CBS Bosses Think Charlie Sheen Will Get Ratings Boost From Plaza Rampage

Martin Sheen is weighing organizing a family intervention

Turns out that trashing a hotel room might be a good way to get a raise.

Instead of destroying his career, Charlie Sheen's drugged-up antics have his bosses jumping for joy and thinking that it will boost ratings on his long-running hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men."

"They're quietly thrilled," a network insider said. "They think it will open up the show to a whole new segment of young viewers, the 17-to-23 crowd. They feel like it's millions in free publicity."

Sheen's dad, Hollywood legend Martin Sheen, however, is not — and is even weighing organizing a family intervention to try to get the troubled actor off booze, drugs and prostitutes, a source close to the family said.

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