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  • Charlie Sheen Wants to Return to ‘Two and a Half Men’

    Charlie Harper may rise from the dead on Two and a Half Men.

    Charlie Sheen has reached out to the Two and a Half Men production team about ressurrecting his role as Charlie Harper. Sheen was imfamously fired from the show after he did a series of interviews attacking the series’ creator, Chuck Lorre, and the people who control CBS Network and Warner Bros. Sheen hopes to put the bad blood behind them, at least briefly, to reward long time fans of Two and a Half Men by bringing his character back to it.

    Two and a Half Men approaches its final season next month; the series ran for 12 seasons (from 2003-2015). The show originally revolved around Alan (played by Jon Cryer) and his son Jake (played by Angus T. Jones) moving in with Alan’s playboy older brother, Charlie. After Sheen was fired from the series in 2011, the show rebranded itself by becoming a show about Alan and Waldon Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher), a millionaire who buys Charlie’s old estate.

    Sheen told TVGuide exclusively that he was interested in revising his role for the final season. He said that, “I’ve reached out to them and they’ve reached back,” Sheen stated. He continuned on to say, “We’re trying to figure out what makes the most sense. If they figure it out like I’ve presented it to them and they want to include me in some final send-off, I’m available and I’m showing up early. If not, it’s on them.” An insider told the magazine that no one at Two and a Half Men contacted Sheen, and that they may not take his request seriously. He has expressed interest before about reprising his Two and a Half Men role. TV Guide’s insider also doesn’t believe that Sheen will return as Charlie, but they didn’t rule out the possibility.

    Last year, Sheen attempted to publicly make amends with Lorre by sending out a tweet directed at him, despite his lack of a Twitter presence.


    Two and a Half Men‘s final season premieres on October 30. Sheen is currently filming some new episodes of his FX series Anger Management.

  • The Walking Dead’s Michael Cudlitz’s Reveals Abraham’s Past Mirrors Comics

    The Walking Dead season 4 episode 10, called “Inmates,” introduced a new trio of characters. The main man leading them is Abraham (Michael Cudlitz). Those who exclusively watch The Walking Dead’s television series may be scratching their heads at this character’s introduction. Fans of the comic books know Abraham fairly well, and the trouble he brings.

    TVGuide sat down with Cudlitz to get some insight into Abraham Ford. Many of their questions involved learning his history and personality. Cudlitz revealed that Abraham is very “reactive.” As he put it, “he’s not to be f— with. He will kill you.” According to Cudlitz, Abraham focuses all his attention on getting his mission completed, and puts group bonding aside.

    Abraham views his two companions, Eugene (Josh McDermitt) and Rosita (Christian Serratos), more as necessities to survival and less as friends. “There is safety in numbers. You need people to survive. If you didn’t need people to survive, he would not surround himself with people. Everyone [per]forms a function. If you cannot do your job, you are not needed. Eugene has important information. Eugene needs to be protected to be brought to Washington, D.C,” said Cudlitz about Abraham’s relationship with his travel mates.

    The main question many fans of The Walking Dead want to know is how Cudlitz’s version of Abraham mirrors his comic counterpart. When talking to showrunner Scott Gimple, Cudlitz was informed that “all of your backstory is going to be almost exactly as it was from the comic book as far as what happened before we met him.”

    Even fans unaware of Abraham’s comic book past can assume it probably involves some form of tragic scenario, because in a post-apocalyptic world, no one survives unscarred.

    Watch more of Abraham’s past unfold on next week’s all new episode of The Walking Dead at 9:00pm EST on AMC.

    Image via Michael Cudlitz, Twitter

  • Social Networking Drives TV Ratings

    According to a TV Guide user study, social networking discussion about television shows drives tune-in, loyalty and live viewing ratings. Due to social network impressions, 17% of respondents polled said they became a fan of a particular show, and 31% claimed they continued to watch a program. Twenty seven percent said that they watch more live programming to avoid internet spoilers, up from 20% in 2010. TV Guide queried from it’s over 24 million monthly users.

    Some more detail on the analysis of the user-survey –

    Those who claimed a social networking impression prompted them to begin watching a show cited reasons being that people had good things to say about it (76%), topics were interesting (64%) and 13% claimed that they just like to watch shows that others are watching. When asked about why they were continuing to watch a particular show, 77% said that social networking impressions helped maintain their interest, 66% cited topics and storylines again and 34% mentioned controversial moments.

    The complete results of the survey conducted in February will be presented by TVGuide.com at Hill Holliday’s TVnext Summit in Boston on Monday. TV Guide has stated that their findings came from the survey of 3,041 users.

    Somewhat on-topic – in France, one can’t even mention the words “Facebook” or “Twitter” in a TV show.