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GeekWire: ‘Cosmos’ will return to television in 2019

"Cosmos" is returning to Fox and National Geographic in the spring of 2019.
The Ship of the Imagination is getting ready to set sail again in “Cosmos: Possible Worlds,” due to air on Fox and National Geographic in the spring of 2019. (Fox via YouTube)

Like hope, “Cosmos” springs eternal. That’s the message Ann Druyan is delivering with the news that “Cosmos,” the science-minded TV show pioneered by her late husband, world-renowned physicist Carl Sagan, is returning to Fox and National Geographic in the spring of 2019.

“I would love for this show to be a kind of initiation experience for as many people around the world as possible, into the awesome power of science as a way to keep us from lying to each other, and lying to ourselves,” she told reporters today during a teleconference.

“We are primates, and we lie,” said Druyan, who serves as the show’s executive producer, co-writer and director. “We lie to everyone, each one of us. We’re all guilty of this — some more than others, I have to say. … Science not only can keep us honest, but it can be a means for us to meet these horrendous, very grave challenges that we’re facing.”

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