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FIC’s Cosmos set for roll-out

Fox International Channels (FIC) is planning a simultaneous global roll-out for its US broadcast sibling’s ambitious series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

FIC will premiere the 13-part series on 200 of its channels around the world at the same time as it debuts on Fox in the US, at 21.00 on Sunday March 9, and a day later on National Geographic Channel.

The series, executive produced by Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane, was first mooted in 2011 and in July last year it was announced that National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) would show it internationally.

More details of that roll-out have now been released, with the show premiering on all 90 NGCI channels in 180 countries, as well as 120 Fox-branded channels in 125 countries. FIC says this makes it the biggest ever global launch for a TV series.

The show is a successor to the Emmy- and Peabody-winning Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which became the most watched public service broadcast series of all time when it aired on PBS in 1980.

Ann Druyan, who with her late husband Carl Sagan co-wrote the original Cosmos series, is writing and executive producing the new show alongside MacFarlane. Astronomer Steven Soter, who was also involved with the original, is onboard again.

It is produced by Druyan’s Cosmos Studios, founded in 2000 and based in Ithaca, and MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Productions.

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