Newsweek reached out to CBS via email for comment on Wednesday.
Two and a Half Men was among the most-watched sitcoms of the 2000s and was a lucrative franchise for CBS and its talent; its characters and cast remain culturally recognizable. A reboot would involve negotiating compensation, creative control and the reputational risks tied to key figures -- most notably Charlie Sheen, whose 2011 departure followed public controversies.
In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight's Kevin Frazier, which was released on Tuesday, Sheen spoke out about whether the series would ever return.
"Have you spoken to Jon Cryer, and do you wish that Two and a Half Men had gone better?" Frazier asked the 60-year-old actor.
"Of course I do. I still owe Johnny a phone call," Sheen said. "I don't know that show would ever come back or would ever have a chance at ending properly, but if it did, it would be -- I would do it more for the fans than for myself just to put a proper bookend on it."
"It would be nice to bring it back just to tie it up," Frazier said, to which the Golden Globe Award winner replied: "Yeah, just to land that plane, no pun intended, how it always should have touched down, like a frisbee on the beach."
In the Two and a Half Men season finale, a helicopter carrying a piano drops on Charlie Harper (Sheen) and kills him. At the time, Sheen slammed the show's creator Chuck Lorre.
Sheen and Cryer, who co-lead the sitcom, had a falling out amid Sheen's drug addiction and erratic behavior on set, which ultimately led to his dismissal from the show in 2011. He had also publicly insulted Lorre, calling him "a stupid, stupid man" and "a little maggot," though they have since made up, Variety reported.
John Cryer shared his thoughts on a Two and a Half Men reboot during an appearance on The View in 2024: "Oh gosh, oh gosh I don't know how that happens. Thing is, Charlie is doing a lot better now which is wonderful. He and I have not spoken in a few years but he's doing a lot better, which obviously I am happy about. Chuck Lorre, who produced Two and a Half Men... one of the hardest things for him when Two and a Half Men fell apart the way it did is he really thought he was friends with Charlie. And that he lost that was really hard for him. So that they have reconciled is really lovely."
"The thing for me is, when Two and a Half Men was happening, Charlie was like the highest paid actor in television -- probably ever. And there has been nobody that has surpassed the enormous amount of money he was making. And yet he blew it up. So you kind of have to think, I love him, I wish him the best and that he should live in good health the rest of his life but I don’t know if I want to get in business with him for any length of time."
At present, there are no confirmed studio development plans or publicized negotiations for a Two and a Half Men reboot.