Figured this deserved its own thread but amazing news for us space geeks, the sequel to simply
the BEST space TV series ever is being brought to us by none other than:
Neil deGrasse Tyson (host)
Ann Druyan (Widow of Carl Sagan, co-creator of Cosmos.)
AND, the cool part the guy spearheading this Seth Mcfarlane a HUGE science nerd.
Quote:
More than three decades after it aired, Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking, brilliant 13-part TV series Cosmos:A Personal Voyage will finally get a sequel.
Cosmos, which originally ran 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 more than 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can tell — the special effects are primitive by today’s standards, but more importantly some of the content has been superseded by discoveries in the intervening years.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, 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.
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http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08...egrasse-tyson/
The opening tune of this series still haunts me, there is not a moment in my child hood which more excited my imagination than this TV series, I was hooked on science after the very first show.
500 Million people tuned into the original series, we can only hope the new one reaches half that.