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Comic Con @ Home Looks to the Future with Cosmos

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Comic-Con @ Home had two major science panels this year and both were extraordinary to watch. The first, which involved the theoretical side of things, was a trip inside the third season of Fox’s Cosmos series.

The panel, which had an introduction executive producer Seth MacFarlane, did an amazing job of giving viewers hope in both humanity and the future. Before we got any further it really should be noted that MacFarlane, who is best known for his work on Family Guy and other comedies, really does have massive respect for science and scientists and without him, Cosmos wouldn’t exist in its modern incarnation. He doesn’t get nearly enough credit for that. MacFarlane spoke of why now, more than any other time in human history, we need to look to the scientists to save us. It was a moving speech.

Once the panel really began the audience was joined by the creator, executive producer, director, and writer Ann Druyan; host and acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson; executive producer, director, and writer Brannon Braga; executive producer Jason Clark; and visual effects supervisor Jeffrey A. Okun.

Any panel Tyson is a part of is going to be great but this was unique in that he wasn’t surrounded by scientists this time as much as colleagues in the entertainment industry. That brings out a different side of Tyson and allows for the conversation to take a new direction.

“Some of the stuff we talked about this season, almost felt like pre-cognition,” noted Druyan. This season, the third for Cosmos, is titled “Possible Worlds” and takes viewers on a journey through everything from biology to quantum physics and beyond.

“One of the great things I love about this show is that it combines knowledge and emotion. I’ve found that the best way to get people to take any action is to combine the two,” stated Tyson passionately. “What we are trying to do is give people a cosmic perspective of the way things work and I think by showing people that visually it really gets them involved.”

Druyan, who had worked with Carl Sagan on the original Cosmos series, got a bit nostalgic. She remembered an incident where someone criticized Sagan for not staying within the boundaries of physics, his main field. “But the world is not broken down that easily, all of the disciplinary fields work together and that’s something we want to show on this series.”

Tyson and the others spoke to the necessity of science and it’s role in progressing humanity forward. How now, more than ever, it’s crucial to who we are and our place in the universe. It’s a ride I cannot wait to take with them as Cosmos: Possible Worlds returns this fall on Fox.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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