Even before Charlie Sheen's Thursday hospitalization, execs working with Two and a Half Men had been waiting for a trigger to get the actor to seek professional help, sources told The Hollywood Reporter this week. 
 
 The situation has reached the point that WBTV brass would be happy to shut down the show to give Sheen a chance to enter rehab. They were hoping for some pivotal incident that would give the studio an opportunity to force the rehab issue, something to which Sheen has been resistant. 
 
 "They are all afraid Charlie will end up dead," one talent rep close to the show told THR. "It is literally day by day." 
 
 "If he did anything to delay production or put it in jeopardy, they'd shut it down and try to force him to go to rehab," another talent rep close to the show said. 
 
 Sheen's recent trip to the hospital will not delay the show immediately since Men is on hiatus this week. Sheen was taken to the hospital due to "severe abdominal pains" Thursday morning. The website TMZ reported that the actor had a "briefcase full of cocaine" delivered to his home -- and was allegedly using the drug during a 36-hour bender prior to the hospitalization. 
 
 Sheen's partying incidents have been well-chronicled on the gossip websites and was even the subject of Ricky Gervais jokes at the Golden Globes. CBS president Nina Tassler said earlier this month that she had a "high level of concern" for the actor. 
 
 But holding the studio back from truly forcing help has been Sheen's ability to do his job. 
 
 "Charlie has been partying pretty hard but he's showed up and done his job," said one source. "Everyone likes him. he's professional." 
 
 Another added: "He knows his character so well. it's a sitcom…It's really a smooth oiled machine." ||||| Charlie Sheen Drug Free for Two Weeks, Gives Anti-Drug Advice to College Students 
 
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 TMZ also reported that Sheen got a standing ovation last week after he delivered an Looks like Charlie Sheen 's rehab at home is working out for him. TMZ reports that the 'Two and a Half Men' actor passed two drug tests since he began his in-home rehab, one taken on Sunday morning and the other one taken last week.The troubled 45-year-old is currently being treated by a sober coach who comes to Sheen's multimillion-dollar Los Angeles mansion. "He is at home now, and those close to him are trying to get him to enter a facility," a source said. "But he doesn't think he has a problem."TMZ also reported that Sheen got a standing ovation last week after he delivered an anti-drug speech to the UCLA baseball team. His advice was simple, "Stay off the crack. Drink a chocolate milk." 
 
 After being hospitalized Jan. 27 for severe abdominal pains , Sheen claimed he had a hernia. Insiders and the tapes of the 911 call that sent Sheen to the hospital indicate, however, that the actor was finishing up a 36-hour bender, which included a suitcase filled with bricks of cocaine delivered to his hotel room.Last week, Sheen was finally granted a divorce from his long-estranged wife Brooke Mueller. He has also agreed to pay a portion of the crew's salaries for the time they're out of work.This was done after it was reported that the show's crew members were "furious" with Sheen for addictions halting the show's production, As one worker reportedly said, "A lot of us do not get paid, if we don't work. So if he's off getting rehab or porn-o-ing or whatever, we're screwed." ||||| Sheen, speaking for the first time since he began a rehab program following reports of wild parties, admitting he has “a lot of work to do”. 
 
 The actor was admitted to hospital last month after he reportedly had a 36-hour drug and drink-fuelled party at his home. 
 
 Long known as a Hollywood bad boy, Sheen began a rehabilitation program the following day, causing production on his top-rated “Two and A Half Men” program to shut down. 
 
 “I have a lot of work to do to be able to return the support I have received from so many people,” Sheen said in a statement to the media on Wednesday. 
 
 “And to my fans, your good wishes have touched me very much. 
 
 “Like Errol Flynn, who had to put down his sword on occasion, I just want to say, 'thank-you’.” 
 
 Flynn, best known for his role as Robin Hood, died in 1959 aged 50, with a reputation for womanising and drinking. 
 
 Sheen, 45, the highest paid actor on US TV, thanked his colleagues on “Two and A Half Men,” as well as CBS Corp (CBS. N) chief executive Les Moonves and Warner Bros studio TV head Bruce Rosenblum for their support. 
 
 A Warner Bros spokesman has said 16 of the 24 scheduled episodes of “Two and A Half Men” for the TV season ending in May had been taped, with 8 remaining to be shot. 
 
 Sheen was initially said by his spokesman to be entering a rehab facility last Friday, but then media reports had him seeking counselling at home. Sheen’s spokesman has since declined to comment on the actor’s treatment plans, citing US law dealing with patient privacy. 
 
 Separately on Wednesday, authorities released the audio recording of a phone call Dr Paul Nassif made to summon an ambulance for Sheen last week. 
 
 Dr Nassif told dispatchers he had received a call from Sheen’s assistant, who was with him at the home where the actor was reported to be partying heavily. The doctor said he was told not to call an ambulance for Sheen, but did so anyway because he was worried. 
 
 “I got (Sheen) on the phone and he was very, very intoxicated. Also apparently in a lot of pain. It’s kind of weird, the phone call I received,” Nassif said in the audio recording. 
 
 Dr Nassif is a cast member of TV reality show “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
– Charlie Sheen's worried family will likely seek a court-ordered conservatorship over the way wayward actor to force him into rehab, reports Radar. CBS officials, meanwhile, have yanked Sheen's hit TV program off the air and a permanent shutdown could cost the network millions as Sheen grapples with the effects of his latest cocaine-smoking, booze-guzzling bender. Sheen, 45, is back home after being rushed to a local hospital last week. "Charlie is coughing a lot, and he doesn't seem to care what he is doing to his body," said a source. "He thinks he's invincible, and that he can do as much drugs as possible with no ramifications." Parents Martin and Janet Sheen hope they could use a conservatorship over Sheen's finances and personal affairs to finally force him to get the help he needs and save his life. Early reports said Sheen was being treated at home by a rehab professional. But his dad knows that "Charlie isn't rehabbing at home," says a friend. "That term just doesn't exist. Charlie is calling the shots, he hasn't surrendered to sobriety, and until that happens, this cycle won't end." Network officials are replacing Sheen's Two and A Half Men with extra episodes of replacement sitcoms for a couple of weeks, and have been told Sheen could be out of the show for up to three months, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "I'm fine," the clueless Sheen texted last week. "Guy can’t have a great time and do his job also?”