Charlie Sheen Back On Celebrity 100 As He Awaits $200 Million Payday

It takes more than an epic flame-out involving drugs, porn stars and the loss of a $30-million-a-year TV job to keep Charlie Sheen down for long. The Hollywood veteran missed last year’s Celebrity 100 list after his Two and a Half Men sacking, but he’s back, landing at #67, above far better-behaved actors.

Sheen’s return is due in part to a decent payday with Anger Management — albeit, far less than he earned in his CBS. The 47-year-old makes a relatively modest producers’ fee estimated at $100,000 per episode for the FX comedy vehicle, which quickly broke ratings records with its 2012 debut to become the most-watched sitcom premiere in cable history. And Anger Management is going for quality and quantity, churning out a whopping 46 episodes since this time last year, more than double the number of a traditional network sitcom.

Still, the $5 million or so Sheen pocketed from Anger Management in the past 12 months doesn’t hold a candle to the $1.3 million the actor made per 22-minute episode of Two and a Half Men in 2011-2012 ($1.9 million if you count back-end syndication pay, and Forbes does). Despite his acrimonious fallout with showrunner Chuck Lorre, Sheen still makes a fortune from the hit show, which has since made replacement leading man Ashton Kutcher the highest-paid actor on TV.

Forbes estimates Sheen’s syndication and DVD pay from Two and a Half Men and 1990s hit Spin City made him more this year than Anger Management did. His spot on the list is due not just to his $10 million estimated earnings but his presence in the press, most recently for reportedly firing actress Selma Blair from his show, which sees him play an athlete-turned-therapist.

However, once Anger Management goes into syndication at the end of 2014, Sheen will really start raking it in again, perhaps even moving back up the Celebrity 100 (he was #28 in 2011). Thanks to an unusual deal expertly chronicled by former Forbes reporter Lacey Rose in the Hollywood Reporter, Sheen stands to take up to 40% of the series’ profits. This could see the recovering addict make as much as $200 million off the show’s back-end.