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Winner Winner Sheen Dinner!! 2½ MEN Scores Biggest Rating For Scripted Fare Since 2005!! SHEEN ROAST Fries FIVE-0, CASTLE And Stillborn PLAYBOY!!
Charlie Sheen has singlehandedly saved television!
The first Ashton Kutcher episode of “Two And A Half Men,” which revealed the fate of Sheen’s character, scored an “American Idol”-size audience on Monday. You have to go all the way back to the 2005 season-two season premiere of “Desperate Housewives” to find a better-rated piece of scripted programming. Six years!!
The event was a huge boon to everything airing on CBS Monday night. “How I Met Your Mother” hit its best season premiere number ever, beating even “Monday Night Football.” “2 Broke Girls” opened freakishly huge and “Hawaii Five-0” caught a major rebound.
At the same time basic cable’s “Comedy Central Roast Of Charlie Sheen” crushed everything on broadcast, including “Five-O,” “Castle” and NBC’s “Playboy Club,” which is already begging for cancellation with a 1.6 in the 18-49 demo.
Mondays, Sept. 12-19, 2011
(last week’s scores in parentheses):
10.7(1.2) 2½ Men
7.1 (---) 2 Broke Girls
5.0 (1.2) How I Met Your Mother
4.8 (6.3) MNFootball
4.0 (---) Dancing With The Stars
3.8 (---) Charlie Sheen Roast
3.4 (---) Hawaii Five-0
3.2 (---) Castle
2.6 (2.4) Hell’s Kitchen
1.9 (---) Sing-Off
1.6 (---) Charlie Sheen Roast (r)
1.6 (---) Playboy Club
1.6 (1.4) WWE Entertainment
1.4 (1.5) Pawn Stars
1.2 (0.9) American Chopper
1.0 (---) Roast Pre-Show
0.9 (1.4) American Pickers
0.7 (0.9) Ridiculousness
0.7 (0.7) Basketball Wives LA
0.7 (0.7) Eureka
0.6 (---) Charlie Sheen Roast (r)
0.6 (---) NASCAR Sprint
0.6 (0.6) Warehouse 13
0.5 (---) American Underworld
0.5 (0.5) Alphas
0.5 (0.6) LaLa’s Full Court
0.5 (0.5) Lizard Lick Towing
0.4 (---) Chelsea Lately
0.4 (---) Fashion Police
0.4 (---) H8R
0.4 (0.5) Intervention
0.4 (0.5) TO Show
0.4 (---) World’s Dumbest
0.3 (---) Ringer 
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Sep 21, 2011 12:40:56 AM CDT
The crazy thing is that you thought you could keep your job after calling your boss a Jew ****.
by nathangrey
If people could keep their jobs after calling their boss a Jew ****, then everybody would do it.
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If I never hear the name Charlie Sheen again it'll be too soon.
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"Breaking Bad," "Mad Men," "Boardwalk Empire," "Louie." The list goes on and on. You could fill a station's 24-hour, seven-day schedule with nothing but stellar programming and still have leftover greatness.
Yet "Two and a Half Men" gets the highest ratings since 2005. I just don't get it ... -
That 10.7 wont happen again for that show that's for sure. Unless for some dumb ass reason CS comes back to the show. But who cares I hate that show.
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charlie sheens roast was the highest rated ever??? give me a fucking break
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betcha hes saying that right now!
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Don't watch the show, but based on the reviews these ratings won't last; neither will the show.
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Sep 21, 2011 1:46:55 AM CDT
The first episode was always going to be huge due to the publicity and curiosity factor
by stegman84
Now watch as subsequent episodes drop like a rock, ratings wise.
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Most of these numbers are guesses. Don't understand why people watch these things with so many other options. Hate this system and how it helps suits decide what stays on or not.
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I figured it was going to do well just from a curiousity point of view but if these numbers stick next week I might feel a little sick in my stomach.
At the very least, I'm glad it helped out HIMYM. -
I don't get it either. I thought TV comedies were moving away from multi-camera, laugh track/studio audience sitcoms. But CBS keeps proving me wrong. Where are these huge numbers for NBC's Thursday night lineup?
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:( It probably won't get a second season even though it's done fairly well setting up a mythology this season.
I find myself not caring for a couple of characters though.
Glad HIMYIM is doing well, but it's starting to be a little to much of the same week to week. They need to shake things up a bit. And they definitely need to let loose a few more clues on who the damn Mother is. -
It was announced a couple of weeks back. I get the feeling that they are grooming it for Eureka's slot on the network when that show wraps up in it's final season.
