Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Here at Pop Geeks we love real science just as much as we love science fiction and all of that other geeky stuff. So when we got a chance to interview Kara Vallow, animation producer and longtime Seth MacFarlane collaborator on shows like Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show, about the unique animation she and her team created for the new series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, we jumped at it. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, is hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and is a new version of the seminal Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the 1980s PBS series in which Carl Sagan opened the minds of millions with scientific concepts. A new episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on Fox. How did Seth MacFarlane initially sell you on doing a new version of Cosmos? Seth had already decided to do the show, after meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson and (executive producer, writer, co-creator of the original Cosmos and Sagan’s widow) Ann Druyan. It had been