The contracts have been signed: CBS has officially a tenth season of the comedy series Two and a Half Men ordered. However, there will be at the top of Serie a change, since the co-creator and executive producer Lee Aronsohn long assigns.

On Wednesday, the U.S. television network CBS with his Upfrontpräsentation turn. The first decision in the immediate run with a prolongation of the comedy series "Two and a Half Men" for a tenth season was announced. Previously had become known that the three leading actors Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones have signed new one-year contracts, which make possible this season.

Also announced in the run was the farewell of Serienmitschöpfer Lee Aronsohn, Chuck Lorre who worked alongside so far. Lorre manages three series, with each supported him a partner who cares about a single series. While Aronsohn will support the series in an advisory capacity to take over the longtime author Don Reo and Jim Patterson, the daily work.

CBS is proud to present the figures for the season: average 15 percent more viewers in season nine as in the roughing train (15 million), a rating in the werberelvanten target audience of 18 - to 49-year-olds from 5.2 (share 13 percent), which the series in the running season, the third most successful comedy is on U.S. television after "the Big Bang Theory" and "Modern Family".

The reality is somewhat bleaker than the average figures are from the phenomenal season opener pulled up, as everyone on the departure of Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) and the arrival of Walden Schmidt (Kutcher) is stretched was - the last episode saw 11.43 million (Z18-49: 3.8 Rating/12 share).