Jones on the other. Charlie Sheen, of course, is out of the picture. I believe they had too big a black spot there and they photoshopped in a hand.
Oh, those kidders. But the silliness carries a message: The three actors are a comfortable fit with each other and for the revamped "Two and a Half Men," which returns Sept. EDT for its ninth season, minus the fired Sheen.
Executive producer Chuck Lorre and the Warner Bros. The task now is to salvage what has reigned as TV's top-rated comedy. Kutcher, who carries the weight of replacing Sheen as newly introduced character Walden Schmidt, diligently ticks off reasons the sitcom can remain a hit.
It has fans that are built in," he said. It's going to offend people just as much as every episode has offended people. More fodder came from his roommates, Charlie's neurotic, divorced brother Alan Cryer and young nephew Jake Jones.
The shake-up has given the show the chance to push the envelope in a new direction: laughing in the face of death, with Sheen's character jettisoned in a fatal accident.
