From Carl Sagan to hack comedian, FOX set to produce redneck version of Cosmos

“Cosmos,” the 1980 documentary mini-series that encouraged a generation of viewers to contemplate the origins of the universe and their place in it, and made an unlikely television personality out of the astronomer Carl Sagan, is poised to return to terrestrial airwaves. Only this time the starship is being steered by a pilot whose identity you might not surmise even if you had billions and billions of guesses.

On Friday the Fox network is to announce that it has ordered a 13-episode series, “Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey,” expected to be broadcast in 2013. As part of a creative team that includes Ann Druyan, Sagan’s widow and a collaborator on the original “Cosmos,” one of the executive producers is Seth MacFarlane, the creator, producer, co-star and animating spirit of “Family Guy,” the bawdy and irreverent Fox cartoon sitcom.

Guess the story of the Universe will be told via offensive racist fart jokes.

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Digg Bans Brave New Films

for this video, and then un-bans them...

and for inappropriate content to boot...how can it be inappropriate. It just won't be FOX without daily shots of scantily clad woman and righteous anchors wagging fingers saying "Shame, shame!"

wouldn't have anything to do with the fact News Corp has been looking to buy Digg (and if they do, Digg as we know it will be gone forever...)