The father-son duo is back in business as Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen headline AMC’s new comedy Happy Jack, set to premiere in 2027. The multi-camera series reunites the actors on screen while giving Charlie Sheen a particularly fitting route back to sitcom television. With production planned for Los Angeles in early 2027, the project already has the makings of a very different chapter in the Sheens’ long-running screen partnership. 

The cast is small for now, but the central pairing carries plenty of history. Here is who is playing whom in Happy Jack.

AMC has ordered six episodes of the half-hour comedy, with the series filming in front of a live studio audience at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. That location adds another neat bit of sitcom DNA, since it is also where Two and a Half Men was filmed, making the setting especially familiar territory for Charlie Sheen.

Charlie Sheen as Jack Chambers: Sheen plays the titular character, a lifelong underachiever and father of two grown daughters. Jack has not exactly mastered the responsible-parent playbook, but circumstances force him to reconsider where he stands in his daughters’ lives. His daughter Kate runs his company and helps keep him on track, while Sam is the more free-spirited of the two.

Martin Sheen as Jack’s father: As Variety reports, Martin plays the older generation in the family, with the series suggesting that Jack’s father deserves considerable credit for how his granddaughters turned out. That gives Martin a built-in role as both a comic counterweight and a reminder of the family history Jack cannot quite escape.

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For viewers who have followed Charlie Sheen from Platoon and Wall Street through Spin City, Two and a Half Men and Anger Management, the casting has an almost circular quality. Martin Sheen brings an entirely different but equally recognizable screen legacy, including Apocalypse Now, The West Wing and The Departed.

The series arrives after a particularly public chapter in Charlie Sheen’s career. His television run has included enormous sitcom success, followed by the turbulent period surrounding his departure from Two and a Half Men. Happy Jack marks his return to a leading sitcom role after Anger Management, which concluded in 2014.

Happy Jack is not the first time Charlie and Martin Sheen have stepped into a father-son dynamic. They previously played father and son in Wall Street and No Code of Conduct, while their shared credits also include Cadence, Free Money and Hot Shots! Part Deux. Martin Sheen also appeared alongside his son in television projects including Spin City, Two and a Half Men and Anger Management.

AMC is also taking Happy Jack to international buyers at MIPCOM in October, giving the project an early push beyond the domestic launch. Happy Jack is scheduled to premiere on AMC and AMC+ in 2027. With Charlie and Martin Sheen sharing the frame again, the series has plenty of built-in history before the first laugh even lands. 

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