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“Two and a Half Men” has been cut down to zero.
CBS last night pulled the plug on the top-rated sitcom for the rest of the season after a ranting and raging Charlie Sheen tore into the show’s creator as “a stupid . . little man and a p- – -y punk.”
And although CBS and Warner Bros. Television made no mention of next season in their one-sentence statement blaming Sheen’s “statements, conduct and condition” for the shutdown, insiders predicted the sitcom is done for.
MARTIN SHEEN PRAYS FOR HIS SON
“We have eight years of the show, and we’re going to lose four shows this season and lose money on that, which is too bad,” a studio insider told The Post.
But the insider said the comedy “is a billion-dollar asset with or without a ninth season,” and there have been no talks with anyone about taking over Sheen’s role.
Without Sheen, there will be no show, the insider said.
But not to worry.
Sheen told radaronline.com he’s negotiating with HBO for a half-hour show, “Sheen’s Corner.”
The gig would pay $5 million an episode for a run of 10 episodes, the Web site said.
Claiming he is completely sober, Sheen made a deal with radaronline.com to take a urine and blood test in front of cameras on Monday, adding, “if they do discover my blood to be tiger blood, I hope that nobody will be shocked.”
Sheen — who earlier in the day had unleashed a vitriolic diatribe against “Men” creator Chuck Lorre on the syndicated radio program “The Alex Jones Show” and TMZ — responded with defiance to being yanked.
“What does this say about Haim Levine [Lorre] after he tried to use his words to judge and attempt to degrade me?” he said in a letter to TMZ verging on anti-Semitism.
“This contaminated little maggot can’t handle my power . . . Clearly I have defeated this earthworm with my words.”
In an earlier rant on the Web site, he sounded the same theme: “I violently hate Haim Levine.”
Lorre, a Bethpage, LI, native, was born Charles Levine.
“He’s a stupid, stupid little man and a p- – -y punk that I’d never want to be like,” Sheen snarled.
Not that Sheen wasn’t warned against challenging Lorre.
“I was told if I went on the attack they’d cancel the show,” he told TMZ. “Are they happy with the 5 billion dollars they made off me or do they want 10? I’m not fair game. I’m not a soft target.”
The swaggering star said he wasn’t even angry at a “vanity card” posted by Lorre at the end of a recent “Men” episode that read, “If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I’m gonna be really pissed.”
“I don’t know why Chuck Lorre is putting these vanity cards up, talking about how I am this empty soulless person, when all I have done is make him and CBS a couple of billion dollars,” Sheen told “The Alex Jones Show.”
“I embarrassed him in front of his children and the world by healing at a pace that his unevolved mind cannot process.
“I’ve spent, I think, close to the last decade, I don’t know, effortlessly and magically converting your tin can into pure gold.”
He also lashed out at Alcoholics Anonymous, saying he cleaned up his act after his 36-hour booze, drugs and sex bender in January “in a nanosecond.”
“This bootleg cult . . .reports a 5 percent success rate,” he said. “My success rate is 100 percent . . . Another one of their mottoes is ‘Don’t be special, be one of us.’ Newsflash: I am special, and I will never be one of you!”
The network source told The Post that CBS had had enough, adding, “We did everything we could possibly do to bail him out.”
Additional reporting by Sean Daly in Los Angeles