The first episode of Charlie Sheen's new comedy Anger Management opens with the actor hitting a punching bag and shouting,"You can't fire me. I quit!" It ends with his character jumping into bed with a hot chick.

That behavior may look and sound like the character on his old TV show, hit comedy Two And a Half Men, as well as the real-life Sheen. But the Hollywood bad boy who was fired from Men last year in a public dispute with its makers, insists that Anger Management, which debuts on the FX network today, is different.

Sheen's character on Men, Charlie Harper, was a boozing, womanizing bachelor who had failed to grow up. The new Charlie Goodson on Anger Management has a teenage daughter and is fully aware he needs to deal with his anger.

But if Sheen's fans tune in today, they will be right to think that both Charlies, the thrice divorced actor and one-time cocaine addict, sound a lot like this new creation.

Reuters