"Cosmos" Will Get a Sequel Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson

[arcane1]

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can tell — the special effects are primitive by today’s standards, but more importantly some of the content has been superseded by discoveries in the intervening years.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.

more:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/cosmos-to-get-a-sequel-hosted-by-neil-degrasse-tyson/

This will be fabulous despite its prime-time FOX location :bounce:

[supernova]

1. Stewie in outer space!

:bounce:

[msongs]

2. "billions and billions" - wonder what changes there will be. much has changed since then nt

[Tesha]

12. Several more billions; inflation and all that! (NT)

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. It couldn't happen to a smarter, nicer guy - Neil deGrasse Tyson.

[arcane1]

4. He has definitely inherited Sagans gift of sharing the sense of awe and wonder

He's great on Nova Science Now :D

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. "I was a nerd who could kick your butt"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EzV4sl0_1w

ON EDIT TO ADD: I love his idea of a REAL time machine.

[Fred Engels]

18. cool bridge rectifier

:D

[HysteryDiagnosis]

20. My dear Fred.... you first post was a response to one of mine, I shall forever cherish

this thread. Welcome to DU now stand in the corner. :)

[arcane1]

21. Thanks for the link, I love his appearances at "Beyond Belief"!!!

He does a great one about the history of intelligent design in the 2006 one too :)

[hifiguy]

6. The best, most mind-expanding, thrilling and

inspirational television series EVER. I've long thought that Dr. Tyson is the only person who could fill the late, great Carl Sagan's shoes as a popularizer of real science.

Two things in the final episode of Cosmos, "Who Speaks For the Earth," literally brought tears to my eyes when I saw it last a few years ago - of sadness hearing the horrifying story of Hypatia and the sacking of the Library at Alexandria and of utter joy and wonder on watching the slick little animation of life evolving from microbial forms to the creatures of today as Sagan said "these are just a few of the marvelous things that hydrogen atoms can do given five billion years." I still get chills thinking of it - how much more marvelous, wondrous and life-affirming this is than any tales of angry, vengeful skywizards. "Cosmos" was one of those things, like the music of Beethoven or Mozart, that makes you proud to be a human being.

:woohoo::applause::woohoo::applause:

[tridim]

15. IMO it has been leapfrogged by several series on Science Channel

"Through The Wormhole" and "The Universe" are both excellent. Brian Cox is great too, in a Sagan sort of way.

Sagan's genius is certainly cemented in history. I miss him.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

16. +1000 bump

[hifiguy]

30. Thank you,

sir/madam. Thank you.

[WillyT]

7. Thanks For The Heads-Up, Dude !!!

:bounce::woohoo::bounce:

:hi:



:kick: & Rec!!!

[MinneapolisMatt]

8. I love him!

YAY!

[Donnachaidh]

9. I still miss Carl Sagan -- Cosmos was awesome

I still watch it. He really made space accessible to everyone.

[Faygo Kid]

10. Outstanding. Neil deGrasse Tyson will do a great job.

[exboyfil]

13. Weird my oldest will be the same age

I was when Cosmos came out. I am so looking forward to this. I loved the episode of a science show in which Tyson explained why he killed Pluto as a planet. He went to the hometown of Tombaugh and was getting a shave with a straight razor. The funniest part is that, while Tombaugh was not from a recognized sundown town, you have a few near this town and it is 96% white - I don't know but I thought I got a little racial tension from the episode as well. I don't want to slam Burdett unjustly.

[Qutzupalotl]

11. FYI, Tyson will be on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight.

7pm PDT, HBO.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. I'll watch

and oh my... that will be good... even if I have to watch it on FOX

This also makes me wonder what is going on at the grand scale of things though

[Permanut]

17. One of the best programs evah...

and Tyson is one of the few qualified to fill Sagan's shoes. This is fantastic news.

[Wounded Bear]

19. For some reason, I expected more criticism of Niel DeGrasse Tyson...

I'm not sure why. :shrug: I like him. He seems to have the same ability that Sagan had of making science generally accessible to the common person.

This is a great idea!

Looking forward to it.

[arcane1]

22. Why would people do that?

Of course, he could be a teabagger for all I know, but I've never heard him talk about anything but science :shrug:

[Wounded Bear]

26. I guess I remember some of the "populist" decrying of Sagan...

maybe we're past that.

[Better Believe It]

23. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the right person to do it. He has Sagan's ability to explain complex ideas

in such a way that even I can understand them!

:)

[Lex]

28. Totally agree!

Love me some Neil deGrasse Tyson.

[AnnieBW]

24. Judging by other good shows on FOX Primetime

It's too cerebral for their target audience, and will wind up in the dustbin of good shows cancelled by FUX.

[arcane1]

25. I'm not too hip to the FOX/National Geographic connection...

but I don't think Tyson would willingly promote bullshit, and if the show features other fools who do, he'll bail on it. I cannot imagine him selling out on science.

[Better Believe It]

29. It will be a 13 part series. Hard to "cancel" that.

[Lorien]

27. Excellent. nt