Executive Producer, Writer, Director and
Creator Ann Druyan; Executive Producers Seth MacFarlane, Brannon
Braga and Jason Clark; and Renowned Astrophysicist and Host Neil
deGrasse Tyson Shared the Sneak Peek with San Diego Comic-Con
Attendees during Panel
New Season of COSMOS to Premiere March 2019;
13-Part Series to be Broadcast Worldwide across National Geographic
and in the U.S. on FOX and National Geographic
FOX and National Geographic today released a first look at the
highly anticipated return of the Emmy Award-winning worldwide
phenomenon COSMOS. 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”), along with series host Neil deGrasse Tyson,
the famed pop-culture icon, astrophysicist and host of the Emmy
Award-nominated “StarTalk,” were all on hand to share the sneak
peek during their panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2018. COSMOS:
POSSIBLE WORLDS is set to premiere on FOX and National
Geographic in March 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 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. Sale
date is February 19, 2019.
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.
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About Fox Broadcasting Company
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is home to some of the highest-rated and most acclaimed series on
television, including 9-1-1, EMPIRE, THE ORVILLE, THE GIFTED, THE
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BOB’S BURGERS, HELL’S KITCHEN, MASTERCHEF, MASTERCHEF JUNIOR, THE
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LLC
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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
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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
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Society to fund work in the areas of science, exploration,
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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.com
on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CosmosStudiosOfficial/
on Twitter at twitter.com/CosmosStudios1
on 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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