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Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey is aanstaande Amerikaanse wetenschappelijke documentaireserie met Neil deGrasse Tyson als presentator. Het is een vervolg op Cosmos: A Personal Voyage uit 1980, dat gepresenteerd werd door Carl Sagan. De uitvoerende producenten zijn Seth MacFarlane en Ann Druyan, Sagans weduwe.[1][2] De televisieserie zal op 9 maart 2014 tegelijkertijd de hele VS in première gaan[3] bij tien 21st Century Fox-netwerken, waaronder Fox en Fox Life. De rest van de afleveringen zal worden uitgezonden door Fox en de volgende dag door National Geographic opnieuw worden vertoond.[4]
| Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey | ||||
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| Genre | Documentaire | |||
| Speelduur per afl. | circa 60 minuten | |||
| Bedenker | Ann Druyan Steven Soter | |||
| Presentatie | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |||
| Regie | Brannon Braga | |||
| Land van oorsprong |  Verenigde Staten
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| Taal | Engels | |||
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| Producent | * Seth MacFarlane
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| Start | 9 maart 2014 | |||
| Afleveringen | 13 | |||
| Netwerk of omroep | Fox National Geographic Channel | |||
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De originele 13-delige Cosmos: A Personal Voyage werd in 1980 door Public Broadcasting System uitgezonden met Carl Sagan als gastheer. Deze serie wordt sinds de vertoning als zeer invloedrijk beschouwd ; Dave Itzkoff van The New York Times beschreef het als "een keerpunt voor televisie met wetenschap als thema."[5] Het programma is zeker door minstens 400 miljoen mensen gezien in 60 verschillende landen,[5] en tot de documentaire The Civil War (1990) bleef het het best beoordeelde programma van het netwerk.[6]
Following Sagan's death in 1996, his widow Ann Druyan, the co-creator of the original Cosmos series along with Steven Soter, a producer from the series, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, sought to create a new version of the series, aimed to appeal to as wide an audience as possible and not just to those interested in the sciences. They had struggled for years with reluctant television networks that failed to see the broad appeal of the show.[5]
Seth MacFarlane had met Druyan through Tyson at the 2008 kickoff event for the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a new Los Angeles office of the National Academy of Sciences, designed to connect Hollywood writers and directors with scientists.[7] A year later, at a 2009 lunch in New York City with Tyson, MacFarlane learned of their interest to re-create Cosmos. He was influenced by Cosmos as a child, believing that Cosmos served to "[bridge] the gap between the academic community and the general public."[7] At the time MacFarlane told Tyson, "I'm at a point in my career where I have some disposable income ... and I’d like to spend it on something worthwhile."[8] MacFarlane had considered the reduction of effort for space travel in recent decades to be part of "our culture of lethargy."[5] MacFarlane, who has several series on the Fox network, was able to bring Druyan to meet the heads of Fox programming, Peter Rice and Kevin Reilly, and helped secure the greenlighting of the show.[5] MacFarlane admits that he is "the least essential person in this equation" and the effort is a departure from work he's done before, but considers this to be "very comfortable territory for me personally."[5] He and Druyan have become close friends, and Druyan stated that she believed that Sagan and MacFarlane would have been "kindred spirits" with their respective "protean talents."[5] In June 2012, MacFarlane provided funding to allow about 800 boxes of Sagan's personal notes and correspondences to be donated to the Library of Congress.[7]
In August 2011, the show was officially announced for primetime broadcast, and is scheduled for the spring of 2014. The show is a co-production of Druyan's Cosmos Studios, MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions, and National Geographic Channel; Druyan, MacFarlane, Cosmos Studios' Mitchell Cannold, and director Brannon Braga will be executive producers.[9] Fox's Reilly considered that the show would be a risk and outside the network's typical programming, but that "we believe this can have the same massive cultural impact that the original series delivered," and committed the network's resources to the show.[9] The show would first be broadcast on Fox, reairing the same night on the National Geographic Channel.[9]
In a Point of Inquiry interview, Tyson discussed their goal of capturing the "spirit of the original Cosmos," which he describes as "uplifting themes that called people to action."[10] Druyan describes the themes of wonder and skepticism they are infusing into the scripts, in an interview with Skepticality, "In order for it to qualify on our show it has to touch you. It still has to be rigorously good science--no cutting corners on that. But then, it also has to be that equal part skepticism and wonder both."[11] In a [] interview, Tyson credits the success of the original series for the proliferation of science programming, “The task for the next generation of Cosmos is a little bit different because I don’t need to teach you textbook science. There’s a lot of textbook science in the original Cosmos, but that’s not what you remember most. What most people who remember the original series remember most is the effort to present science in a way that has meaning to you that can influence your conduct as a citizen of the nation and of the world--especially of the world.” Tyson states that the new series will contain both new material and updated versions of topics in the original series, but primarily, will service the “needs of today’s population.” “We want to make a program that is not simply a sequel to the first, but issues forth from the times in which we are making it, so that it matters to those who is this emergent 21st century audience.”[12] Tyson considered that recent successes of science-oriented shows like The Big Bang Theory, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and films like Gravity, that "science has become mainstream" and expects Cosmos "will land on hugely fertile ground."[8]
Tyson comments on the "love-hate relationship" viewers had with the original series' Spaceship of the Imagination, but confirms that they are developing "vehicles of storytelling."[10] Tyson affirmed that defining elements of the original series such as the Spaceship of the Imagination and the Cosmic Calendar with improved special effects, as well as new elements, would be present. Animation for these sequences were created by a team hand-picked by MacFarlane for the series.[8]
MacFarlane announced on [] that the score will be written by Alan Silvestri.[13]
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