Showtime has canceled The Man Who Fell to Earth. We have heard from reliable sources that the premium cable network funded by Paramount Global has decided not to renew The Man Who Fell On Earth Season 2. However, the show’s creators, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet decided to change their minds midway through filming the first season, so this is a bit of a surprise.
“Our thanks to the extraordinary Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet, John Hlavin and Sarah Timberman who did a great job of turning the David Bowie film into such a resonant tale for our times,” a Showtime spokesperson said in a statement to THR. “And kudos to a wondrous cast led by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris and Bill Nighy for bringing it to life. Alex and Jenny originally intended The Man Who Fell To Earth to be a close-ended story. While we flirted with the idea of expanding it into a second season, we all ultimately decided to embrace it as a one-season story well told.”
Originally picked up for a full season on CBS All Access (now Paramount+) in 2019, The Man Who Fell to Earth is based on the 1963 novel The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis. David Bowie starred in the film adaptation in 1976. In the drama, Ejiofor plays a new alien that crashes on Earth, a character who was carefully written to avoid comparisons to the one made famous by the late singer.
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The drama, which also starred Harris, Nighy, Jimmi Simpson, and Kate Mulgrew, was transferred to Paramount+’s corporate sibling Showtime in March 2021 because it was a better fit for Showtime’s lineup of premium cable channels.
Producers Hlavin, Kurtzman, and Lumet (Star Trek: Discovery) all worked as co-showrunners (Shooter). Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Heather Kadin, Rola Bauer, and Françoise Guyonnet of Studiocanal served as executive producers.
The drama was produced by CBS Studios, Timberman/Beverly, and Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout. Tevis’s novel and the film adaptation from 1976 starring David Bowie are both properties of Studiocanal.
According to our sources, the decision to cancel further episodes of Man Who Fell to Earth was made well before the recent executive change at Showtime’s parent company Paramount Global in which David Nevins who led a portfolio that included Showtime left and Chris McCarthy was given control of the cable network. In particular, McCarthy a rising star at the erstwhile Viacom has not put much effort into producing premium scripted content. McCarthy is in charge of a large network empire that includes MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, and the Paramount Network.
All of Taylor Sheridan’s linear and streaming shows are vetted by McCarthy’s subordinate, Keith Cox. In his time at the helm, McCarthy has largely driven Comedy Central and other networks out of the competitive premium scripted market.
Newly premiered series Let the Right One In and American Gigolo join returning favorites like Billions, The Chi, City on a Hill, Yellowjackets, and Your Honor on Showtime’s extensive list of scripted offerings.
Meanwhile, Kurtzman and Lumet have ongoing overall partnerships with CBS Studios, and they are developing new Star Trek episodes for both Paramount+ and Showtime.
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