Cosmos” is
returning to the National Geographic Channel and Fox. The networks have ordered
a second season of the science documentary television series, which is a
follow-up to the 1980s series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” with Carl Sagan. Neil
deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist and host of the Emmy Award-nominated “Star
Talk,” returns as host of the series, scheduled to premiere globally in Spring
2019.
The
announcement was made at the Television Critics Association winter press tour
on Saturday. The series hails from executive producer, writer, and director Ann
Druyan, Sagan’s widow and one of the writers on the original 1980s series.
She and
Steven Soter, another writer from the original show, won the Emmy for
Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming in 2014 for the show’s first
season. Seth MacFarlane, Brannon Braga, and Jason Clark also serve as executive
producers. It will be produced by Cosmos Studios, the Ithaca, NY-based company
Druyan co-founded in 2000, and Fuzzy Door Productions, MacFarlane’s company.
Following a
wildly successful run in 2014 as the most-watched series ever on National
Geographic Channels internationally, and seen by more than 135 million people
worldwide on National Geographic and Fox, the new season will air on National
Geographic and Fox.
It will once
again premiere in the U.S. on both FOX and National Geographic and globally on
National Geographic in 171 countries and 43 languages.
The first
two seasons of the “Cosmos” television series transported a global audience to
the farthest reaches and most deeply hidden recesses of the universe. In the
course of those journeys, the series dramatized the lives of many of the
forgotten searchers who contributed to the world’s understanding of who, when
and where we are in the universe.
“Cosmos:
Possible Worlds” will venture to previously uncharted territories.
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