Chuck Lorre's memoir Sitcom, published October 13, 2026, recounts his sitcom career, including CBS's resistance to casting Jon Cryer, a proposal to put a thinner actress in a fat suit instead of Melissa McCarthy, the Big Bang Theory pilot as a writing failure, and Lorre's insistence that he did not fire Charlie Sheen. In an Entertainment Tonight interview, Lorre adds that CBS's president told him to find a Sheen replacement, and that an approach to Hugh Grant fell through before Ashton Kutcher was cast. Reporting since puts Grant's offer at $750,000 an episode and Kutcher's run at 88 episodes over four more years, and adds that Les Moonves shut down a series Lorre wanted with Allison Janney. The discussion centers…