is very smart here getting the actor who's damaged goods for a lesser price pennies on the dollar and put them on his relatively small network. it's certainly a win for him. yeah, somebody's always going to scoop up the dregs in hollywood. >> steve, do you agree with that? do you think that's charlie's still bankable? >> with all due respect to your wonderful career and reality television, piers, that's really the only thing that's left. for charlie sheen right now. to put him on a scripted show or a movie is going to be very difficult because who is going to insure him in he's not dependable. that was really the key to charlie sheen's surviving as long as he did on "two and a half men." why does the network look the other way? he had the problems because he was showing up every day and doing his job and create -- still bringing in viewers. clearly, something happened. the last couple of months. his condition was deteriorating. his performance was deteriorate