The new series will be produced with the National Geographic Channel, which will show episodes after they run on Fox.ĭeadline Hollywood reports Fox has greenlighted Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, a 13-part docu-series envisioned as a successor to the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning original 13-part program, which was hosted by Carl Sagan. MacFarlane the 'Cosmos' team obtained meetings with Peter Rice, the chairman of Fox Broadcasting, and Kevin Reilly, the network's entertainment president, who gave the series a green light last year. 'We wanted to go to the largest possible audience and attract people who'd never even thought about it.'īut with the support of Mr. 'We weren't interested in going to the audience that already knew that it loved science,' Ms. Tyson and Steven Soter, another collaborator on the original series, pitched a new version of 'Cosmos' to 'the usual television network suspects' that did not quite see mass appeal in the series. The New York Times reports that Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's widow, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist, 'Nova ScienceNow' host and director of the Hayden Planetarium, and Seth MacFarlane, the creator, producer, co-star and animating spirit of 'Family Guy,' are part of the creative team behind the Fox Network's 13-episode series, 'Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey,' expected to be broadcast in 2013. Topic: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Fox TV 2014)

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