10 Potential Replacements for Charlie Sheen on 'Two and a Half Men'

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ByABC News
March 8, 2011, 7:45 AM

March 9, 2011 — -- Let's face it: "One and a Half Men" just isn't a good name for a show.

While Charlie Sheen busies himself with tasks like quoting Martin Luther King Jr. while brandishing a machete at the top of a building, his ex-bosses are occupied with a similarly daunting, if less spectacular, job: figuring out who can replace him on "Two and a Half Men."

With names like Rob Lowe and John Stamos already being thrown around, sources close to CBS and Warner Bros. confirmed to ABCNews.com that it's "reasonable to expect" executives are looking at actors who could revive TV's No. 1 comedy, currently canceled for the remainder of the show's eighth season.

Lowe and Stamos have already gotten Sheen's seal of approval. Today, in an interview on Dan Patrick's radio show, he called both actors "fabulous," apologizing again for initially saying Stamos would "suck" on the show and emphasizing that Lowe is "a beautiful man."

"What I would advise them to do, though, is just make it their own," Sheen added. "Don't, don't, don't think about anything that I've done brilliantly on the show for 177,000 episodes … but I would just tell them, make it your own."

Indeed, "Two and a Half Men" creator Chuck Lorre crafted the Charlie Harper character for Sheen, not for any other actor. Do both love to drink? Check. Both drawn to multiple women at a time? Check. Both prone to fits of rage? Check.

But surely a man not fueled by "tiger blood" or built with "Adonis DNA" could play the similarly-minded uncle, cousin, long lost best friend or secret half-brother of TV's most loved playboy. (Isn't that why they call it acting?) Considering the studio suits probably have their hands full with threats from Sheen's lawyer and the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue, we thought we'd throw them a line.

Below, 10 potential replacements for Sheen on "Two and a Half Men:"



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