Sitcom ‘Two and a Half Men’ is to return for a tenth season, a year after Ashton Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen. The deal follows protracted talks between Warner Brothers TV, Kutcher and his co-stars Jon Cryer and Angus T Jones. All will return with small pay rises, US industry papers reported. Sheen was sacked from the show last year after criticising its producers and months of reported drug use. About 28.7m tuned in to see Kutcher’s debut. It was the show’s highest-ever audience and the series was watched by an average of 15m viewers. The show’s creator, Chuck Lorre, is also responsible for comedies such as ‘Dharma and Greg’ and ‘The Big Bang Theory’. The Hollywood Reporter says that, thanks to the show’s success, Kutcher will receive “slightly more” than the $700,000 per episode he is thought to have made last year. He will also be seen later this year playing Steve Jobs in a film biopic of the late Apple Computers pioneer.
