Kutcher Sets Sitcom Record Sheen Roast a sizable Draw

NEW You'll be able to (AP) Both Ashton Kutcher and Charlie Sheen have something to brag about in their large nights on television.Kutcher's debut as Sheen's alternative inside the CBS sitcom "two and a half Males" was seen by 28.7 million people on Monday. The Nielsen Co. mentioned Tuesday that was greater than almost every other episode inside the show's first eight seasons, when Sheen was the star.The sitcom's previous best showed up May 2005 carrying out a final episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond."Meanwhile, Sheen came out Monday since the "victim" from the Comedy Central roast that showed up at 6.4 million people. This is the second most-seen telecast inside the cable network's history, behind only Rob Dunham's holiday special in 2008.The summer season-opening episode of "two and a half Males," television's most broadly used comedy, was much anticipated. Producers saved it a secret how they would eliminate Sheen's character and introduce Kutcher's.Sheen happen to be fired within the show last season for drug use and erratic behavior. He launched a weekslong tirade against his bosses, including show creator Chuck Lorre, and Lorre got revenge in Monday's episode.Sheen's Charlie Harper character was destroyed when he was hit having a subway train in Paris.Meanwhile, Kutcher came out becoming an Internet billionaire not effective in the suicide attempt around the crumbled relationship. He fell into the show's randy ways, acquiring two women within a bar visit that same evening.The wealth of "two and a half Males" gave a good start for the premiere of CBS' new comedy "2 Broke Women" that adopted it. That relate were built with a crowd of 19.4 million, the greatest audience for just about any fall sitcom premiere since "Inside Schwartz" about 10 years ago.The veteran CBS comedy "Generate An Earnings Met Your Mother" had its best season premiere amounts. In comparison, the summer season premiere of "Hawaii Five-" stood a relatively modest audience of 12 million.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.