates, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Kathy Bates already took over a role written for a man once when she was cast as the lead on David E. Kelley’s NBC dramedy Harry’s Law. Now she will portray the ghost of a man on another series. The … Read More »

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’2.5 Men’ Producers & Stars On Renewal, Ashton Kutcher’s Return, Jake’s Graduation

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday March 12, 2012 @ 10:22pm PDTTags: Two and a Half Men

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage

At tonight’s PaleyFest panel on Two And A Half Men, co-creators/executive producers Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn and star Ashton Kutcher wouldn’t give a straight answer as to whether Kutcher … Read More »

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Charlie Sheen Resumes ‘Two & Half Men’ Insults; Should FX & Lionsgate Worry?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 11:24am PSTTags: Anger Management, Charlie Sheen, FX, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE, TUESDAY AM: After skewering his old show Two And A Half Men with a barrage of insults last week, Charlie Sheen pulled back today but just a little. Sheen posted on his website a letter to his replacement on Men, Ashton Kutcher, apologizing for telling him he sucked. But Sheen refused to take back his comments that Men has become “a steaming pile of ass” with “bad writing.” Here is Sheen’s letter signed as his now-deceased Men character Charlie Harper.

Dear Ashton-
My bad.
I was disrespectful to a man doing his best.
I got excited and threw you into a crossfire.
The rest of my statement I stand behind.
You, however, deserve better.
Safety in your travels good sir.
- The “late” Charlie Harper

PREVIOUS, FRIDAY PM: Just as his new show, Anger Management, is gearing for production on its initial 10-episode order from FX, its star/producer Charlie Sheen embarked on the type of verbal rampage that got him in trouble with his previous employer Warner Bros. TV and ultimately got him fired from his previous show, CBS’ Two And A Half Men. Over the past 2 days, Sheen dropped the Mr. Nice Guy persona he had cultivated since he signed on for Anger Management last summer to return to his infamous warlock days. Read More »

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Chuck Lorre Was Very Close To Ending ‘Men’, Ashton Kutcher Wants To Stay On, There Was No Lorre-Sheen Feud: TCA

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 10:19am PSTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Chuck Lorre, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Walden Schmidt is dropping the beard and getting a haircut. That was one of the headlines from TCA’s Two And A Half Men session this morning, which featured star Ashton Kutcher with a new clean-cut look. The onscreen transformation will happen on the show’s upcoming episode Monday.

During the panel, co-creator Chuck Lorre talked about how close he came to ending Two And A Half Men after the controversial exit of original star Charlie Sheen. “We absolutely considered it,” he said. “We never imagined we would be in a position to consider it any other way. It looked as slightly impossible and ridiculous thing to do.” Eventually, he and co-creator Lee Aronsohn opened up to the possibility of continuing the show with another star. “We thought if we fail, no one will be psychically harmed. It seemed like such a heartbreaking way to end (the show).”

Kutcher, whose deal is up at the end of the season, was asked about the prospect of him continuing on the show next fall. “The deal we structured was kinda a test deal,” he said. “The show is outperforming the numbers from before I was here, and I think people are responding to it. For me having a show people like and want more of will dictate my decision. Right now I’m looking at (summer) as a hiatus, I have a lot of fun and would love to come back.”

Also at the panel, Aronsohn addressed speculation about the behind-the-scenes fight between Lorre and Sheen, which was fueled by comments during the actor’s rampage last spring. “I never saw it, that was never the case,” Aronsohn said. “Chuck has always been extremely respectful of Charlie, and Charlie has been respectful of Chuck. What has been built up as a feud never existed.” Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Terra Nova’ Inches Up In Finale, ‘Fear Factor’ Drops, ‘Rock Center’ Hits High Against Big ‘MNF’ Game

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 20, 2011 @ 9:23am PSTTags: 2 Broke Girls, Terra Nova, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

The two-hour season finale of Fox’s Terra Nova (2.2/6 in adults 18-49, 7.2 million viewers) was up a tenth (5%) among adults 18-49 from last week’s series low and up 4% in total viewers. The performance didn’t boost the prehistoric … Read More »

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Chuck Lorre Wanted To Quit ‘Two And A Half Men’ Over Charlie Sheen’s Insults

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 13, 2011 @ 9:53am PSTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Lorre, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Charlie Sheen’s public rants against Two And A Half Men co-creator Chuck Lorre ultimately got the actor fired from the hit comedy series. But if Lorre had his way, he would’ve left first, … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Strong Relaunch For ‘Fear Factor’, ’2.5 Men’ Hits Season Low

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 13, 2011 @ 9:15am PSTTags: Fear Factor, Rock Center With Brian Williams, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Viewers still love ‘em worms and cockroaches. After a five-year break, NBC’s Fear Factor returned to the schedule last night with ratings the likes of which NBC has not seen in a long while. The gross-out reality series premiered with back-to-back episodes averaging a 3.1 rating/8 share in adults 18-49 (8.7 million total viewers) at 8 PM and a 3.5/8 (8.5 million) at 9 PM. Both hours posted season highs in their time slots, outperforming NBC’s 18-49 season averages by 88% and 106%, respectively. Fear Factor, back with its original producing team and host Joe Rogan, helped struggling newsmagazine Rock Center With Brian Williams (1.1/3, 4 million), which was up 22% from last week to match its series high in 18-49. NBC (2.6/7, 7 million for the night), always dead last on Mondays this fall, finished a competitive second behind CBS (3.6/9, 12 million). Read More »

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Chuck Lorre Reflects On Charlie Sheen Flap In Holiday Card, Gets Mauled By Gorilla

