𝑻𝒉𝒆𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑺𝒐𝑭𝒂𝒓:
For anyone who missed the phenomenon that was ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ in 2014, it was THE global TV event of the season. The series being somewhat of a sequel to Carl Sagans ‘Cosmos: A Personal Voyage’ from 1980, was born from the most unlikely of places. Seth McFarlane (Family Guy, The Orville) wanted to pay homage to how revolutionary & profound the original was. He teamed up with Ann Druyan, co-author of the original & Sagans wife. McFarlane provided a large portion of the financing himself. Being inspired by Carl Sagan in high school to become an astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson was chosen to host the 13 episodes. The series loosely followed the same format as the original. Including similar storytelling approach & plot devices like the ‘Ship Of The Imagination’ & the ‘Cosmic Calendar’. The “Second” Cosmos premiered in March of 2014 & was broadcast jointly by FOX Network & the National Geographic Channel. From the beginning, Cosmos garnered critical acclaim winning more than a couple awards.
𝑨 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆:
In January 2018 it was announced another season titled “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” was in production & set to premiere in 2019. It was produced by the same team including McFarlane & Druyan & hosted again by Neil deGrasse Tyson. In July 2018 an announcement trailer was shown at San Diego Comic-Con with a full trailer following in October. Soon after, a premiere date of March 3rd, 2019 was announced.
𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒆/ 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆:
Sad & Unexpectedly, in Nov. & Dec. Sexual Misconduct allegations were levied against Tyson by four women. Fox & Nat-Geo both decided to halt Cosmos until an investigation could be completed. Nat-Geo also put Tysons show ‘StarTalk’ on hiatus. Soon after the original premiere date passed both networks announced their investigations were complete & were moving forward with Tyson & Cosmos & NatGeo would continue ‘StarTalk’. So now we are here. It seems the 3rd iteration of Cosmos is wrapped, in the can, & ready to be shown yet no news or premier date has emerged from either network. As far as the information is concerned ‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ may not be shown until 2048. Layman & nerd alike are waiting with baited breath for a sign, any sign, of when we will see another ‘Cosmos’
What follows below is the newest trailer & full synopsis from FOX
Trailer: https://youtu.be/hfZ1iNSCG0I
𝐴𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝐹𝑂𝑋 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑒𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑-𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑆 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 2019. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒-𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑, 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑛 𝐷𝑟𝑢𝑦𝑎𝑛 (𝑁𝐴𝑆𝐴’𝑠 𝑉𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑, “𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑚𝑜𝑠: 𝐴 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑒,” “𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑡”) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒-𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑆𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑀𝑎𝑐𝐹𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒 (𝐹𝐴𝑀𝐼𝐿𝑌 𝐺𝑈𝑌, 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑂𝑅𝑉𝐼𝐿𝐿𝐸, 𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑆: 𝐴 𝑆𝑃𝐴𝐶𝐸𝑇𝐼𝑀𝐸 𝑂𝐷𝑌𝑆𝑆𝐸𝑌), 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑛 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑎 (𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑂𝑅𝑉𝐼𝐿𝐿𝐸, 𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑆: 𝐴 𝑆𝑃𝐴𝐶𝐸𝑇𝐼𝑀𝐸 𝑂𝐷𝑌𝑆𝑆𝐸𝑌), 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜-𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 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,” 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡. 𝐶𝑜-𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑙 𝑆𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑛𝑛 𝐷𝑟𝑢𝑦𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 1980, 𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑆 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑆: 𝐴 𝑆𝑃𝐴𝐶𝐸𝑇𝐼𝑀𝐸 𝑂𝐷𝑌𝑆𝑆𝐸𝑌, 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 135 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑂𝑋, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡-𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑆: 𝑃𝑂𝑆𝑆𝐼𝐵𝐿𝐸 𝑊𝑂𝑅𝐿𝐷𝑆, 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈.𝑆. 𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝐹𝑂𝑋 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛 180 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 43 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠. 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑠, 𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑆: 𝑃𝑂𝑆𝑆𝐼𝐵𝐿𝐸 𝑊𝑂𝑅𝐿𝐷𝑆 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑡. 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒. 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 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟, 𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑀𝑂𝑆: 𝐴 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑒
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