Who Should Replace Sheen on Two and a Half Men?

No need to stop at John Stamos or Matt Le Blanc. There are lots of people who could take over Charlie Sheen's role on the CBS sitcom.

If you’ve been following the news at all, you’ll know that the chances of actor Charlie Sheen returning to the cast of the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men are growing slimmer by the day.

With that mind, some in the media have been kicking around ideas for possible replacements. Names like John Stamos and Matt Le Blanc seem to be the leading media-nominated contenders at this point.

But why stop there?

Here’s a more fulsome list of the personalities who could conceivably take Sheen’s place on the show. And these are only the names that immediately come to mind:

Neil Patrick Harris

William Shatner

Drew Carey

Jason Priestley

Michael J. Fox

Ted McGinley

Alyssa Milano

Kyle McLaughlin

Malin Akerman

Craig Kilborn

Bret Michaels

Kris Kristofferson

James Franco and Anne Hathaway

Watson, the computer that won on Jeopardy!

George Takei

Jonathan Frakes

Jesse “The Body” Ventura

Tom Berenger

Wilson, the volleyball from Castaway

Hanson

The Hanson Brothers

Shannen Doherty

Tiffani Amber Thiessen

Judd Nelson

Jeff Goldblum

Kathy Griffin

Jeb Bush

Tim Meadows

Joe Walsh

Ron Livingston

Daryn Jones

Steven Tyler

Jimmy Smits

The demonic black cat Salem, as voiced by Nick Bakay

Cliff Howard

Bud Cort

The Littlest Hobo

Sammy Hagar

Dennis Miller

Val Kilmer

Harold and Kumar

Joan Cusack

LeBron James

Norm MacDonald

Meg Tilly

The Replacements

Molly Ringwald

Hosni Mubarak

Laurence Fishburne

Emilio Estevez

Paula Abdul

Ramon Estevez

Denise Richards

Martin Sheen

Isn’t it fun to play casting director? But now that I really think about it, Charlie Sheen could be replaced by ... well, just about anybody.

And who knows, some of people on my list might even charge less than $3 million per episode, a considerable cost savings for CBS.

This article was originally published in the London Free Press.