“After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on ‘Two and a Half Men’ effective immediately,” program makers Warner Bros. Television said in a statement.
Sheen, 45, is the highest-paid actor on U.S. television and “Two and A Half Men” is the most popular comedy for CBS.
But the remainder of the current season was canceled 10 days ago after Sheen called producer and co-creatorChuck Lorre a “clown” and a “stupid, stupid little man.”
The actor followed up with a week of rambling, sometimes manic, TV and radio interviews boasting that he is “winning” and has “tiger blood”, while insisting he is drug-free and sober after a period of rehabilitation in January.
Sheen, who had a contract through May 2012, shrugged off Monday’s firing with a mixture of nonchalance and jibes.
