Charlie Sheen Reunites With Producer Chuck Lorre After Bitter Feud For New Show

Two And A Half Men creator Chuck Lorre reunited with series star Charlie Sheen after the two had a bitter falling out, leading to Sheen’s firing for a new show, Bookie.

Developed by Lorre and Nick Bakay, Bookie stars Sebastian Maniscalco as Danny, a Los Angeles sports betting bookie struggling to keep up with changing times in the gambling world. The show also stars Omar J. Dorsey, Andrea Anders, Vanessa Ferlito and Jorge Garcia.

In the first episode, Danny heads to Malibu to collect a debt from Charlie Sheen and finds him at a rehab facility. Sheen isn’t a patient – he is hosting a weekly poker game. One of the players is Two and a Half Men co-star Angus T. Jones.

The scene also acts as a homage to the poker scene in the Two and a Half Men pilot. 

Lorre and Sheen had an infamous falling out in 2011 when his contract with Two and a Half Men was terminated by CBS after comments directed towards Lorre. 

A year later, Jones said he did not want to be part of the sitcom, believing the show conflicted with his religious views. He returned for a cameo during the series finale. 

Lorre has talked positively about the Two and a Half Men reunion.

“It was actually almost 20 years to the day that we shot the pilot of Two and a Half Men…only now, instead of being in pajamas and annoying the guys, Angus was in the game, and he was terrific,” he shared. “It was a wonderful thing to reunite with both those guys. It really was.”

Sheen publicly came out as HIV-positive in 2015.

Bookie is now streaming on Max.