Ashton Kutcher’s reign as television’s highest-paid actor will end next year when the final episode of Two and a Half Men airs.According to Forbes, Kutcher is estimated to have earned $24 million (over £15 million) between June 2012 and June 2013.
His Two and a Half Men co-star Jon Cryer is the second highest-paid actor on television with earnings of about $21 million.The final episode of the hit American comedy will air on February 19, 2015, CBS announced on Friday.
The long-running sitcom starring Kutcher, Cryer and Angus T. Jones is ending after 12 seasons, bringing to a close one of America’s most successful comedies.The show began in 2003 and starred Charlie Sheen as jingle writer Charlie Harper and his tough brother Alan played by Cryer, and Jones as Alan’s young son.
Sheen was written off the show in 2011 following criticism he made of show creator Chuck Lorre and reportedly challenging him to a fight.Sheen’s character was killed off and replaced by Walden Schmidt, played by Ashton Kutcher. He has been on Two and a Half Men since its ninth season.
However, Sheen will likely reprise her role on the show for the finale.
Back in October, the actor said he was open to returning for the final episode, “I would definitely do it, yeah, yeah. If they still have me, I’ll be there. Well, I owe it some measure of closure. I owe it to the fans, I owe it to myself.”
Two and a Half Men earned 47 Emmy nominations, and Cryer won two awards in 2009 and 2012.The comedy has been on our screens for more than a decade and will have aired 262 episodes by the time it wraps up in February.
he series finale, titled “Of Course He’s Dead,” aired in 2015. It was a two-part episode that featured a meta twist and didn’t necessarily focus on Ashton Kutcher’s character, Walden.
While Kutcher did receive a high salary during his time on the show, it’s unclear if it made him the absolute highest-paid actor on US television at that specific point.
The finale was a controversial one, with some fans enjoying the meta humor and others finding it unsatisfyingAshton Kutcher’s arrival in season 9 helped the show maintain its popularity after the departure of Charlie Sheen (who played Charlie Harper)
