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Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014
TheSync writes "The long-awaited remake of Carl Sagan's amazing Cosmos series, Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, will be coming to Fox television next year. It will star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Surprisingly, Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy fame is an executive producer. MacFarlane was introduced to Carl Sagan's widow Ann Druyan by deGrasse Tyson, and MacFarlane helped them pitch the show to Fox executives."
In the Fox version the Universe is 6000 years old and the Earth is at the center of the Universe.
Tyson has his own show, now. Nothing against the man, and I can really laugh when he is being funny - but isn't this a bit over the top ? OTOH, popularizing science is a great and lofty goal...
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Let's just hope it doesn't feature a fat oafish stereotypical insecure male, a hot wife, and a talking animal
It will star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Am I the only one who's sick of this guy? Does he have to be in every program even tangentially related to astronomy?
There's no more Carl Sagan, no more Bill Nye on television, nothing except Mythbusters to inspire future generations of engineers and scientific thinkers. This has made my day, there may just be hope for the future yet.
Producers should've just put Mike Tyson in there. That would have been a blast!
Then I will watch for sure.
Nah, only Sagan could do it. There's nobody around these days that could possibly....
It will star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
Uhm..nevermind.
cosmos and come upon Uranus...
*giggity giggity goo*
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Carl Sagan - the Billy Mays of Science.
Neil deGrasse Tyson will be an excellent show host. I'm looking forward to it, although it will be hard to beat The Elegant Universe series offered on PBS.
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the ridiculous worship of Neil deGrasse Tyson would start to abate.
I actually just got through watching the original Cosmos series on Hulu. For 1980, it's a very entertaining show and accessible to normals. And anything that stands up against the tide of really awful, retarded television that has popped up in the last 10 years is good.
Reading some of the backstory, Seth McFarlane appears to be putting his money behind this as sort of an anti-Family Guy force, so hopefully it should be very good. Having it on Fox is also a good idea - there's probably more money being splashed around it, and it doesn't have the "stigma" of being on PBS.
Anything that sparks even the slightest interest in science is a good thing, even if it's wrapped up in an entertaining story. My man Carl said something like, "Everyone is born with natural curiosity. Most people get it stomped out of them early. A few manage to survive and become scientists."
Sagan must be spinning in his grave.
Will it have billions and billions of Hollywood stars? Was Fox thinking of billions and billions of dollars?
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I was *really* hoping Prof. Brian Cox would do this one day. His passion is inspiring. Neil deGrasse Tyson comes off as a bit arrogant to me, but I guess it could be worse. Thank God it isn't Michelle Thaller. I'm sure she's a fine lady, it just grates on my nerves the way she talks; like she's teaching 1st graders that the sun "rotates" around the earth.
Are they planning on re-making Cosmos as a fictional comedy?
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The news is that FOX announced this will actually air in the 2013-2014 season at their upfronts on Monday. Before that, it was unclear as to when it would air.
I await the episode featuring Kirk Cameron and a Banana.
Heh, funny. I can't stand Brian Cox. I just find his manner irritating, and as a result I don't watch any of the shows he is on.
Just goes to show the variety in peoples tastes, eh? :)
I've not imagined Neil DeGrasse Tyson as a host, but I am willing to give it a shot and see how it goes. Who knows, he might actually be good at it.
Macfarlane should have been passed over for this for one reason: He completely bombed the 2013 Oscars. Its not something you have to improv or give a great deal of consideration to; the entire event is scripted. The audience is known, and every variable has been populated for your consideration. Despite having a completely controlled environment, he still managed to fail miserably. His irreverant banter with Shatner, juvenile Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles number that just seemed to drag on ad-nauseum, and generally sexist hosting of the Oscars with deadpan jokes and universally reviled criticism should have been a red flag for Fox. Instead you're taking the guy who made Family Guy, the Cleveland Show, Ted, and American Dad and asking him to participate in a documentary about the cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson juxtaposed against Macfarlanes habitual 'coonery bafoonery' portrayal of black characters is a gut-wretching consideration.
Morgan Freeman is more qualified as an executive producer based on his experience with Nova.
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"If you wish to make a science show from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Why surprisingly? Cause Family Guy is all fart jokes...right?
Those ones with Stewie and the nerdy stuff like Star Trek and Star Wars are actually the writings of Seth Green who's known for his Phd. in Astrophysics and action figure collection.
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Fox? Not watching it. I don't care, they're assholes and I'm not providing eyeballs for their advertisers. I don't watch Fox or Siffy, so I missed Battlestar Galactica until it came out on DVD.
Neil you killed Pluto. Fuck you.
Silence is a state of mime.
They should have cast William Atherton
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we can expect it gets cancelled less than halfway through its run
And i hate using that word!!
Didn't Robot Chicken already do this three months ago?
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... You know, Dad, You're a real jerk!
They're going to leave out that whole "evolution" part.
