CHARLIE Sheen's 'Two and a Half Men' character Charlie Harper is to be killed off driving a car over a cliff show insiders claim.

The deeply dark plotline is to ensure there can be no chance of a return for troubled star Sheen.

Sources close to the show told celebrity website TMZ that: “Although the first show won't be filmed until August 5, producers have been kicking around scenarios, which include Charlie driving a car over a cliff. 

“Of course, it would be art imitating life, because two of Charlie Sheen's cars went down a cliff on Mulholland Drive.”

It is also believed he is being replaced by a new character played by Ashton Kutcher.

Sheen's Charlie Harper role won him three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series.

But he was dumped by show bosses after media coverage of his drink and drug problems.