The show has been considered highly significant since its broadcast David Itzkoff of The New York Times described it as "a watershed moment for science-themed television programming".
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The original 13-part Cosmos: A Personal Voyage first aired in 1980 on the Public Broadcasting Service, and was hosted by Carl Sagan. Cosmos has been critically praised, winning several television broadcasting awards and a Peabody Award for educational content.Ī sequel series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, premiered on March 9, 2020, on National Geographic.
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The series concluded on June 8, 2014, with home media release of the entire series on June 10, 2014. The series has been rebroadcast internationally in dozens of other countries by local National Geographic and Fox stations. The remainder of the series aired on the Fox Network, with the National Geographic Channel rebroadcasting the episodes the next night with extra content. The series premiered on March 9, 2014, simultaneously in the United States across ten 21st Century Fox networks. The series loosely follows the same thirteen-episode format and storytelling approach that the original Cosmos used, including elements such as the "Ship of the Imagination" and the " Cosmic Calendar", but features information updated since the 1980 series, along with extensive computer-generated graphics and animation footage augmenting the narration. The show is produced by Brannon Braga, and Alan Silvestri composed the backing score. Among the executive producers are Seth MacFarlane, whose financial investment was instrumental in bringing the show to broadcast television, and Ann Druyan, a co-author and co-creator of the original television series and Sagan's wife. The show is presented by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who, as a young high school student, was inspired by Sagan.
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This series was developed to bring back the foundation of science to network television at the height of other scientific-based television series and films. The show is a follow-up to the 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which was presented by Carl Sagan on the Public Broadcasting Service and is considered a milestone for scientific documentaries. It placed fourth and last in its timeslot behind Resurrection, The Good Wife, and Believe and twelfth out of sixteen for the night.Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 American science documentary television series.
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Upon airing on Fox, the episode received a 2.0/5 in the 18-49 rating/share, with 4.95 million American viewers watching it live. The episode concludes with an animation from the original Cosmos showing the evolution of life from a single cell to mankind today, with music from Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto. Tyson speculates on the possibility of life on other planets, such as Saturn's moon, Titan, as well as how abiogenesis may have originated life on Earth. Tyson describes extinction of species and the five great extinction events that wiped out numerous species on Earth, while some species, such as the tardigrade, were able to survive and continue life. Tyson uses the Ship of the Imagination to show how DNA, genes, and mutation work, and how these led to the diversity of species as represented by the Tree of Life, including how complex organs such as the eye came about as a common element.
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Tyson describes both artificial selection via selective breeding, using the example of mankind's domestication of wolves into dogs, and natural selection that created species like polar bears. The episode covers several facets of the origin of life and evolution. The human eye was used as a device to explain evolution to the audience. Despite positive reviews, however, the episode received a 2.0/5 in the 18-49 rating/share, with 4.95 million American viewers watching it live-a decrease from the 5.77 million viewers who watched the series premiere. The episode received positive reviews, with critics praising the beautiful graphics as well as the wonder-inspiring and straightforward narrative of how evolution works. " Some of the Things That Molecules Do" is the second episode of the American documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey " Some of the Things That Molecules Do"