New York, Jan 16 : The president of the FX network has said that he will take the gamble to launch `Anger Management' because "this is a different Charlie Sheen" and "I believe in redemption".

The network, which hasn't seen a pilot episode or even a script of the new Charlie Sheen sitcom, plans to launch in June.

John Landgraf told TV critics Sunday that the pickup is not "a cynical publicity stunt."

FX has committed to 10 episodes, then 90 more if it likes what it has seen.

The show is based on the 2003 Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson movie of the same title, with Sheen playing a man struggling with his career while raising a 13-year-old daughter.

"This is the character Charlie ought to be playing now," the New York Daily News quoted Landgraf as saying.

"He has a checkered past, but he is very self-aware and he wants to do more positive things in his life," he said.

Landgraf also said that the former `Two And A Half Men' star personally pitched the show to several networks and he thinks last year's bad boy has gotten his act together.

"I think we saw a different Charlie Sheen than we saw around the time he was leaving `Two and a Half Men'," he added. (ANI)