Cosmos a spacetime odyssey neil degrasse tyson

#COSMOS A SPACETIME ODYSSEY NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON SERIES#

No network was prepared to give Druyan creative carte blanche. Later Tyson joined the team as host, but there was a problem. About seven years ago, together with astrophysicist Steven Soter, who with Sagan and Druyan was also a writer on the original series, she began planning new episodes of Cosmos. And with Sagan, in his slow, compelling drawl, uttering knock-out lines like 'the cosmos is also within us, we're made of star-stuff', the show thrilled and informed in equal measure.Д«ut like all good things, it came to an end, and after Sagan died in 1996 aged 62, it seemed that Cosmos was destined to remain on a nostalgic pedestal.

Delving into the nature of the universe, the fabric of our being and the lives of those who made some of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, Cosmos was an immersive experience. But Cosmos was far more than just a fanciful tour of our solar system hosted by an exalted professor in a corduroy jacket. British physicists Brian Cox and Maggie Aderin-Pocock have cited Sagan as a huge influence, while his appeal was also felt by those pursuing a rather different path вЂ“ comedian Robin Ince even put on a show named 'Carl Sagan Is Still My God'. Photograph: Tony Korody/CorbisДЄnd it didn't just captivate American audiences. Its mindbending visual effects and soaring music, coupled with Sagan's lyrical, almost hypnotic narration mesmerised viewers, making it one of the most successful programmes ever to run on America's Public Broadcasting Service.Д¬arl Sagan brought astronomy into popular culture.

#COSMOS A SPACETIME ODYSSEY NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON SERIES#

'People have phrases that one of us wrote tattooed on their body,' Ann Druyan, co-writer of the series and Sagan's widow, tells me. First seen in 1980, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and its beguiling, turtleneck-sweater wearing host, the astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan, has achieved cult status. Yet it's doubtful that even the masterminds behind the NAS could have predicted that when MacFarlane, creator of the bawdy cartoon Family Guy, ended up shooting the breeze with one of America's best-known astrophysicists, it would lead to an astonishing re-boot of one of the most popular science television programmes ever. The upshot was the Science and Entertainment Exchange programme, launched in 2008. Science and the movies seem unlikely bedfellows, but hooking them up was a strategic move by the NAS to combat what it saw as a growing public disconnection with science, as well as to offer film-makers help and inspiration for storylines. It's as though he just revealed the royal family have been hanging out in McDonald's. 'The National Academy of Sciences,' he reiterates. ' Seth MacFarlane at a kickoff meeting of a new office opened in Hollywood by the National Academy of Sciences.' He seems barely able to believe it himself. 'T This is an extraordinary sentence I am about to utter,' says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in a voice charged with significance.

Cosmos a spacetime odyssey neil degrasse tyson