Cosmos A Space-Time Odyssey


Genius Brands launching SpacePop on YouTube

Andy Heyward’s Genius Brands International is launching its new series SpacePop on YouTube. The animated series will roll out on the video platform next week on its own dedicated channel. Six episodes will be on the channel at launch. The fashion-themed musical show follows five teenage princesses who disguise themselves as musicians while they secretly […]

Thrones most illegally shared US show, CBS hardest hit network

New research into illegal file sharing shows that over the course of one week a raft of top scripted series were being shared by 3.7 million users around the world via the peer-to-peer BitTorrent network. Anti-piracy tech firm Ceg Tek conducted the research ahead of the Cable Show, the cable industry trade show that is […]

Nat Geo’s Cosmos the most popular show MIPDoc

National Geographic’s space series Cosmos – A Spacetime Odyssey was the most-screened programme at this year’s MIPDoc in Cannes. The big-budget series proved popular with doc buyers in town for the factual market although by programming category, history was the most-screened genre. Behind Cosmos was Polish series Warsaw 1935 3D, which shows the city in […]

Watch this space

Almost 60 years after the Americans and Russians battled for supremacy of the stars, two new reality TV formats are engaged in their own space race, while more broadly factual space programming is becoming hot property with Nat Geo set to launch its Cosmos reboot on Sunday (March 8). Huw Fullerton reports. Who will win […]