'Two And A Half Men' Ratings Plummeted After Charlie Sheen Was Fired [CHARTS]
<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/53743c80eab8eac70c52974e-790-395/two-and-a-half-men-ashton-kutcher-1.jpg" border="0" alt="two and a half men ashton kutcher" />We recently shared some charts from "Graph TV," a site that indexes the IMDB ratings of TV shows.</span>
<p class="p1">It's pretty useful if you want to see fan's favorite - and least favorite - episodes of shows quickly or if you want to see when viewership of a popular show started to wane.
<p class="p1">After CBS announced "Two and A Half Men" would come to a close after season 12 Wednesday, we decided to take a look at the long running show.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">
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<p class="p1">Charlie Sheen was ousted from the show following negative comments about the show's creator, Chuck Lorre, initially on radio and TMZ followed by a series of network interviews where he exhibited strange behavior and continued to bad mouth Lorre and the network.
<p class="p1">As a result, the show awkwardly killed off Sheen's character at the start of the ninth season.
<p class="p1">The episode may have been a rating's high for the network (more than 28 million viewers tuned in to watch); however, Sheen's absence wasn't received well by long-time viewers.
<p class="p1">Now in season 11 an average of million watch weekly.
<p class="p1">According to Graph TV, here's how IMDB ratings and reviews look for episodes with Sheen replaced by Ashton Kutcher.<img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5374382769bedd3d01e00526-1200-572/two-and-a-half-men-without-charlie-sheen.png" border="0" alt="two and a half men without charlie sheen" />
<p class="p1">Now in its 11th season, the show receives between 8-10 million viewers (much less than the average of 15 million when Sheen was around).
<span>In comparison, here's an overview of the show's ratings by season average. See how the ratings fared with and without Sheen.</span>
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