TORONTO – Two and a Half Men co-creator Lee Aronsohn insists Ashton Kutcher wants to return to the hit TV sitcom for a tenth season. CBS just needs to write a big check to keep Kutcher and co-star Jon Cryer on board.
"All Ashton has said is he likes working with us and would like to do more. … It's just a basic negotiation between CBS and the actors because CBS is picking up the tab," Aronsohn told The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday while attending the Toronto Screenwriting Conference.
"They’re (CBS and Warner Bros.) trying to make a deal that will allow the show to remain profitable, to remain on the air," he added. Aronsohn’s comments follow negotiations to bring CBS' Two and a Half Men back for a tenth season, the first without Charlie Sheen, apparently nearing a successful conclusion.
Kutcher last year signed a one-year deal to test whether he could replace Sheen on the sitcom’s reboot, and CBS is looking to renew for another season. Aronsohn also appears in no hurry to pull the plug on the highly-watched sitcom, especially when a large crew depends on Two and a Half Men for their livelihood. "While it’s nice to go out on the top, it’s hard to look people in the face and say, we're going out because I made my money," he insisted.
Besides, the male sitcom writer isn't a fan of the current crop of female-centered comedies like Whitney and Two Broke Girls.
"Enough ladies. I get it. You have periods," Aronsohn commented.
He applauded women like Whitney Cummings, Chelsea Handler and Tina Fey securing a voice to discuss formerly taboo subjects on TV.
"But we’re approaching peak vagina on television, the point of labia saturation," he added.
The current female TV boom contrasts with Two and a Half Men mostly portraying women as bimbos, something Aronsohn isn't about to apologize for.
“Screw it… We're centering the show on two very damaged men. What makes men damaged? Sorry, it’s women. I never got my heart broken by a man,” Aronsohn earlier told the Toronto conference during a keynote address.
Later, he clarified by insisting he was hardly one to take the moral high ground. "We do far too many fart jokes on Two and a Half Men. I’m the last person to judge," he conceded.
sourcepeak vagina and labia saturation? are you fucking kidding me
How disgusting. And to think people watch this piece of shit of television show and think it's okay to act the way the characters act. Ugh.
never found it funny
Probably because you don't date men? Seriously WTF is up with that logic?
l o l
TBH, I never knew there was a quota for how many T.V. shows that are women-centered. There doesn't seem to be a quota for men-centered T.V. shows, so why for women? *smacks forehead* Oh, that's right, if men don't have everything they whine that they don't have anything.
The fact that it's still on the air after however many seasons just makes me weep for the future of the species.
We're centering the show on two very damaged men. What makes men damaged? Sorry, it’s women. I never got my heart broken by a man.
Oh good and he's throwing in that he's kind of got the homophobic thing going on too. SUR-prise. This guy is just a goldmine of dumbshittery.
A grandiose sense of entitlement?
Don't you just love seeing women boiled down to nothing but our genitalia? -_-
Also, pretty sure there are plenty of men who have had their hearts broken by men.
Love you, too.
1) Stop watching the lesbian porn channel, you cockhead.
2) Dick jokes. Dick jokes everywhere. All the time. Because dicks are funny but vaginas are gross, and it is acceptable to reduce women to their sexual organs. It is righteous and acceptable for a dude to be a dick, because not all dudes are dicks, but all women are vaginas and all vaginas are meant to be stuffed with dicks, etc. etc. bros before hoes Tucker Max is a man-god go fuck yourself.
Shall we tally the number of male-centered shows and the number of female-centered shows, just in the last decade? I'd be impressed if the female-centered shows reached double fucking digits, you goddamn assclown.
WHITE MEN ARE NOT IN DANGER OF BECOMING EXTINCT. STOP FUCKING ACTING LIKE YOU GODDAMN ARE, SHIT.