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Two and a Half Men's half-man Angus T. Jones made headlines earlier this week when he called the show "filth" and encouraged people to stop watching it in a testimonial video for a Christian cult, fueling speculation that he'd be leaving the long-running series soon. HuffPo now reports that Jones will probably be departing after the current season, the show's tenth, in which he won't be appearing in every single episode anyways. CBS has yet to renew Two and a Half Men for an eleventh season, but considering how long it's been running and that Angus T. Jonesgate is coming in the wake of ex-star Charlie Sheen's [...]

Ratings

Miley Cyrus Leads CBS to Weekly Ratings Victory Over NBC's Thursday Comedies

by Bradford Evans | October 19th, 2012

It's tradition at this point for CBS's one-two punch of The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men to trounce NBC's chunk of Thursday night sitcoms in the ratings, but this week, CBS had a little help from Miley Cyrus. According to TV By the Numbers, Big Bang scored a 4.7 rating with adults 18-49, up 4% from last week, and Two and a Half Men earned a 4.0, up 14% from last week thanks to a guest spot by Miley Cyrus. NBC's 8pm hour competition, 30 Rock and Up All Night, achieved a 1.3 and a 1.4, respectively, with 30 Rock staying steady from last week's ratings [...]

Lost Roles

The Lost Projects of Chuck Lorre

by Bradford Evans | August 9th, 2012

Chuck Lorre’s name may not inspire the same kind of admiration in the hearts of comedy fans as hipper auteurs like Judd Apatow, Tina Fey, Dan Harmon, or Louis C.K. (in fact, he may inspire quite the opposite), but the man behind three of the biggest comedies on TV (Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly) is every bit as powerful and influential in the humor world as some of these more revered figures, if not more so. Let’s take a look at some of the TV shows that the Two and a Half Men man has tried to get on the air over [...]

Jerks

Boy, Two and a Half Men Co-Creator Lee Aronsohn Sounds Like a Real Prick

by Adam Frucci | April 2nd, 2012

The latest crop of new network sitcoms from the past year or so feature a whole lot that are female-fronted, from Whitney and Two Broke Girls to Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23 and BFFs. It's great, right? They're all very different shows that have little in common other than the gender of their lead actors, offering up different things to different audiences while making the TV comedy landscape more representative of the actual population. You'd have to be kind of a misogynist dirtbag to make sweeping, negative generalizations about that, right? Enter Two and a Half Men co-creator Lee Aronsohn:

"Enough ladies. I get it. You [...]

Ratings

Two And A Half Men Ratings Sink, Remain Untouchable

by Halle Kiefer | October 24th, 2011

It's a testament to how much Two And A Half Men kills it with the American public (compared to practically any other sitcom) when their ratings can plummet and yet still be the one of the biggest games in town. E! explains how, while the show has experienced declines for the fourth week in a row, that just means they end up with 15.8 million viewers for last week's episode. While competitors like Dancing With The Stars have lured away audience members, CBS still averages 4.0 rating among adults age 18 to 49, even with season lows for all of its comedies: How I Met Your Mother, Broke [...]

controversy
Rainn Wilson Follows Angus T. Jones's Lead, Calls 'The Office' "Filth"
by Bradford Evans | November 28th, 2012
Two and a Half Men's half man Angus T. Jones made headlines this week when he encouraged fans to stop watching Two and a Half Men and called the show "filth" in a testimonial for some weird religious cult. You'd think the Angus T. Jones controversy would be a cautionary tale for the stars of other network sitcoms and would make them be more careful about what they say, but that's apparently not the case. The Office's Rainn Wilson released this video via his Facebook yesterday afternoon, in which he also calls his show filth and tells people not to watch it, Thursday nights at 9 on NBC. [...]

