Cosmos coming back with NdG Tyson!

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Fox Orders 13-Episode Sequel To Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' Docu-Series With Seth MacFarlane Producing For 2013 Launch

Yes, if this article isn't a hoax, the guy who does Family Guy is working with Ann Druyan to bring back Cosmos, this time hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (the only person I can think of who could do it justice).

Fox has greenlighted Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, a 13-part docu-series from Family Guy creator MacFarlane and late Sagan's original collaborators – his widow, writer/producer Ann Druyan and astrophysicist Steven Soter. Envisioned as a successor to the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning original 13-part program, which was hosted by Sagan, the new Cosmos series will be hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

According to the producers, the new series will tell "the story of how human beings began to comprehend the laws of nature and find our place in space and time. It will take viewers to other worlds and travel across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience."

I'm allowing myself to be cautiously excited about this. I don't want to wait till 2013, though.

Two other comments I have to make:

- By working on his Flintstones reboot at the same time, McFarlane will be producing one documentary for atheists and one for creationists.

- If you've ever seen this video, you thought of it immediately upon reading the headline:

[Animavore]

Shamelessly robbed from RatSkep.

Over three decades later, Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking, brilliant 13-part TV series Cosmos:A Personal Voyage is finally going to get a sequel. Cosmos, which originally aired in 1980 and was rerun many times over the following decade, is widely regarded as one of the first, and best, TV shows to make science accessible to everyone. You can watch the show now on Hulu, but despite its brilliance it is still a show from over 30 years ago, and you can tell — the special effects are primitive by today’s standards, but more importantly some of the content has been superseded by discoveries in the intervening years.

So I think we can all agree it’s high time someone made a sequel to it, and now someone is! In partnership with Sagan’s colleagues Ann Druyan (who is also his widow) and Steven Soter, Seth MacFarlane — yes, that Seth MacFarlane — is going to produce a new 13-part series to serve as a sequel and modern update to Sagan’s masterpiece. Taking over the hosting duties will be none other than well-known astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who has among other things served as host of NOVA ScienceNOW on PBS for the past five years, so has plenty of experience making science accessible to the general public. It would be difficult to think of anyone who would be better able to succeed the late, great Carl Sagan. The folks working on it are going to take their time and do it right — it’s not scheduled to air until sometime in 2013.

Continued here: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/co ... sse-tyson/

[leo-rcc]

I've not seen this confirmed on the website of Neil deGrasse Tyson, but I think it would be awesome if it is true.

[Animavore]

He has a website?

[leo-rcc]

Yes

[Gawdzilla Sama]

But you can't have the link.

[Animavore]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[FBM]

It will be watched by billions and billions...


I see a merge in the near future...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It will be watched by bill-yuns and bill-yuns...

[leo-rcc]

do not click on the smileyface

[Animavore]

Well I've already Googled it now at this stage

[leo-rcc]

Good, then I'll remove the link again.

[Animavore]

Fine

[Pappa]

Neil deGrasse Tyson should be cloned and used to mass produce a new breed of super science teacher.

And they should all wear jetpacks whilst teaching too.