Rebooting 'Cosmos': Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why Iconic TV Series Returns in 2014

Rebooting ‘Cosmos’: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why Iconic TV Series Returns in 2014

by Marshall Honoroff, SPACE.com Contributor

Science • January 2014 • Views: 2,920

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Rebooting Carl Sagan’s seminal “Cosmos” miniseries three decades later is almost impossible — unless you happen to be renowned astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson.

For those who may have missed the original back in 1980, “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” was a documentary series on PBS that explored the universe as well as the history of scientific discovery. Sagan’s topics of discussionranged from Japanese folklore to debunking astrology to the ultimate fate of the stars and galaxies that surround us.

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9 comments

aagcobb Mon, Jan 13, 2014 9:47:38am

Really looking forward to watching this with my kids; loved Carl Sagan’s Cosmos when I was young.

BusyMonster Mon, Jan 13, 2014 10:21:40am

This will be of epic epicness. I still put Cosmos on and re-live watching those Voyager pictures come through. And Sagan’s dismemberment of Platonic “reasoning” and the cult of the Pythagoreans was something I re-watched in adulthood, and it helped me greatly in picking apart the tangled web of western philosophy.

Skip Intro Mon, Jan 13, 2014 10:42:57am

It’s on Fox? The wingnuts aren’t going to like that one bit. Where’s the balance with God’s version?

I can see the boycotts being organized right now. No doubt Congressional Republicans will be getting all hot and bothered about there being too much science and not enough God.

Should be fun to watch.

CriticalDragon1177 Mon, Jan 13, 2014 11:19:51am

re: #3 Skip Intro

There will always be, “Redneck Cosmos!”

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SidewaysQuark Mon, Jan 13, 2014 1:05:10pm

Is “reboot” really the right term, here? It’s not like they’re pretending the science narrated by Carl Sagan never existed….

CriticalDragon1177 Mon, Jan 13, 2014 2:19:13pm

re: #5 SidewaysQuark

True, but even if you ignore the fact that it will be Neil DeGrasse Tyson rather than Carl Sagan this time, around, it will be different. For one thing we know a lot more, than when the original Cosmos came out.

EPR-radar Mon, Jan 13, 2014 2:44:20pm

re: #2 BusyMonster

This will be of epic epicness. I still put Cosmos on and re-live watching those Voyager pictures come through. And Sagan’s dismemberment of Platonic “reasoning” and the cult of the Pythagoreans was something I re-watched in adulthood, and it helped me greatly in picking apart the tangled web of western philosophy.

A little OT, but I found the history of western philosophy much easier to understand when I realized that it includes a futile and centuries-long quest to change faith in a deity to knowledge of a deity.

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RadicalModerate Tue, Jan 14, 2014 1:13:24am

re: #6 CriticalDragon1177

True, but even if you ignore the fact that it will be Neil DeGrasse Tyson rather than Carl Sagan this time, around, it will be different. For one thing we know a lot more, than when the original Cosmos came out.

There will be differences, but since Ann Druyan is directly involved in the new show’s production, it is safe to say that the spirit of Carl Sagan will be ever present, as she co-wrote the original program with him , and they were married less than a year after the production ended.

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