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Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @01:29AM from the cool-swirly-spooky-music dept.

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."

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Re:Let me guess by T.E.D. · 2013-05-14 02:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

Think of it as a Neil deGrasse Tyson show done a bit in the style of Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
The guy is so enthusiastic and charasmatic that he's a regular vistor on the late-night talk show circuit, and I believe currently holds the record for the most guest appearances on Colbert. He has 1.2 million followers on twitter. I think he's got what it takes to pull this off.