Nat Geo and Fox renew Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Seth MacFarlane will return as executive producer of the reboot of the acclaimed Carl Sagan series. Season 2 will be called Cosmos: Possible World and is expected to premiere in early 2019. It will be a follow up to the 2014 revival, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, which was the most-watched series ever on National Geographic internationally, viewed by more than 135 million people worldwide.

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