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#Cosmos a spacetime odyssey series
(“The deeper waters of this vast cosmic ocean and their numberless worlds lie ahead,” he intones as the spaceship clears Pluto.) Perhaps that’s not surprising, since he’s director of the Hayden Planetarium, but the series needs to work harder to differentiate itself from an Imax movie. Tyson’s can sound like an overwrought, overamplified planetarium show. Yet the vehicle he is given doesn’t initially soar the way “Cosmos” 1 did.Īnd where Sagan’s narrative often approached poetry, Dr. Tyson is genial and comfortable on camera, just as Sagan was. Tyson for being committed to broadening our horizons.īut, at least from the first episode, “Standing Up in the Milky Way,” it’s hard to see the new program’s having the impact of the original. Hats off to Fox for putting a serious science program on network television in prime time, and hats off to Dr. It may put up some pretty good viewership numbers, since it is being heavily promoted and shown on multiple outlets, including Fox on Sunday night and the National Geographic Channel on Monday. The original 13-part series, broadcast on PBS in 1980, has been seen by hundreds of millions of people throughout the world and made a profound impression on many of them.ĭon’t expect the new version to make that kind of television history. In “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” which begins on Sunday, Neil deGrasse Tyson takes the guide-to-the-universe role filled in the original “Cosmos” by Carl Sagan, a man who was so good at popularizing science that the American Astronomical Society awards an annual public-communication medal in his name. It’s like trying to remake “Citizen Kane.”
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