Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a scientific American documentary series with Neil deGrasse Tyson as presenter. It is a sequel to Cosmos: A Personal Voyage from 1980, that was presented by Carl Sagan. The Executive producers are Seth MacFarlane and Ann Druyan, widow Sagans. [1]  [2]  The television series will be on 9 March 2014 premiered at the same time across the US[3]  at ten 21st Century Foxnetworks, including Fox and Fox Life. The rest of the episodes will be broadcast by Fox and the next day be screened again by National Geographic. [4]. National Geographic Channel sent In Netherlands on Sunday 16 March 2014 the first episode from. [5]



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[hide] *Production 1  ==Production[ Edit] == Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan and one of the co-producers of the original Cosmos, is executive producer of the new series.Astrophysicus Neil deGrasse Tyson is the narrator of the program.Animator Seth MacFarlane was crucial for funding for Cosmosand will also be executive producer.The original 13-piece Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in 1980 with Carl Sagan as host. This series is regarded as very influential since the display; Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times described him as "a turning point for television with science on the theme". [6]  the program is certainly seen by at least 400 million people in 60 different countries,[6]  and to the documentary The Civil War(1990) it remained the top rated programme of the network. [7]
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After the death of Carl Sagan in 1996 by his widow and fellow bedenkster of the original Cosmosseries Ann Druyan to looked at ways to develop a new version of the series. She did so together with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and original producer Steven Sorter, this time with the goal to make the series interesting for as wide an audience as possible and not only for those interested in science. There followed a year-long battle for television channels to convince the broad appeal of such a series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytimes_6-2" len="189" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Seth MacFarlane, creator and maker of animated television series Family Guy, if the met Druyan via Tyson at a meeting in 2008 of the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a division of the National Academy of Sciences in Los Angeles which has been set up to Hollywood writers together with scientists.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wapost_papers_8-0" len="195" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]  during a lunch in New York heard MacFarlane a year later of Tyson on the ideas to the Cosmosto relaunch series. MacFarlane became as a child affected by the original series, in which he realized that Cosmos could serve to "bridge the gap between academia and the general public".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wapost_papers_8-1" len="195" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">MacFarlane told Tyson: "I'm at a point in my life that I take some income ... and I want to make something useful with it".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-parade_9-0" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]. He considered the reduced attention to space travel in the last few decades as part of our "culture of decline (eng: lethargy)".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytimes_6-3" len="189" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  MacFarlane, which produces several series on Fox, the transmitter was able to organize a meeting with Druyan and the network bosses of Fox, Peter Rice and Kevin Reilly.He helped to obtain the green light for the series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytimes_6-4" len="189" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  MacFarlane admits he "is the least important person in this whole" and that this series is different from his earlier work, but for him personally as it considers this a "very comfortable area".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytimes_6-5" len="189" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">MacFarlane and Druyan have since become good friends and has indicated that she believes Sagan and Druyan MacFarlane "kindred spirits" would have been in relation to both their talent to change.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nytimes_6-6" len="189" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  In June 2012 settled MacFarlane funding it took to about 800 boxes with personal notes and correspondence of Sagan to donate to the Library of Congress.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wapost_papers_8-2" len="195" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [8] ==Broadcast<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In August 2011 was officially announced that the series would be broadcast from the spring 2014 on primetime. The episodes are a co-production between Cosmos Studios (Ann Druyan), Fuzzy By Productions (Seth MacFarlane) and National Geographic Channel. The Executive producers are:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Reilly of Fox was considering that the show would be a possible risk and that it actually does not fit within the normal programming of the transmitter. However, he said the following: "we believe that this may have the same cultural impact as the original series and the resources of the television network available for creating the show.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hwr_announce_1-2" len="194" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  the idea is to broadcast the first series on the transmitter to the same evening, then also this Fox to broadcast on National Geographic Channel.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hwr_announce_1-3" len="194" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]. In Canada will the series be broadcast via Globalat the same time, National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]  In Netherlands is to see the series on National Geographic Channel from 16 March 2014, every Sunday evening at 22: 00. A preview of the first episode of the series was broadcast for film students during the White House Student Film Festival on 28 February 2014.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]
 * Ann Druyan;
 * Seth MacFarlane;
 * Mitchell Cannold;
 * Brannon Braga (Director) <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hwr_announce_1-1" len="194" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During an interview on the Point of Inquirypodcast said Tyson that their goal was to "to capture the essence of original Cosmos " which he describes as "inspiring themes that inspire people to."Druyan <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Point_of_Inquiry_12-0" len="200" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  describes the themes of wonder and skepticism that they have included in the scripts during an interview with the podcast Skepticality-: "to be eligible for our show, it should hit you. It must be still rigorous good science are-no concession on that point. But it should also have as much skepticism as wonder. "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]  In a Big Picture Science-interview says Tyson that the success of the original series has brought the ball rolling for the proliferation to science programs: "the task for the next generation of Cosmos differs slightly because I teach science ' must not ' textbook. That was prevalent in the original Cosmos, but that's not what get the most lasting impression. Most people who think back to the original series, remember especially the ambition to present science in such a way that it means something for you allowing you to do as a citizen of this country and particularly as a global citizen may be affected. "

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tyson says the new series both new material as updated versions of topics from the original series will contain, but that the show mainly focused on the "needs of the people today." "We want to create a program that is not just a sequel is at first, but that stems from the time when we are making, so it appeals to a 21st-century audience."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="183" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]  Tyson believes that the successes of science-oriented series such as The Big Bang Theory andCSI: Crime Scene Investigation "and films such as Gravity have made mainstream science" and he expects that Cosmos "on an extremely fertile soil will land".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-parade_9-1" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tyson confirms that essential elements from the original series, such as the spaceship of the imagination (' Spaceship of the Imagination ') and the Cosmic Calendar ("Cosmic Calendar"), in the series will sit with improved special effects, as well as new elements. The animation was created by a team that by MacFarlane personally was composed for the series.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-parade_9-2" len="188" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]  MacFarlane left via Twitter that the music will be composed byAlan Silvestri .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MacFarlaneTwitter_15-0" len="201" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15] ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 10 July 2014 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards, including one in the category "Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series" ("Exceptional documentary or nonfiction series").