New Season, COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS, Once
Again Hails from Executive Producer, Writer, Director and Creator
Ann Druyan with Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane, Brannon Braga
and Jason Clark
Renowned Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
Returns as Host of the 13-Part Series to be Broadcast Worldwide
Across National Geographic and in the U.S. on FOX and National
Geographic
New Season to Launch Alongside the Release
of a Companion National Geographic Book Written by
Druyan, COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS
FOX and National Geographic today announced the highly
anticipated return of the Emmy Award-winning worldwide
phenomenon COSMOS, from executive
producer/writer/director Ann Druyan (who won an Emmy Award for
writing the 2014 series and a Peabody Award for producing it) and
executive producers Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, THE ORVILLE,
“COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey”), Brannon Braga (THE ORVILLE,
“COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey,” “Terra Nova”) and Jason Clark (THE
ORVILLE, “COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey”). Neil deGrasse Tyson, the
famed pop-culture icon, astrophysicist and host of the Emmy
Award-nominated “StarTalk,” returns as host of the series,
scheduled to premiere globally in Spring 2019.
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Following a wildly successful run in 2014 as the most-watched
series ever on National Geographic Channels internationally, and
seen by more than 135 million people worldwide on National
Geographic and FOX, the new season will once again premiere in the
U.S. on both FOX and National Geographic and globally on National
Geographic in 171 countries and 43 languages.
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, the number
of worlds to explore and stories to tell are virtually infinite.
The first two seasons of the COSMOS television series transported a
global audience to the farthest reaches and most deeply hidden
recesses of the universe. In the course of those journeys, the
series dramatized the lives of many of the forgotten searchers who
contributed to the world’s understanding of who, when and where we
are in the universe. COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS will
venture to previously uncharted territories.
In conjunction with the launch of the new season, National
Geographic Books also will publish a companion
book, COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS, by Ann Druyan, the
long-awaited follow-up to Carl Sagan’s international
bestseller, COSMOS: A Personal Voyage.
COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS is produced by Cosmos
Studios, the Ithaca, NY-based company Ann Druyan co-founded in
2000, and Fuzzy Door Productions, Seth MacFarlane’s company. Druyan
and Brannon Braga are the series’ writers. Druyan, MacFarlane,
Braga and Jason Clark executive-produce. “Like”
COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS on Facebook at CosmosOnTV. Follow
the series on Twitter @CosmosOnTV. See photos and videos
on Instagram by following @CosmosOnTV.
About FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX), a unit of 21st Century Fox,
is home to some of the highest-rated and most acclaimed series on
television, including EMPIRE, THE MICK, LETHAL WEAPON, LUCIFER,
GOTHAM, THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, NEW GIRL, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE, STAR,
THE EXORCIST, THE SIMPSONS, FAMILY GUY, BOB’S BURGERS, HELL’S
KITCHEN, MASTERCHEF, MASTERCHEF JUNIOR and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN
DANCE; as well as new series THE GIFTED, THE ORVILLE, 9-1-1, LA TO
VEGAS, GHOSTED, BEAT SHAZAM, LOVE CONNECTION and THE F WORD WITH
GORDON RAMSAY; and upcoming drama THE RESIDENT. FOX airs 15 hours
of primetime programming a week, as well as major sports
and Sunday morning news. Through the FOX NOW app, FOX
viewers can watch full episodes of their favorite FOX shows on a
variety of digital platforms, while enjoying enhanced interactive
and social capabilities around those shows. Download the FOX
NOW app at www.fox.com/foxnow. To watch primetime programming
live on the web, visit www.fox.com/live. “Like” FOX on
Facebook at www.facebook.com/FOXTV and follow the network
on Twitter @FOXTV. For additional information about FOX, please
visit www.fox.com.
About National Geographic Partners
LLC
National Geographic Partners LLC (NGP), a joint venture between
National Geographic and 21st Century Fox, is committed to bringing
the world premium science, adventure and exploration content across
an unrivaled portfolio of media assets. NGP combines the global
National Geographic television channels (National Geographic
Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Nat Geo MUNDO, Nat Geo PEOPLE) with National
Geographic’s media and consumer-oriented assets, including National
Geographic magazines; National Geographic studios; related digital
and social media platforms; books; maps; children’s media; and
ancillary activities that include travel, global experiences and
events, archival sales, licensing and e-commerce businesses.
Furthering knowledge and understanding of our world has been the
core purpose of National Geographic for 130 years, and now we are
committed to going deeper, pushing boundaries, going further for
our consumers … and reaching millions of people around the world in
172 countries and 43 languages every month as we do it. NGP returns
27 percent of our proceeds to the nonprofit National Geographic
Society to fund work in the areas of science, exploration,
conservation and education. For more information visit natgeotv.com
or nationalgeographic.com, or find us
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
About Cosmos Studios
Co-founded in 2000 by CEO and visionary Ann Druyan, Ithaca,
NY-based Cosmos Studios creates, produces, and distributes
eye, brain, heart and soul-nourishing science-based entertainment
in all media.
Cosmos Studios aims to tear down the walls that have excluded so
many from the scientific enterprise. We work to demystify the
language, values, and drama of science, to give everyone the power
of its permanently revolutionary methodology.
Carl Sagan, and those privileged to work with him, demonstrated
that there is a world-wide appetite for compelling entertainment
that reflects our dawning awareness of cosmic evolution and our
place in its great story. There is a planet-wide hunger for images
and dreams that reflect our radically altered sense of who, where,
and when we are… where we might go, who we might become.
In collaboration with award-winning writers, artists,
filmmakers, producers, researchers, engineers, educators, artists,
and a growing list of partners across science, communications, and
finance, we seek to touch audiences with the soaring spiritual high
that comes from grasping science's central revelation- our oneness
with the cosmos.
Come with us at www.cosmosstudios.comon Facebook
at www.facebook.com/CosmosStudiosOfficial/on Twitter
at twitter.com/CosmosStudios1on Instagram
at www.instagram.com/cosmosstudiosofficial/
About Fuzzy Door
Productions
Led by director, writer and producer Seth MacFarlane, Fuzzy Door
Productions is the production company behind many of today’s
most successful film and television projects. Jason Clark
serves as its President and oversees all areas of
development and production for the company’s film and television
slate. Fuzzy Door produced “COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey,” and
currently produces FOX’s hit space adventure series, THE ORVILLE,
as well as the beloved animated television shows FAMILY GUY
and “American Dad!.” On the film side, Fuzzy Door has
produced “Ted,” “Ted 2” and “A Million Ways to Die in the
West.”
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