The average Fox viewer will only understand Cosmos if it is reduced to "fireball warms planet but not too much" and shots of a man's testicles getting sucked into a black hole.
Fox. Its got what plants crave.
The physicist, not the actor.
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Carl Sagan had a voice that could lull you into a trance -
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
I'm confused.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
There's no more Carl Sagan, no more Bill Nye on television, nothing except Mythbusters to inspire future generations of engineers and scientific thinkers.
PBS is the obvious response.
But there are others and there is more to science and to scientific thinking than engineering.
National Geographic Channel
Smithsonian Channel
Science Channel
The Discovery Channel --- in its many incarnations --- has a lot to offer if you are willing to poke around a bit.
Listen to his Star Talk podcast. It's really good (though he has a strong tendency to interrupt).
Neil deGrasse Tyson comes off as a bit arrogant to me,
Indeed.
I completely understand his "I shall suffer no fools any longer" attitude, but he does put a barrier where there shouldn't be any.
Also, he seems to be aware that he is often rather negative in his approach to explanation, with his tendency to end his talks and discussions with a joke.
Brian Cox on the other hand seems much more opened, approachable and optimistically enthusiastic.
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choices are:
1) after first episode
2) after third episode
3) after 10 episodes, remaining episodes only on DVD
4) after 22 episodes, wait a few years, then brought back for another 11 only to be cancelled again after 8 are aired
5) after 25 years and counting.
Also taking bets on when this show is aired:
1) Sundays
2) Fridays
3) Every other Friday
4) Randomly so nobody knows the show exists( i.e. Firefly scheduling).
5) Sometime after baseball ends
Well at least if Seth McFarlane is producing it, the amount of schedule fuckery Fox will do to the show will be far less than if Joss Whedon was producing it.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
I bet the sex tips will be terrible.
Wait....Cosmos?
Well, I bet they will still be terrible...
You don't have to imagine. Take a look at his hosting on Nova Science Now. That's essentially what the new program will be like.
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... that a dude who is totally obsessed with space and Sci-Fi in general would be producing this? Especially when said dude clearly has the pull needed with Fox to get this off the ground; something Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan clearly lack. Without MacFarlane this project would have, at best, been produced by PBS and seen by relatively few people.
You might remember that Carl Sagan objected to his name being used for an Apple product in development, so they changed the name from "Carl Sagan" to "Butthead Astronomer." All hail the new "Butthead Astronomer!"
Honestly, Carl Sagan was legitimate scientist and college professor at Cornell University who leveraged his university lectures into the Cosmos series. Neil deGrasse Tyson has some pretty big shoes to fill.
It will star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
YESSS!
Cosmos was unique. 33 years ago an astronomer / story teller with a luminous passion for the past, present, and future of science stepped into the vacuum of imagination that followed Star Trek, bewitching and enthralling a generation of scientist wanna-bes. Sagan thrilled us largely because the world revealed by Cosmos was a joyous surprise.
But rather than inventing a new series with fresh ideas, Cosmos II is just an attempt to reanimate dead flesh. It's a frankensteinian monster pieced together from someone else's long dead body of work. Magic can't be cloned,
Fox is not PBS. Tyson is not Sagan. Cosmos should be allowed to rest in peace.
Green strikes me as a pretty smart guy, but I don't think he has a PhD. I don't believe he even went to college.
Perhaps you're thinking of Brian May, the Queen guitarist who got a PhD in astrophysics.
Or maybe the physist Brian Green?? :)
As a kid I was really fortunate to grow up with tons of good science shows. Mr Wizard's World, 3-2-1 Contact, Bill Nye, Beakman, and tons of various programs on PBS.
Nowadays there's really nothing about science. I wanted to like Mythbusters but they got rid of all the science material and just focused on explosions. So it's about time we had a science show for everyone to enjoy again.
Especially now that we are facing anti-education, anti-science, anti-intelligence messages from the right, it's important that we give these topics a boost.
GET THE FUCK OVER IT, ALREADY!
Sure, it kills you that dirty Brits and Frenchies and others can say they discovered planets and good Gaaaaaaaaaaaad-fearin' red-blooded 'Mericans can't, but it's time for you to grow up, quit crying and stop behaving like some 12-year-old gay emo kid.
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Brian Cox on the other hand seems much more opened, approachable and optimistically enthusiastic.
Yet every time I see his face I get the urge to punch it. Maybe it would help if I were British.
And yet we still haven't figured out how gravity works. Maybe we need less TV shows about physics and more spent on new approaches to trying to solve the fundamental problems in physics.
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Family Guy is crap. Really. SouthParks' dissing of it said it all. Random disconnected one-liners with no overarching view, no subtext. It's crap.
Don't get me wrong. I LIKE Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but Carl Sagan was special. He was a scientist with the soul of a poet. Neil's a great scientist, but I just don't think he has the poetry.