National Geographic to launch ‘Cosmos: A spacetime Odyssey’

National Geographic Abu Dhabi (NGAD) on Tuesday announced that Cosmos: A spacetime Odyssey, the thrilling new 13-part series from executive producer/writer/director Ann Druyan and executive producer Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, “Ted”), will premiere in the Middle East on National Geographic Abu Dhabi on Wednesday (today) at 8 p.m. KSA time. The regional premier comes just three days after its National Geographic Channel launch, which was the channel’s largest global launch ever for a television series.
More than three decades after the debut of ‘Cosmos: A Personal Voyage’, Carl Sagan’s stunning and iconic exploration of the universe as revealed by science, MacFarlane teamed with Sagan’s original creative collaborators, writer/executive producer/director Druyan and co-writer, astronomer Steven Soter, to conceive the 13-part series that will serve as a successor to the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning original series. It will be presented on National Geographic Abu Dhabi in Arabic.
As with the legendary original series, the new Cosmos is the saga of how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. The series brings to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge, transporting viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest, and the smallest, scale.
The series invents new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts are presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.