Selma Blair Cast In Charlie Sheen's 'Anger Management'

It's official! Selma Blair has been cast in Charlie Sheen's new FX dark comedy "Anger Management."

Blair, who last starred in the ill-fated NBC comedy "Kath & Kim," will play Kate. According to EW.com, Kate, who's described as Charlie’s "best friend with benefits," a fellow therapist who helps Charlie control his anger and uses radical approach with patients.

"Anger Management" will see Sheen playing a therapist who leads two therapy groups -- one in a prison and one un-incarcerated. He also live a complicated life, including an ex-wife (Shawnee Smith) and 13-year-old obsessive compulsive daughter. FX has ordered 10 initial episodes, and as long as those episodes reach a certain ratings mark, Sheen's series will be greenlit for an unprecedented 90 additional episodes.

During the winter Television Critics Association press tour, showrunner Bruce Helford told a group of critics that, "Everyone in the world calls to say they want to do [this] show."

A premiere date for "Anger Management" has not yet been set, but production is reportedly set to start in March.

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[Papi-Chullo]

04:39 PM on 02/08/2012

400 a night....OMG charlie....slow down.

[Papi-Chullo]

11:30 AM on 02/07/2012

ahhhhhhhh.....ummmmmmmm....... ruff nite last night the DREAM POLICE (Cheap Trick) are back, giving me some sensitivity training, and I didn't even know their was a racial issue here, with the wonderful people at the HUFFINGTON POST, or the good people in the EDITORS Dept.

Maybe it's George Orwells THOUGHT POLICE........... high tech advancements get me everytime....

ANywyas, it was a struggle yesterday, dealing with my temper, I mean my TEMPER...... ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH --- OH NO ----- HERE I GO AGAIN!

[Papi-Chullo]

02:24 PM on 02/06/2012

ahhhh, back in session.....

Well Selma, I had an interseting morning, on the Miley Demi headline article...... I've seemed to have held my temper, and did NOT get bannished from the community, and sent into exile......

BUT -- OOOHHHHHHH, I wanted to rip into them posters....... THEY HAD NO CONCERN FOR THEIR FELLOW MAN............ and sometimes I want to ERUPT...........but, I weinied out and kept my calm, and composure, and actually made it past the EDITORS DESK at the wonderful HUFFINGTON POST...........

That's all..... say Hi to CHARLIE for me!

I feel so much better now! Thank you counselor!

[Papi-Chullo]

11:25 AM on 02/05/2012

PART I

CHARLIE..... Charlie, Charlie, Charlie.........
I was bannished from the community yesterday, set out in exile.... ARGHHHHHHHH....... My temper had reached it PEAK -- A KILAUEA (Volcano big island hawaii) type intensity....... kinda like CHARLIE SHEEN in the old days...........

Now the days have passed, and CHARLIE SHEEN is a counselor, an anger management counselor.... and I will need to set a complete year of appointment dates, to help CONTROL MY PASSION within my POSTS here at HUFFINGTON POST.....

Your selection of women cast in this is abundantly clear, your taste is improving for the finer things in life........SELMA BLAIR and SHAWNEE SMITH looks like a class act of talent on the screen, that impresses the audience, as it does me..............

[Papi-Chullo]

11:24 AM on 02/05/2012

PART II

Ahhhh CHARLIE, whatever happened to the OLD days.... rememeber when, oh wait not that, how about this..... whoooa NO, not that, well I guees I'll need counseling to get past those days too...........

HEY, can I drop into this blog from time to time for advice/counseling.......... I know noone will answer, but at least it gives me a place to - vent....Vent....VENT...... AHHHHHH TO SMELL WITH EVERYTHING........... ME and CHARLIE WILL RULE THE WORLD SOMEDAY........
OH WAIT............Oh Wait.............oh wait..................I forgot, I'm here for counseling
sorry about that!

[Al Schrader]

08:49 AM on 02/05/2012

I worked with a girl whom a judge had take mandatory anger management courses.
She was always wearing bandages. The last time I saw her she had her arm in a sling.
I knew not ask her, so I asked someone else what happened to her. They said she locked her keys in the house, so she took her bare arm and smashed-out the windows to get in. Wow. She was handy to have around for opening cans and stuff....Al-

[Papi-Chullo]

11:55 AM on 02/05/2012

I like that one Al..... a good sense of humor.. open bottles with her teeth too??????

