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Sheen set to become highest-paid sitcom star

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After two months of negotiations, "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen is close to finalizing a new salary pact that would make him the highest-paid comedy star in television today.

Sources said Sheen will earn about $350,000 per episode this season from producer of the CBS powerhouse, Warner Bros. Television. This represents a hefty increase from his previous payday in the low six figures.

Sources said CBS is kicking in some money for the pay raise for Sheen, as has become common practice for networks in high-level actor renegotiations deals.

Sheen also is known to have a significant profit-participation stake in the series, now in its fourth season. The top of the sitcom actor pay scale remains the nearly $2 million per episode Ray Romano pulled in for the final season of CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond" in 2004-05.

Sheen began renegotiating his deal in July, shortly after Warner Bros. entered lucrative deals to sell the syndication rights to the Tribune Broadcasting stations (for broadcast) and to FX (for cable), effective 2010.

Representatives for Warner Bros., CBS and Sheen declined comment Wednesday.

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is the show really that good? Ive never watched it and the little bit I have seen, I didnt care for

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Hate it!

But why is Charlie now considered highest paid? Didn't Mr. Fraiser get 750,000 + per episode? Or do we have to read between the lines and assume that Charlie gets a huge bonus as a producer making it more than 1 million per episode?

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But why is Charlie now considered highest paid? Didn't Mr. Fraiser get 750,000 + per episode? Or do we have to read between the lines and assume that Charlie gets a huge bonus as a producer making it more than 1 million per episode?

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highest-paid comedy star in television today

top of the sitcom actor pay scale remains the nearly $2 million per episode Ray Romano pulled in for the final season of CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond" in 2004-05.
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So, he's getting paid all this $$$ just to act like himself? What a sweet deal. :lol:

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SIP, it's well-written and funny but relies WAY too much on vulgar sex jokes. Personally, I hate the way the young actor (the 1/2 man)is exposed to all that. He GREW UP with that, and that's going to affect him, only in a negative way. To think foursomes and gratuitous sex like Charlie's character's is 'normal' and funny. I resent it for that reason. But it can't be denied that this is probably the most laugh-out-loud, fresh sitcom on the air.

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