Starman Opens Series Eight Of Shameless

Frankie drank his money, The little that he made…

The brand new series eight of the grim but hilarious Manchester-based (where else?) Shameless has just kicked off on Channel 4 in the UK.

The first song to be heard in the first episode was a short snippet of David Bowie’s Starman, (which accompanied part of an amusing spoof of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind) in one of the increasingly surreal sub-plots that have become more frequent on the show in the last couple of series.

If you missed it, you can watch the episode here, or just view the Close Encounters spoof here, which contains Starman.

The clip is called Cogito Ergo Sum and this is Channel 4’s summation of it: “It’s the usual from Frank: philosophy, arts and crafts, and… aliens?”