>Is Charlie Sheen headed to Fox — or back to ‘Two and a Half Men?’

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Is the Charlie Sheen machine heading back to “Two and a Half Men”?

As Sheen preps for his upcoming comedy tour, which kicks off at the Fox Theatre on April 2, a flurry of gossip fueled the public’s imagination Monday.

Chatter crafted by Hollywood Life magazine suggested that there have been meetings between Sheen and Fox bigwigs about the possibility of launching a new late-night show.

Meanwhile, radaronline.com unleashed a story suggesting that reconciliation talks are under way between Sheen and “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorre. CBS head honcho Les Moonves has reportedly been working on ways to put his top-rated comedy together again for the fall.

‘Detroit 1-8-7’ finale ratings

“Detroit 1-8-7” made its last stand Sunday night as its first (and maybe only) season came to a close. That’s sad news, and there’s even more discouraging news for fans who were hoping the season finale would help boost the show’s ratings.

The 18th episode of “1-8-7,” which was moved to Sunday from its usual 10 p.m. Tuesday time slot, drew about 4.7 million viewers nationally. Locally, nearly 340,000 viewers tuned in for the finale, according to figures provided by WXYZ-TV (Channel 7).

On Monday, during a freep.com Web chat, “1-8-7” creator Jason Richman popped up to let guests know that he and his producing team are committed to the series — and the city — and will be doing everything possible to ensure that it returns for a second season.

ABC isn’t expected to reveal the fate of “1-8-7” until it announces its 2011-12 schedule in May.

Miss USA due at fund-raiser

Reigning Miss USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn is scheduled to make an appearance at the Fallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund’s sixth annual dinner and auction Saturday.

WDIV-TV (Channel 4)’s Chuck Gaidica will host the event, which will feature keynote speakers Oliver North and Kirk S. Lippold.

The soldiers group is a Livonia-based nonprofit organization that is dedicated to assisting veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and their families. The event is being produced in coordination with Families United and Operation Care Package Michigan.

Tickets for the event at the Suburban Collection Showplace (formerly Rock Financial Showplace) are $100 per person. For more, call Ann Cornelius at 248-346-5976 or e-mail ann4fwsf@aol.com .

Seger adds second Detroit date

There’s another hometown show for Bob Seger: The Detroit rocker has added a May 17 date at the Palace of Auburn Hills to go with the already-scheduled May 19 show at the arena.

Seats for both shows will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday through Ticketmaster and at the Palace box office.

The concerts are part of a spring tour that kicks off Saturday in Toledo. It’s the first tour for Seger and his Silver Bullet Band since 2007, and it comes as the much-loved Michigan star nears the release of his first album in five years.

Zingerman’s chef up for award

Zingerman’s Roadhouse executive chef Alex Young is one of five finalists for the James Beard Foundation’s 2011 Best Chef: Great Lakes award. The Beard competition is considered the most prestigious in the United States for food professionals and others in the food and wine world.

This is the fifth time the Ann Arbor chef has been a finalist in the Beard awards. Nominees in all 55 awards categories are at JBFAwards.com.

Winners for chefs and other industry professionals will be announced in New York on May 9.

Briefly

• WCSX-FM (94.7) morning jock Ken Calvert is looking for a local classic rock outfit that has the goods to open up for Eddie Money at DTE Energy Music Theatre on May 27.

To get started with KC’s Big Break contest, local rockers just need to film (and then upload) a video of a performance. Voting is scheduled to begin in mid-April before the top five finalists rock out during a showdown scheduled for May.

For more, listen to KC on WCSX in the mornings or head to wcsx.com/bigbreak/.

• Eddie Murphy will receive the Comedy Icon Award during the inaugural Comedy Awards, organizers announced Monday. Featuring Tina Fey, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon, Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Kristen Wiig and more, the Comedy Awards will air over multiple MTV networks April 10.

>Warlocks (and Alec Baldwin) Want Charlie Sheen to Get His Act Together

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Add the witches and warlocks of Salem, Mass. to the list of those who have had it up to here with the Sheenanigans.
As it turns out, the Coven of the Raven Moon was none too amused when Charlie Sheen announced he’s a “Vatican assassin warlock” during a recent radio interview.
Hence, it was time for a five-minute “magical intervention.”
The group felt that Sheen calling himself an “assassin warlock” cast peace-loving Wiccans in a bad light. In order to teach Sheen a lesson (and bind him from harming himself and others), the coven headed to a Salem witchcraft store and summoned the archangels of the four corners of the world, according to Variety.
“May you find healing and open your eyes; we bind you from harm in the craft of the wise,” three coven members reportedly chanted after lighting candles and shaking a talisman head of Anubis.
But the bevy of beefs with the former Two and a Half Men star didn’t stop there.
Alec Baldwin also had some tough love for the record-setting Twitterer.
“You can’t win. Really. You. Can’t,” Baldwin wrote in an editorial for The Huffington Post. “Take a nap. Get a shower. Call Chuck. Go on Letterman and make an apology. Write a huge check to the B’Nai Brith. And then beg for your job back. Your fans demand it.”
And that wasn’t all.
“Sober up, Charlie. And get back on TV, if it’s not too late. This is America. You want to really piss off Chuck and Warner Brothers and CBS? Beg for America’s forgiveness. They will give it to you. And then go back. You are a great television star. And you’ve got the gig,” Baldwin continued. “P.S…. buy Cryer a really nice car.”

>Charlie Sheen Celebrates ‘Two and a Half Men’ Firing: ‘Free at Last’

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The actor climbs to the top of an office building wielding a machete and drinking out of a bottle Monday afternoon.The actor climbed to the top of the Live Nation office building in Beverly Hills first wielding a machete and then drinking out of a bottle, as captured by a TMZ camera crew.

Asked what he was planning to do next, Sheen shouted down to reporters below: “I ain’t gonna go to f—ing Disneyland, I’ll tell you that much.”Once on ground again, Sheen was asked if he was “excited” about being released from his Men contract.

“Let me just say, free at last, free at last,” Sheen replied.

On Monday, Sheen’s lawyer Marty Singer told The Hollywood Reporter that they are planning to sue Warner Bros. over Sheen’s termination.

“We will sue,” Singer said. “It’s a matter of when. It could be this week, it could be in a little while. We’re in no rush. But we will sue.”

>Charlie Sheen’s Web show draws more than 100,000 viewers

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Charlie Sheen’s Ustream Internet show drew more than 100,000 viewers during its debut airing on Saturday night.

Viewer count for “Sheen’s Korner” fluctuated throughout the broadcast but there were 113,251 hits at one point. By contrast, Sheen has about two million Twitter followers.

Wearing a hat and a black t-shirt with a green dollar sign on its front, the ubiquitous former sitcom star and his three cohorts/co-hosts introduced segments such as “Wish They Were Me” and “Weighing in With Rick” (featuring Rick Calamaro, Sheen’s assistant) in a format closely akin to a local access cable show.

Early on during the one hour broadcast, Sheen revealed a new tattoo on his inner left wrist that said “winning,” one of his latest catchphrases.

During another segment Sheen listed off the people he’d like to be for ten minutes: Colin Farrell, San Francisco Giants pitcher Brian “Fear the Beard” Wilson, and Sean Penn.

Sheen stated during the broadcast that, depending on reaction, the show may return on a daily basis.