[Al Schrader]

12:19 PM on 02/05/2012

I'm sure. She could be nice and she was very attractive - super model quality.
But, on "those days" look -out you could, oops, get something stabbed into you.
Now she works the perfume counter at Macy's. I would have considered her but I'm a slow healer and a bleeder....Al-

[Tim Day]

01:35 AM on 02/05/2012

I'm not sure who Thelma Blair is...But if she is a big actress and is always mad with her kind of money, then why are they wtitting about her...Did she used to be Hayeck, or Peonolpe Cruz?

[Papi-Chullo]

11:51 AM on 02/05/2012

THELMA was a fine young lady back when she lived on the farm, then THELMA made her way to Hollywood, and THOMEDAY she will be a fine young actress........... trust me on this one....

CHARLIE - CHARLIE -- WE CAN RULE THE WORLD!!!!!

[Tim Day]

12:25 PM on 02/05/2012

What does this mean? Is Thelma a comic or on drugs like Sheen? I just don't know who she is

[Carolyn Bonnett]

08:32 PM on 02/04/2012

When will they STOP trying to make Selma Blair happen? She's as bland as Katherine Heigl!

[Papi-Chullo]

11:49 AM on 02/05/2012

NOT bland, but she can play a normal person? Not everyone is all glitz and glamour walking the street......look at all these stars nowdays, they walk around unshaven (where did that come from anyways).

She captures a unique look all within itslef, and I think it works - WELL.

[Carolyn Bonnett]

12:38 PM on 02/05/2012

Yeah, cause anorexia is so normal and non-Hollywood for starlets like SB...

[cmel57]

04:29 PM on 02/04/2012

She has no talent and he could have picked a better actress for his show.

[Papi-Chullo]

09:43 AM on 02/06/2012

have to wait and see, But I like her look, nice body, pretty face, NOT hollywood extreme on the upper deck, real classy normal, hopefully NOT pretentious (like me) (i looked up the definition, and yeah, that is definatley me...lol)

I hope Charluie can be seen, be around some hollywood stars without the X-Rated title, that CHarlie just would NOT shy away from................ CHARLIE is CHARLIE, and I love em for it....
but hopefully this change in his future will be good for him........ I just don't like seeing him in all the trouble....... even though it is HILARIOUS...........
ahhhh CHARLIE SCREW EVERYTHING..... LET'S RULE THE WORLD

[loreli48]

01:23 PM on 02/04/2012

Good Luck Charlie. I will definitely tune in. Please pick the rest of the cast very carefully. I am rooting for you!!!!!!!

[iwoorikhj]

10:25 PM on 02/04/2012

tune in? i would'nt miss this if it was the end of the world,,,where can i buy stock in it?

[jlv327]

09:07 AM on 02/05/2012

Is there an IPO ? I'll be watching...

[Papi-Chullo]

09:44 AM on 02/06/2012

yeah, me too :]

[ptrgamb]

07:02 AM on 02/04/2012

She appears to be attractive

[Papi-Chullo]

11:44 AM on 02/05/2012

I think she has a real class look............ something Charlie needs to be associated with....
I think they look good together, the look works good together, even if NOT a couple.............

[delmarwood]

11:26 PM on 02/03/2012

if there ever was a celebrity desperately in need of implants she top on the tiny list, sheen might think shes the boy from 21/2 men changing shows

[Papi-Chullo]

11:46 AM on 02/05/2012

WATCH IT BUSTER......... I'm a patient under care from an anger managment issue, and SHE is my counselor, of sorts!

[Papi-Chullo]

06:59 PM on 02/03/2012

ahhhh CHARLIE.... your back ON TOP again..... but CHarlie, listen to this a new series based on the republican primaries..... follow me................the NEWT vs. ROMNEY campaign attacks as a "pilot" preview......

Then onto behind the scenes during the primaries , then onto politics as usual..... I think this series (a comedy), runs as long as "West Wing" with your dad Martin Sheen.

Only this series will NOT be "West Wing", it will be called "Right Wing"....................... ahhhhhhhhhh CHARLIE, it sounds too good to be true.

[jlv327]

09:10 AM on 02/05/2012

And---This show has to do with politics--how? What? Ok? I hope my post makes as much sense as yours !!! lol

[Papi-Chullo]

11:30 AM on 02/05/2012

ahhh, I was just throwing out a new project for Charlie, but he's busy with this other project Anger Managment........... I think the "Right Wing" thing has good potential, a "serious comedy" of behind the scene realities.... kinda like wife swapping issues, be it reality or just conversational comedy........... to who actually does Newts wig............ ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, let me write this PILOT..... I think it works, but ONLY with CHARLIE playing NEWT.........

[Seth Fosi]

06:48 PM on 02/03/2012

I do love me some Selma Blair! Sigh ....