Ratings Schmatings
America Continues to Love 'Big Bang Theory' and 'Two and a Half Men' More than You Do
by Bradford Evans | October 12th, 2012
Last night's Nielsen ratings are in, everyone! As per usual, CBS's twin tri-camera titans The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men bested the rest of everything on television when it comes to those silly, inaccurate, outmoded Nielsen numbers. In the 8pm slot, Big Bang scored a 4.2 rating and 13.8 million viewers overall, running laps around 30 Rock, which got a 1.4 and 3.8 million. At 8:30, Two and a Half Men got a 3.4 rating and 11.2 million viewers, leaving Up All Night in the dust with a 1.2 and 3.5 mil. The Office and Parks and Rec, along with all of the Big Four networks' shows [...]

schedules
Ummm, So, CBS Announces Their Fall Schedule
by Jesse David Fox | May 16th, 2012
Not to be all like, "CBS's schedule – woof," but CBS's schedule – woof. The "big news" is they moved Two And A Half Men to Thursday nights at 8:30 so you better start figuring out if you're going to watch it or Up All Night. Oh, you're just going to DVR 2.5 Men? And then you're going to light your DVR on fire? Well played. 2 Broke Girls moves to 9, making it harder to accidently watch after How I Met Your Mother. Partners, the show about a straight guy and a gay guy who are pals, is the only new comedy. Check out the schedule below and [...]

guest stars
Patton Oswalt Will Guest on Two and a Half Men, Thrilling Maybe 10 People
by Hallie Cantor | February 3rd, 2012
Patton Oswalt will appear on an upcoming episode of Two and a Half Men as Ashton Kutcher's ex-business partner. The Venn diagram of people who are super-into Oswalt and super-into Men probably isn't huge, but this has gotta be exciting news for those 10 people.

Ratings
Good Lord: 28 Million People Watched Two and a Half Men Last Night
by Adam Frucci | September 20th, 2011
Last night, a whopping 28 million people tuned in to see Ashton Kutcher step into Charlie Sheen's bowling shirts on Two and a Half Men. That is insane; it's over 11% of the entire population of the United States. It's also more than the entire population of Australia. Obviously, those numbers won't stick. People were tuning in out of pure curiosity, and judging by our own Josh Kurp's take on it, what they saw wasn't very good. Will lots of people still watch it? Probably. But not this many people.

And the huge numbers certainly didn't hurt 2 Broke Girls, which enjoyed a huge audience of 19.15 [...]

Rants
'Two and a Half Men' Star Angus T. Jones Says Stop Watching 'Two and a Half Men'
by Bradford Evans | November 26th, 2012
"If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men, I'm on Two and a Half Men, and I don’t want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth… People say it’s just entertainment. Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you’ll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch."

-Two and a Half Men's half man Angus T. Jones, railing against the evils of Two and a Half Men in a religious testimonial of some kind.

Ratings
Relax, NBC Comedy Fans, CBS’s Monday Night Sitcom Block’s Ratings Are Down Too
by Bradford Evans | September 25th, 2012
Just a few days after NBC’s Thursday night comedy block returned to less-than-stellar ratings, CBS’s Monday night sitcom bunch came back to a cold reception too. This was the first time the Monday block hasn’t included Two and a Half Men, which scored sky-high Nielsens in the 9pm timeslot for nearly a decade before CBS moved it to Thursdays for this season, so that may have something to do with the dip.

The season premiere of How I Met Your Mother received a 3.4, down significantly from the previous season’s 4.7 rating with adults 18-49, followed by new series Partners, which got a 2.4. 2 Broke Girls, [...]

Ratings
Two Good Things That Look Better Next to Each Other
by Adam Frucci | April 10th, 2012
"Season three of Archer recorded its highest viewership ever, posting significant double-digit increases across all demos versus season two… This was Archer’s most-watched regular season ever across every key demo, with growth ranging from +24% to +56% over its prior season… Last month, FX ordered 13 episodes for Archer’s fourth season." — FX's Archer Records Its Most-Watched Season Ever

"On Monday, [Two and a Half Men] hit a series low in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic and finished with 10.4 million total viewers, its lowest total audience since May of 2007 and its second-lowest audience ever. The drop is part of a larger decline that began in January, when [...]

Taking Stock
Is the 2011-2012 Sitcom Schedule the Worst in a Decade?
by Joshua Kurp | November 1st, 2011
Every year in the fall, and then again in the middle of winter, we get our hopes up for some of the new network sitcoms that are set to premiere on the Big Four (ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC), and The CW, kind of, and we immediately write off others. Take 2011, for instance: we all knew Whitney and Last Man Standing were going to stink, but hey, Free Agents (before it got cancelled…) and New Girl are actually kind of good! But how does this season so far (which isn’t full completely, and won’t be until Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 and Napoleon Dynamite, among others, [...]