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
was no way to get out of the confrontational words throwing at them and i could tell when i talked to them over the past week or so that they were really running out of patience because even when he performed on your show and came across as charming, i thought, it didn t crack the hostility coming from the other side. i feel like they felt it was a last straw element to the last ten days or so. in their statement, i ll read a line or two. mr. sheen s erratic behavior escalated while his condition deteriorated. his declining condition undermined the production in numerous and significant ways. now the entire world knows mr. sheen s condition from alarming outbursts over just the last few weeks. howard bragman, here s my thing of charlie sheen. when he came in here, he seemed relatively normal. he was funny. she was sparky. he was entertaining, confrontal, defiant.
there it is. you got a very popular show. just picked up again. very, very well. congratulations. thank you. thank you. i enjoy it. i have to throw it back at you. this is exactly the kind of meat and drink issue stuff you would talk about all the time. the viewer s i can tell you engrossed in the charlie sheen story. whether you want to talk about it or not. doesn t matter what i think. it s the fact of the american public now are reverberated. i don t go ahead, sarah. we get together in the morning and talk about when s going on and whatever we spark to, we talk about. i don t think we purposely avoid anything, purposely talk about anything. it s very organic process. what do we get the most out of and fun of talking about. it s what we do is not kind of the magazine tv show. we re not the lindsay lohan, charlie sheen. we don t do it. we never discuss lindsay lohan. never?
does work. especially sitcoms, if you look at, you know, m.a.s.h. or cheers or three s company or be witched shows continued. if it s popular. it may lose something but they tend to succeed. there s an actual similar case where they actually fired a person, valerie harper, was fired off of a show called valerie and renamed it the hogan family and ran three more years and tends to work. i totally agree with steve. my sense is that cbs and warner brothers are gearing up and have already made plans to replace charlie and continue the show. howard, let me ask you again from a pr perspective, i guess, is charlie sheen employable anymore in television? i think he is. mark cuban talked to him about going to hd net. this is the number one paid actor on tv with 14 million
everything in the world. because that s what people do. that s what people do. we re moms and talk about our kids all the time. the friendships developed and i think what s so awesome about this show and what i m excited about is all of our friendships are developing and i think that s what s making the show special is that we re feeling so connected to each other and bringing hopefully something real. what do you all think of the view ? we think it s great. the show has been do you? i was on bedrest 13 years ago when the view started. i watched every day. i think it s a great show. i love the format. i think it s great. sharon, you must pluck feathers when you i love it. rivals? i love it. they re not rivals. what? listen. piers, what are you saving the hard-hitting questions for us? you should be asking somebody else the hard-hitting questions instead of giving them compliments. i m trying to get you to blow. i wound you up.