A week after media reports that Charlie Sheen was found half-naked in his trashed New York hotel suite, the actor is back at work on “Two and a Half Men,” a source close to the show has confirmed. Which means his network and studio bosses must be feeling a little jiggy inside.
For a week, the actor’s personal troubles have been front and center in the national news cycle, but that didn’t deter fans from watching him essentially play himself on TV Monday night. Registering 13. 6 million viewers, “Two and a Half Men” was up 7% among viewers ages 18 to 49, leaving Sheen’s rainmaker status intact.
CBS and Warner Bros. Television, which produces the 8-year-old sitcom, have maintained a strict no-comment policy about Sheen and his troubles since he was accused last December of threatening his wife with a knife.