BEVERLY HILLS (AP).- The Fox network is bringing back Carl Sagan's universe-spanning
docu-series "Cosmos," and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is on board for the ride.
The 13-part "Cosmos: A Space-time Odyssey" is scheduled to launch in 2013, Fox announced
Friday. More than three decades after the debut of the revolutionary "Cosmos," the new series
has teamed MacFarlane with Sagan's original creative collaborators. The host will be a
strophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fox said.
The original "Cosmos" with Sagan was first broadcast in 1980 and remains among the most
globally successful American public TV series of all time. (
astronomer-astrophysicist Sagan died in 1996.)
National Geographic Channel will air a same-night encore of the episodes following their
broadcast on Fox.
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