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TWO AND A HALF MEN Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer

Greg Gayne

TWO AND A HALF MEN
RETURNED MARCH 17 · 9 PM · CBS
EPISODES LEFT: 8

WHERE WE LEFT OFF: Despite having been warned by Teddy (Robert Wagner) not to date his daughter Courtney (Jenny McCarthy), Charlie (Charlie Sheen) decided to hook up with the nutcase anyway.

UP NEXT: Now it appears Courtney's about to become Charlie's stepsister, as Holland Taylor's Evelyn ''is going to marry Teddy,'' says executive producer Chuck Lorre. And a murder mystery envelops the Harper household in May when CSI executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar trade jobs with Lorre for one episode each. ''We can be funny,'' insists Mendelsohn, who's keeping mum about her plans for the cast. ''We tell that to Billy Petersen all the time.'' —Lynette Rice