Neil deGrasse Tyson To Host New Series of ‘Cosmos’, Galactic Swag!

Neil deGrasse Tyson is my current favorite astrophysicist. I don’t know many, but I know him and his smooth voice and his ability to distill the impossibly complex into easily digestible metaphor. His new gig is going to rule.

Wired:

More than three decades after it aired, Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking, brilliant 13-part TV series  Cosmos:A Personal Voyage  will finally get a sequel.

Cosmos, which originally ran in 1980 and was rerun many times over the following decade, is widely regarded as one of the first, and best, TV shows to make science accessible to everyone. You can watch the show now on Hulu, but despite its brilliance it is still a show from more than 30 years ago, and you can tell – the special effects are primitive by today’s standards, but more importantly some of the content has been superseded by discoveries in the intervening years.

So, it’s high time someone made a sequel to it, and now someone is! In partnership with Sagan’s colleagues Ann Druyan (who is also his widow) and Steven Soter, Seth MacFarlane – yes,  that  Seth MacFarlane – is going to produce a new 13-part series to serve as a sequel and modern update to Sagan’s masterpiece.

Can’t wait.