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday December 10, 2011 @ 10:13pm PSTTags: Chuck Lorre, holiday card, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Chuck Lorre’s latest elaborate tongue-in-cheek holiday card makes light of a pretty tough year for the prolific writer-producer. He was the target of public insults as well as a multimillion dollar lawsuit by Charlie Sheen over Two And A Half Men. Then Lorre had to transition the show from Sheen to new … Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: ‘Hawaii’, ‘Charlie Brown’ & Country Awards Up; ‘You Deserve It’ Dives

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 6, 2011 @ 9:40am PSTTags: 2 Broke Girls, Castle, Gossip Girl, Hart of Dixie, Hawaii Five-0, How I Met Your Mother, Mike & Molly, Ratings Rat Race, Rock Center With Brian Williams, The Sing-Off, TV Ratings, Two and a Half Men, Univision, You Deserve It
Nellie Andreeva

Against mostly atypical competition, CBS’ regular Monday lineup dominated every half-hour in its return to originals last night after a week of repeats. ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, a huge draw among total viewers, sucks out (mostly older) audiences from the competition. As they didn’t face Dancing with originals for the first time this season, CBS’ comedies boosted their viewership. How I Met Your Mother (4.5/12 in adults 18-49, 11.7 million total viewers) was up a tenth in the demo vs. two weeks ago and drew its largest audience with a regularly scheduled episode in almost three years. (since January 12, 2009). Rookie 2 Broke Girls (4.6/11, 12.8 million) was flat in 18-49 and logged its largest audience since the premiere, which followed the Ashton Kutcher debut on Two And A Half Men. Speaking of Men (5.0/12, 15 million), it was down two tenths in 18-49 from its last original, while Mike & Molly (4.2/10, 12.8 million) was even. Men ranked as the top program of the night in 18-49 and total viewers, as did CBS as a network. The net’s wins were solidified by Hawaii Five-0‘s 3.0/8 in 18-49, up 7%, and 10.8 million total viewers. In the 10 PM hour, the CBS procedural easily topped ABC’s Castle (2.0/5, 8 million), which was down 13% from its last original two weeks ago to hit a season low. Castle was hurt by its underwhelming lead-in, new game show You Deserve It (1.0/2), which continued its rapid ratings descent, down 29% from last week. ABC’s best ratings came from the holiday specials in the 8 PM hour: A Charlie Brown Christmas (2.8/8, 9.1 million) was up 8% from last year’s telecast in 18-49, while Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice (2.2/6, 7 million) was even with its premiere last year. Read More »

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Les Moonves On Charlie Sheen ‘Two And A Half Men’ Debacle: ‘Shit Happens’

By RAY RICHMOND | Thursday November 17, 2011 @ 4:41pm PSTTags: CBS, HRTS Newsmaker Luncheon, Les Moonves, Networks, Television, Two and a Half Men

CBS Corp. President and CEO Leslie Moonves this afternoon addressed what went down with Charlie Sheen on the CBS hit Two and a Half Men earlier this year by issuing this easily-understandable two-word assessment: “Shit happens.” Featured in conversation at the Hollywood Radio and Television Society Newsmaker Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Moonves elaborated that what happened to the show was “unfortunate” and “wasn’t fun. There’s no good when there are lawyers involved with a television show.” But he is encouraged to find that Men’s ratings are up from what they were a year ago with Ashton Kutcher having replaced Sheen in the cast. He added, “I’m happy that Charlie has a show with a very good showrunner and a very good studio in Lionsgate. We wish him well. We’re more than happy with how well Ashton has done other than his comments about Penn State (condemning via Twitter the firing of head coach Joe Paterno). But I’m glad (Two and a Half Men) is a chapter that’s closing, and with these numbers I’m hoping this show will last for many, many years.” Moonves wouldn’t commit, however, to a multi-year renewal of the show going forward.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Series & NBC’s ‘Rock Center’ Rise, Fox Dramas Slide

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 9:39am PSTTags: 2 Broke Girls, 20/20, Dancing With The Stars, Hawaii Five-0, House, How I Met Your Mother, Mike & Molly, Monday Night Football, Ratings Rat Race, Rock Center With Brian Williams, Terra Nova, The Sing-Off, TV Ratings, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

CBS’ Monday lineup posted across-the-board gains for a second straight week. How I Met Your Mother (4.5/12 in adults 18-49, 10.4 million total viewers) was up a tenth in 18-49 from last Monday, 2 Broke Girls (4.8/12, 11.7 million) was up 7% from its fast national last week to post its best 18-49 rating in the 8:30 PM slot, Two And A Half Men (5.3/12, 14.6 million) was up 4% to once again rank as the top program of the night in 18-49, and Mike & Molly (4.4/10, 12.2 million) was up 5%. Hawaii Five-0 (3.3/8, 11.5 million) flourished without scripted broadcast competition in the 10 PM hour, up 10% in the demo from its fast national last week to post its best demo and total viewer number since the season premiere. Hawaii will likely tie its season-high opener in the finals if it’s adjusted up a tenth as it normally is. CBS (4.2/10, 12 million) easily won the night in 18-49.

NBC’s Rock Center With Brian Williams (1.3/3, 4.5 million) last night boasted the biggest news “get” of the moment, an exclusive interview with former Penn State football coach and accused child molester Jerry Sandusky. The one-on-one with Bob Costas boosted the struggling newsmagazine to its highest rating to date, up 30% from the 1.0 Rock Center posted in its first two weeks. Still, the show was dwarfed in the 10 PM hour by another newsmagazine, ABC’s special edition of 20/20 (2.8/7, 13.4 million) featuring Diane Sawyer’s interview with recovering shooting victim U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, as well as CBS’ Hawaii Five-0. Rock Center also ranked as the lowest-rated program on the Big 4 networks, and its fast national numbers may have been inflated by a local NFL pre-emption in Minneapolis, so an adjustment down is likely. Read More »

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