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CBS bosses think Charlie Sheen will get ratings boost from Plaza rampage

Turns out that trashing a hotel room might be a good way to get a raise.

Instead of destroying his career, Charlie Sheen’s drugged-up antics have his bosses jumping for joy and thinking that it will boost ratings on his long-running hit sitcom “Two and a Half Men.”

“They’re quietly thrilled,” a network insider told The Post. “They think it will open up the show to a whole new segment of young viewers, the 17-to-23 crowd. They feel like it’s millions in free publicity.”

Sheen’s dad, Hollywood legend Martin Sheen, however, is not — and is even weighing organizing a family intervention to try to get the troubled actor off booze, drugs and prostitutes, a source close to the family said.

Martin wants to separate Charlie from the party pals and hangers-on he was with on Oct. 26, the night he trashed his room at The Plaza while his porn-star date cowered in the bathroom, according to the source.

“You have to separate him from that environment, from the people he’s been around,” the source said.

brad.hamilton@nypost.com