Charlie Sheen's New Sitcom Picked Up: Why Did FX Buy It?

The Method Behind The Madness?
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Why did FX order potentially 100 episodes of a sitcom starring an actor who disastrously flamed out in a media explosion of drugs, hookers, quasi-intelligible rants and legal action just six months ago?

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