Chuck Lorre Still Figuring Out ‘Two And A Half Men’ After Charlie Sheen Experience

[Brian Damage]

Charlie Sheen’s attacks on the series Two And A Half Men and its executive producer Chuck Lorre, which led to Sheen’s firing last year, were “heartbreaking”, Lorre said today at the Branff World Media Festival. “The guy was my friend and colleague for 8 1/2 years. I don’t think we ever had an argument.” Lorre says he was proud of the show. “For it to end like that was devastating – I don’t know what to say about it other than I was heartbroken and hurt”, he said. What’s more, he and his colleagues didn’t have a firm game plan when they re-launched the show with Ashton Kucher. “There was no development process,” he says. “We actually made all of our mistakes on television….If you watch the 24 shows we did last year, you can watch us stumbling around trying to figure things out. I think we still are, honestly.”

The driving force behind hits including The Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly says that he works from “a deep sense of insecurity.” If a show is bad then “there’s no reason for the audience to come back….You’re up against the whole universe.” As a result, when one of his sitcoms is recorded “the audience laughs, and if they don’t, we rewrite it or we’ll cut it….There’s a Musollini aspect. The train has to keep going. You never want to call (CBS chief) Les Moonves and say, ‘I have nothing this week’.” Lorre says he learned to keep characters sacrosanct, and not sell them out for a story or a joke. He monitors the tone of a show to be sure that characters have room to grow. In addition to having lots of jokes, scenes have to have a structure. The one-time songwriter — he wrote the theme to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — says that scenes are at lot like well-written music. “At the end, there better be something”, he says.

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[hawkeye123]

Originally Posted by Brian Damage

Charlie Sheen’s attacks on the series Two And A Half Men and its executive producer Chuck Lorre, which led to Sheen’s firing last year, were “heartbreaking”, Lorre said today at the Branff World Media Festival. “The guy was my friend and colleague for 8 1/2 years. I don’t think we ever had an argument.” Lorre says he was proud of the show. “For it to end like that was devastating – I don’t know what to say about it other than I was heartbroken and hurt”, he said. What’s more, he and his colleagues didn’t have a firm game plan when they re-launched the show with Ashton Kucher. “There was no development process,” he says. “We actually made all of our mistakes on television….If you watch the 24 shows we did last year, you can watch us stumbling around trying to figure things out. I think we still are, honestly.”

The driving force behind hits including The Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly says that he works from “a deep sense of insecurity.” If a show is bad then “there’s no reason for the audience to come back….You’re up against the whole universe.” As a result, when one of his sitcoms is recorded “the audience laughs, and if they don’t, we rewrite it or we’ll cut it….There’s a Musollini aspect. The train has to keep going. You never want to call (CBS chief) Les Moonves and say, ‘I have nothing this week’.” Lorre says he learned to keep characters sacrosanct, and not sell them out for a story or a joke. He monitors the tone of a show to be sure that characters have room to grow. In addition to having lots of jokes, scenes have to have a structure. The one-time songwriter — he wrote the theme to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — says that scenes are at lot like well-written music. “At the end, there better be something”, he says.

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It really is,Wish there was some way ,They could of worked things out.It was one of my very fav shows.When Sheen was there.It was the best comedy on tv.Modern family has replaced it, For me as my fav current comedy.

[yankeesrj12]

Originally Posted by hawkeye123

It really is,Wish there was some way ,They could of worked things out.It was one of my very fav shows.When Sheen was there.It was the best comedy on tv.Modern family has replaced it, For me as my fav current comedy.

Two and a Half Men was my favorite comedy before last season, but now its just kind of there. I'd say Modern Family decreased a lot in quality too this season.

[hawkeye123]

Originally Posted by yankeesrj12

Two and a Half Men was my favorite comedy before last season, but now its just kind of there. I'd say Modern Family decreased a lot in quality too this season.

I haven't seen any of the 3rd season yet.But if that's the case i hope they pick it up.All the episodes that.I have saw we're great.