Sheen tops TV earnings rich list

CHARLIE SHEEN’s role as a wealthy, womanising bachelor on the top-rated sitcom Two and a Half Men has made him the highest paid TV actor this year with earnings of $825,000 (€533,000) per episode, including money from his ownership rights in the show.

At the rate of 23 episodes per year Sheen would be pocketing just under $20m (€13m) a year for a role that also earned him three Emmy nominations.

Trailing Sheen in the number two spot on TV Guide’s list is fellow CBS star William Petersen, who takes home $600,000 (€388,000) an episode for portraying investigator Gil Grissom on the hit police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.