Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen are to star in the upcoming comedy series Happy Jack for AMC. It marks their first on-screen appearance together since Anger Management.
It follows Jack (Charlie Sheen), a bit of a lifelong ne’er-do-well and his two daughters, Kate and Sam. Kate runs Jack’s company and keeps him on the rails while Sam is a wild child who is more like her Dad. When Sam comes home to introduce everyone to her new boyfriend, Jack’s shocked to learn Paul, a former investment banker turned van life guru, is the same age as he is. Jack soon realises he’s got a choice to make. Will he keep looking out for number one, or embrace this last chance to be a real part of his daughters’ lives?
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“I’ve always heard the moments that truly matter happen when they’re supposed to,” Charlie said in the press release. “The good folks at AMC have played a huge hand in deciding that moment is now. It’s no secret that it’s been a minute, and I’m thrilled to be going back on television in such a meaningful way in an equally wonderful show. The crew has reassembled – suffice it to say, it’s time to give the people what they want.”
The multi-cam comedy will start production on a six-episode first season in Los Angeles early next year, and it will be shot in the same studio where Friends was filmed. Jim Patterson and Matt Ross will serve as writers, executive producers and co-showrunners. Patterson previously worked with Sheen on Two and a Half Men, with Patterson becoming showrunner after Charlie’s departure. Ross was also a writer and producer on the show in the post-Charlie years. Todd Christopher, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Jason Wang of The Tannenbaum Company, and 20th Television also executive produced.
