He considered the reduced attention to space travel in the last few decades as part of our "culture of decline (eng: lethargy)". and I want to make something useful with it".
MacFarlane told Tyson: "I'm at a point in my life that I take some income. 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".
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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.
Īfter 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. the program is certainly seen by at least 400 million people in 60 different countries, and to the documentary The Civil War(1990) it remained the top rated programme of the network. 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 Timesdescribed him as "a turning point for television with science on the theme". Animator Seth MacFarlane was crucial for funding for Cosmosand will also be executive producer.
Astrophysicus Neil deGrasse Tyson is the narrator of the program. Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan and one of the co-producers of the original Cosmos, is executive producer of the new series.