Entertainment : 5 things you didn't know about Two and a half men

1. Charlie Sheen was the highest paid actor on television, and he made $1.78 million per episode when he was a part of the show.
2. Although Charlie's character plays piano on the show, Charlie Sheen is not the one playing. He pretends to play, and then later Grant Geissman plays the jingles, which are dubbed.
3. In January 2010, they filmed an episode without the usual live audience. Jon Cryer suspected that his ex-wife had hired a hit man to kill him because of their custody battle over their two-year-old son.
4. Ashton Kutcher makes $700,000 per episode.
5. Charlie Sheen was fired from the show following a spat with the creator Chuck Lorre.