Art will continue to imitate life when Two and a Half Men returns to our screens.

It's claimed Charlie Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, will be killed off.  TMZ reports, the show's chief writer and producer Chuck Lorre wants to make sure Sheen can never come back on the former hit show.

Ashton Kutcher has already been announced as his replacement, after Sheen's contract was torn up following a series of drug and alcohol fuelled incidents earlier this year.

The return episode will be filmed on August 5, giving the writers and producers plenty of time to come up with a death scenario. One already in the works include Charlie driving a car over a cliff, in a case of art imitating life.

Two of Sheen's cars went down a cliff on Mulholland Drive.