14 DAY TRIAL // Despite being fired from the show he is considered to have made into the hit it was, Charlie Sheen was one of the first people to say he had high hopes for the new, “improved” version of “Two and a Half Men”with Ashton Kutcher. Not so anymore.
Sheen was fired from the show after getting into a very nasty verbal spat with creator Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros. Bosses.
His character, Charlie Harper, was killed off and replaced by another one, played by the much younger and, according to fans, considerably less funny Ashton Kutcher.
Initially, Sheen rooted for Kutcher and the new version of the show, saying he wanted it to be successful because he was no longer bitter at having been fired.
TMZ paparazzi caught up with him the other day and, as you can see for yourself in the video below, he is now “extremely disappointed” with the direction things are going.
Still, he doesn't believe it's Kutcher's fault that “Men” is alienating fans by the millions from week to another.
“I don't believe the role is cursed,” he says with a smile, taking a long puff on his cigarette.
However, when asked by the paparazzo how he explains the severe dip in ratings the show has registered in recent weeks, Sheen says, “People aren't stupid... not all of them.”
He then adds, “I am extremely disappointed at how producers are handling what I left behind,” most likely referring to how his now-deceased character was treated in the first episodes of the new season.
Sheen isn't the only one to be disappointed in “Two and a Half Men,” as we also informed you a while back.
Loyal fans of once television's most popular sitcom in recent years refuse to watch it anymore: ratings have gone down from 29 million for the season premiere to 17.7 million only a couple of episodes later.
“Men” is still positioned strong in the ratings, but decreasing audiences may mean it no longer has the staying power it has when Sheen was on board, industry insiders point out.