As for Two and a Half Men, it was mediocre before, now it is just god awful. Hopefully it will die now, but I doubt it. The thing is the majoriy of the public embraces mindless mediocrity over anything smart or anything that requires an anounce of brainpower or an attention span in order to follow along. The more generic, disposable, and undemanding the better, or so it seems.
Thank God for cable, where it takes a far smaller audience to make something enough of a hit to keep it viable, and so more complex and less generic shows actually have a chance to survive.
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I keep expecting it to suck. It keeps not sucking.
I don't get it. This is the same network that gives us Eureka and Warehouse 13. This week on Eureka, we had a rogue black hole with the Sherriff managing to run on foot from the event horizon... and Warehouse managed to do a Zombie episode that was even less convincing than the Community Zombie episode.
Alphas on the other hand... it's actually good. It can't last. Siffy is going to have to cancel it. -
I'm almost certain that the mother will end up being John Lithgow's character's daughter who was suspicously missing from a dinner scene with Barney. Also would mean that if she and Ted end up marrying, that would make Ted and Barney "real" bros, which would be fitting considering how important the whole "bro code" thing is to Barney.
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Monday's episode was really no better or worse quality-wise than it was when Sheen was on it.
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Sep 21, 2011 7:10:35 AM CDT
Makes you wonder if the Sheen mess wasn't some Andy Kauffman-like stunt
by boynamedsue
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Sep 21, 2011 7:50:57 AM CDT
Kutcher is still playing the slow doofus from That 70s Show
by blanket-man
I tuned in Monday night with everyone else. It was probably the 3rd or 4th full ep of 2 1/2 Men I've ever watched, and it was pretty painful. An overly enthusiastic studio audience (assuming the laughter wasn't "canned"), who laughed at every crude and obvious joke, just made it that much less bearable. It's hard not to like Jon Cryer, though, so I admit I did laugh once or twice at his lines. I'll probably watch the conclusion next week then be done with the show for another few seasons.
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Sep 21, 2011 9:57:44 AM CDT
Good move for Men putting "to be continued" at the end of the episode
by big jim
Might convince a few viewers who were only going to watch the first episode to tune in again next week for "part 2".
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A few funny moments, but mostly crap. It's the last full episode I'll watch unless CS makes a return.
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...it's to spare addicts the embarrassment of acting crazy in public during their withdrawal. Sheen's previous manic behavior was a phase that most addicts go through in rehab, however in a professional rehab the only people who have to witness that strange behavior are health care professionals working in a secluded medical facility. Since Sheen the narcissist insisted on doing his own public rehab on the internet, the world got to witness every insane megalomaniac moment of him sweating that poison out of his system. And you can tell by his recent contrite interviews that he now is sorry that he made that bad decision.
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Sheen was definitely missing from the show. The center of the show was a boosing ladies man with no moral code. Kutcher's character was just weird.
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Did anybody watch it? Is it any good?
Also, it looks like Victoria on HIMYM has been consuming a few too many of her product. -
period drama doesnt sell...good for them
as for alphas, despite some plot holes and other lapses, it is a pretty good show...mostly thanks to a strong central character (straithern)
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It's dead. I wasn't a huge fan of it with Sheen or anything, but I've watched a reasonable amount of it in syndication. Absolutely nothing groundbreaking or unique about the setup or the writing, but there is admittedly something utterly mesmerizing about Sheen's particular brand of contained insanity, even before all the stuff this spring.
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The producers could have kept their mouths shut and gotten 1 or 2 more seasons out of Charlie before his eventual overdose death. Even the head of CBS muttered lame excuses when TV critics asked him what the network was doing to help Charlie with his "problem". "He shows up for work on time", was the network's excuse for letting Charlie slowly kill himself.
The producers knew they were dooming the show by firing Charlie, but they made a brave decision that literally saved Charlie's life. I doubt that the Hail Mary pass they threw to Ashton Kutcher will save the show, but they deserve recognition for doing the right thing. -
If you truly think the producers give a flying fuck about Charlie Sheen's longterm health, and that they 'fired him out of love' then you're even more gullible than Harry Fucking Knowles...
By the way, it took them six months to come up with that particular excuse too... -
Who was the fuckwit in the comedy Gadaffi outfit.
And Tyson? Are we supposed to laugh at the rape-y-ness?
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