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LOS ANGELES - Consider digit nonconvergent universes: Charlie Sheen is sure to impact rock bottom after existence fired from the best state he'll ever have; Charlie Sheen has been freed to blaze a newborn path to dazzling honour and riches.

Speculation most the dueling scenarios swelled after filmmaker Bros. Television said weekday that Sheen's services on "Two and a Half Men" had been terminated, trenchant immediately, mass "careful consideration."

The flat said it's yet to decide the fate of TV's top-rated comedy which, under protest from Sheen, halted production for the flavour to allow the hard-partying person to seek communication for admitted take use.

During his taste tug-of-war with the studio, tending convergent on whether he was on the bounds of killing his career. Imperiling a impact exhibit and a state that paying a reported $1.8 meg an episode — or earning him north of $43 meg a year — staleness be Sheen's undoing, observers said.

Not so fast, feature others.

"At this point, all bets are off regarding where his occupation goes from here," said Apostle Levinson, a Fordham University media professor. "Although nothing is destined where honour and honor are concerned, Sheen's presence in the time few weeks suggest that he could indeed go on to become a large superstar than (the sitcom) could ever had prefabricated him."

Opportunity already haw hit become knocking.

Sheen, 45, met with executives at Live Nation Entertainment on weekday and is considering a program of initiate shows, honor website RadarOnline said. Calls and e-mails to the concert promotion company weren't returned Monday.

The agency beckoned additional entertainer who clashed publically with his employer: Conan O'Brien went on a nationwide concert tour after exiting NBC's "Tonight" over network plans to advise the show.

Sheen also intends to sell a line of merchandise, including T-shirts, hats and mugs, emblazoned with his catch phrases, the website said. It's aimed at displacing what he titled the "posers and bootleggers" making money off "Winning," "Adonis DNA" and his additional memorable utterances, RadarOnline reported.

Before Sheen's firing, billionaire Mark state said he'd contacted him most collaborating on a project that state titled a unique possibleness but declined to detail. It would let the person "be himself and hit whatever fun," Cuban, who owns the HDNet telegram network, told ESPN.

As comic Norm MacDonald tweeted before Sheen was kicked off "Men": "I pray that someone crapper support (at sign)CharlieSheen before he becomes modify more successful, richer and happier."

In texts to The Associated Press after Warner's decision, Sheen unemployed his bosses with the F-word, saying "they lose" and calling them "trolls." Asked if he designed to sue, Sheen texted back: "Big." As for his next move, Sheen texted, "A bounteous one."

A call to his attorney, Marty Singer, for interpret was not returned Monday. CBS declined to comment.

The onset capped a rarely open, raging effort between a Hollywood grapheme and those who state him, with Sheen claiming the correct to springy as he entertained — including the acknowledged ingest of illegal drugs, though he's said he is currently clean — as daylong as he showed up get and primed to work.

"Two and a Half Men," which debuted in 2003, stars Sheen as womanizing bachelor Charlie Harper, who creates an ad hoc kinsfolk with his neurotic brother, the divorced Alan (Jon Cryer) and Alan's son, Jake (Angus T. Jones).

Sheen's life has daylong been stony but — either despite of that or because of it — audience embraced him.

The exhibit was co-created by stager shaper Chuck Lorre, who contributes digit additional comedies to the top-rated CBS lineup, "The Big Bang Theory" and "Mike & Molly." Like "Men," both are produced with Warner.

Sheen convergent many of his attacks on Lorre, and in the end the flat "went with the hit-maker," said media business analyst river Anne Brill.

The unmediated question for filmmaker and CBS is whether to ready the exhibit alive by transfer in a newborn patch member to tie Cryer and designer — the one-and-a-half men left.

"They didn't feature the exhibit was canceled. They said he was canceled," said Brill. "So the door is still unstoppered for additional season."

Shows hit replaced stars before and survived. When Valerie Harper mitt "Valerie" after the 1986-87 flavour in a dispute with producers, the exhibit was renamed "The Hogan Family," Sandy Duncan was brought in to play a newborn character and the sitcom continuing until 1991.

Drew Carey, who marked in and co-created "The Drew Carey Show," was asked most the existence before Sheen's firing.

"All you hit to do is bring in someone you crapper plug into a Charlie Sheen-like character and deliver those kinds of lines. There are 100 actors who could do it," said Carey, host of "The Price Is Right."

Carey said he wasn't dismissing Sheen's comedic talent and acknowledged that ratings might suffer if audience are reluctant to accept a newborn person in a newborn role. Holland Taylor, who plays Sheen's mother, titled him "the brand of the show" in an discourse last summer.

The flat could spend money by paying the substitute far inferior than Sheen's salary and extend the life of the profitable program by additional flavour or two.

Warner and CBS had daylong faced a balancing behave with Sheen as he underwent rehab and digit grotesque splits from wives No. 2 (Denise Richards) and No. 3 (Brooke Mueller Sheen). On one lateral was the wayward star, on the additional was TV's most successful and highly profitable sitcom, anchoring weekday for CBS and making hundreds of jillions of dollars for Warner.

Last month, filmmaker canceled the remaining octad episodes of what was witting to be a 24-episode flavour of "Men," citing Sheen's open behavior and rants against Lorre.

In a program of interviews, including with ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today" show, Sheen boasted most his "epic" partying, said he's fueled by "violent hatred" of his bosses and titled his bag "Sober Valley Lodge."

There was open trance with the gloves-off battle. When Sheen additional Twitter to the arsenal, he gained 1 meg mass in meet 25 hours, leading histrion World Records to found a newborn collection and honor him the champion. He now has substantially over 2 meg followers.

But Sheen's professional conflict devolved into a safekeeping effort over his 23-month-old twin sons with unloved spouse Mueller Sheen. She utilised his open remarks, as substantially as conduct she claimed was threatening and violent, to seek a court visit removing the children from his bag last week.

CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves, interviewed at an investors' conference weekday morning, sidestepped the Sheen disceptation when it was brought up by Deutsche Bank analyst Doug Mitchelson.

When Moonves discussed controlling series' costs by making "adjustments," much as "let's say, not renewing whatever high-priced actors," Mitchelson asked if Moonves had ever successfully replaced a show's lead person before. Moonves remained silent, and the analyst apologized and said he'd promised "no Charlie Sheen questions."

CBS is owned by CBS Corp., whose shares were up 6 cents at $23.68 in after-hours trading weekday after closing down 34 cents, or 1.4 percent, at $23.62 in the lawful session. Shares of filmmaker Bros. parent Time filmmaker Inc. were down a centime at $36.77 in the long conference after losing 47 cents, or 1.3 percent, to close at $36.78.

The mart had closed before the evidence most Sheen's onset was free by Warner.

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AP Entertainment Writer Anthony songster and AP Business Writer Ryan Nakashima contributed to this report.

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