With the launch of Paramount+ in the UK, the first three episodes of The Man Who Fell to Earth are right here, right now. (The episode titles include some nods to Bowie as well through the series – hello series premiere 'Hallo Spaceboy', for example.)
After that, you can expect a new episode every Wednesday – airing a number of weeks behind the US, which has just two more episodes of the first season to air at time of writing.
The 1976 science fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth is considered a substantial and significant work, It’s the story of an alien who comes to our planet looking for a way to ship water. (Excerpt from Theage.com)
Based on the Walter Tevis novel and a sequel to the chilling David Bowie movie of the same name, The Man Who Fell To Earth stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Faraday, an alien who lands on Earth at a pivotal moment in its history. (Digitalspy)
The film is also famous because it starred David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, the Althean alien who comes to earth. Now, a new television series with the same title picks up the story some 45 years later, with the arrival of a new alien, Faraday, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, to complete previous Bowie's mission.
Ejiofor says the so-called “45-year sequel” leans into the original film in that the work created some of the characters featured in the series, but also – perhaps more significantly – because it sets the tone for the series. Especially when it comes to Bowie himself. The Man Who Fell to Earth is on Showtime.
Bowie was heavily immersed in the world of art, and in 1994 was invited to join the academics-only board of Modern Painters magazine, where he interviewed artists such as Tracey Emin, Jeff Koons, and Damien Hirst. He also painted throughout his life, and was once quoted as saying, “Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own…It can change the way I feel in the mornings.”
