Charlie & Martin Sheen to Star in AMC's 'Happy Jack' — SkimNews
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- Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen are set to star as father and son in the multi-cam comedy "Happy Jack" at AMC and AMC+, with production on a six-episode first season beginning in Los Angeles early next year for a 2027 launch
- The series will be shot in front of a live studio audience at Warner Bros. Studios in the same soundstage where "Friends" was filmed, and AMC Global Media will showcase it for international buyers at MIPCOM in October
- The logline centers on Charlie's Jack, a lifelong ne'er-do-well whose well-adjusted daughters were largely raised by his father (Martin); when daughter Sam brings home a van-life ex-banker boyfriend Jack's age, he must choose between self-interest and fatherhood
- Jim Patterson and Matt Ross serve as writers, executive producers, and co-showrunners, alongside EPs Todd Christopher, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, and Jason Wang of The Tannenbaum Company, plus 20th Television; AMC Studios produces
- The Sheens' casting continues a long on-screen father-and-son track record including "Wall Street," "Two and a Half Men," "Anger Management," "Cadence," "Free Money," and Martin Sheen's cameo in "Hot Shots Part Deux"
- Patterson and Ross both previously worked with Charlie on "Two and a Half Men" — Patterson rose to showrunner after Charlie's 2011 departure — and later collaborated on the Netflix multi-cam comedy "The Ranch"
Why it matters: AMC is greenlighting a multi-cam comedy — a format the network openly concedes is 'definitely something new for AMC,' per content chief Dan McDermott — betting that the Sheens' six-prior-collaboration history and a "Two and a Half Men" creative reunion can pull a broadcast-style sitcom audience onto a premium cable platform in 2027.
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