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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