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On multiple Fox and National Geographic networks at various times
Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a sequel to Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking PBS series that Americans watched en masse 35 years ago. Tyson, arguably America’s greatest living public intellectual, is a brilliantly charismatic host and educator, and the narrative he and his producers craft to explain the origins of the universe, the stars and life on Earth is miraculously easy to understand and not dumbed down. But the real star of the show is the stunning photography and computer generated effects. The technology that allowed Michael Bay to get rich is now being used for a socially relevant purpose: explaining science to a curious public.
