But although Tyson is an important author in his own right, he didn’t conceive, write or produce Cosmos. He essentially served the role of an actor or a news anchor, a charismatic and credible figure reading someone else’s words off a Teleprompter. Those words, and damn near everything else about the show, were the work of Ann Druyan, the writer and executive producer who also co-created the original Cosmos series with her late husband, Carl Sagan, more than 30 years ago.
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