Ashton Kutcher, Two And A Half Men | featured news

Behind every great Two and a Half Men episode, there's a great (and very blond) woman! That's the takeaway from last night's TV ratings, given that Miley Cyrus' first guest appearance on Ashton Kutcher's CBS sitcom lead the show to season-high numbers. Her debut episode brought in 13.6 million viewers and a 4.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, a 14 percent jump from last week.

A clean-cut Ashton Kutcher said Wednesday that he's interested in continuing with "Two and a Half Men" beyond this season - and CBS wants him, too... The show is up 20 percent in viewers over Sheen's final season, the Nielsen ratings company said, and Kutcher has also brought in a younger crowd.

A record audience of 27.7 million watched "Two and A Half Men" bury Charlie Sheen and introduce new star Ashton Kutcher in an all-time series high audience for the lucrative CBS comedy.

"Two and a Half Men" creator Chuck Lorre introduced Ashton Kutcher as a new star of television's most popular comedy on Monday, and gained a measure of revenge against the departed Charlie Sheen in the process.

His first "Two and a Half Men" episode may not have aired yet, but Ashton Kutcher has already become TV's highest-paid sitcom star, the New York Post reported Wednesday. Kutcher will pull down $700,000 per episode ($15.4 million for the season) as Charlie Sheen's replacement on the hit CBS series, playing heartbroken internet billionaire Walden Schmidt.

"All will be revealed," says the promo poster featuring stars Angus T. Jones, Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer for the new "Two and a Half Men" season. And on Wednesday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Los Angeles, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler started to dish a little about Kutcher's new character on "Men."

After the Wes-Craven-gory show cancellation sweep a few weeks ago, and the as-of-yet unexplained installment of Ashton Kutcher in the role of Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men, we just hope TV comes out of the whole mess with some actually decent shows to watch this fall. As the previews begin to hit YouTube and the weekly schedules solidify, here are five new shows to look forward to ...

Was Hugh Grant just a red herring? A day after E! News learned that the Brit engaged in ultimately futile negotiations to join Two and a Half Men, trade reports have now pegged Ashton Kutcher as the star who's really on the verge of making a deal to star on the troubled sitcom.