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CBS, Warner pull plug on season of Sheen’s sitcom

LOS ANGELES -- "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen has skirted disaster as a wayward, middle-aged party boy who regularly tested the patience of the TV network and studio trying to protect their valuable sitcom property. It was a violence-tinged and anti-Semitic radio rant that helped push him over the edge and, finally, forced CBS and Warner Bros. Television to take action. The companies said they were ending production on television's No. 1 sitcom for the season.

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