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Seth MacFarlane and Neil DeGrasse Tyson Will Remake Cosmos on Fox
According to Forbes, Seth MacFarlane is deeply concerned that the U.S. has lost its passion for science. No one seems to care about the space program. Evolution has somehow become debatable.
“The resistance to science [in the U.S.] is idiotic,” says MacFarlane, sipping on a coffee that he declares way too fancy. “Those people shouldn’t be allowed to have antibiotics. Give us back your TVs and the dentures.”
Fox plans to air the reboot of the 1980s PBS science show Cosmos, one of the most popular programs ever made, to be hosted by astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Fox might seem like a strange network to host a reboot of Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos. The show was one of the most popular ever on PBS, but much of its success depended on viewers buying into Sagan’s poetic vision of space as the exhilarating new frontier for exploration. Not exactly the kind of show you’d expect on a network dominated by shows like American Idol and MacFarlane’s naughty cartoons.
Ann Druyan, Sagan’s widow and the force behind the new Cosmos, says that the network has agreed to make the show using cutting-edge visual technology (the original was one of the first to use green screens) and is letting her have control over the content of the show.
“Seth was already a hero in our household because of Family Guy,” says Druyan, who has two sons. “I knew he would be someone with a skeptical nature and an impatience with superstition and nonsense.”
MacFarlane is also spending his money to help get late Cosmos host Carl Sagan’s substantial collections of letters, notes and drawings into the Library of Congress.
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Seth MacFarlane and Neil DeGrasse Tyson Will Remake Cosmos on Fox
According to Forbes, Seth MacFarlane is deeply concerned that the U.S. has lost its passion for science. No one seems to care about the space program. Evolution has somehow become debatable.
“The resistance to science [in the U.S.] is idiotic,” says MacFarlane, sipping on a coffee that he declares way too fancy. “Those people shouldn’t be allowed to have antibiotics. Give us back your TVs and the dentures.”
Fox plans to air the reboot of the 1980s PBS science show Cosmos, one of the most popular programs ever made, to be hosted by astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Fox might seem like a strange network to host a reboot of Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos. The show was one of the most popular ever on PBS, but much of its success depended on viewers buying into Sagan’s poetic vision of space as the exhilarating new frontier for exploration. Not exactly the kind of show you’d expect on a network dominated by shows like American Idol and MacFarlane’s naughty cartoons.
Ann Druyan, Sagan’s widow and the force behind the new Cosmos, says that the network has agreed to make the show using cutting-edge visual technology (the original was one of the first to use green screens) and is letting her have control over the content of the show.
“Seth was already a hero in our household because of Family Guy,” says Druyan, who has two sons. “I knew he would be someone with a skeptical nature and an impatience with superstition and nonsense.”
MacFarlane is also spending his money to help get late Cosmos host Carl Sagan’s substantial collections of letters, notes and drawings into the Library of Congress.
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We’ve all seen astrophysicist extraordinaire and future Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson before… but have we ever seen Neil deGrasse Tyson in his younger days?
Check out those arms and those sideburns. He’s probably plotting the demise of Pluto as a planet at that very moment.
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