Status: Cancelled
Aired: 2022, One Season Totaling 10 Episodes
Series Premiere: April 24, 2022
Network: Showtime
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Jimmi Simpson, Kate Mulgrew, Sonya Cassidy
Series Website: www.sho.com/
Description: Based on the Walter Tevis novel of the same name and the iconic film that starred David Bowie, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH will follow a new alien character (Ejiofor) who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future. Showtime.com
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Why Was It Cancelled? This show debuted with little promotion and only averaged a 0.02 rating (two one-hundredths of a ratings point) based on same-day viewing for the 18-49 demographic across its ten-episode run. The premium cable channels do not pay as much attention to the same-day viewing because their revenue comes from subscriptions not advertising. But those still act as a leading indicator of audience size and a 0.02 score is quite small for a show that almost certainly had a sizeable budget. It likely made up some slack with delayed and digital viewing as well as encore runs, but not enough to convince network execs that the show was driving much in the way of new subscriptions. More on that at this link.
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