COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey (National Geographic Channel)

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Brand new episode 7 tonight - "The Clean Room". 10pm on National Geographic Channel. How old is our Earth?
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COSMOS blu-ray to be released on 10 June 2014! Can pre-order now. (credit: @SethMacFarlane :))

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For those who don't want to read spoilers about COSMOS episodes, please don't read this thread! :)






Last week's episode 8 is awesome - "Sisters of the Sun". Current and aspiring female scientists should watch. APers will enjoy this episode too - Carina Nebula and Milky Way from Australian outback!

Tonight at 10pm, new episode 9 - "The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth".

Official promo vid from NatGeo:

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Brand new episode 10 last night (wrongly numbered as 9 by StarHub, again) ... Michael Faraday!
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Hello, I'm new to this site, so happy to find someone else who enjoys the show!

Can you please tell me when will the next episode be showed and repeated?
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Been watching this documentary. Super interesting. Instead of the usual eye candy astro presentations, they chose to go with the origins.
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SpaceShallot wrote:Hello, I'm new to this site, so happy to find someone else who enjoys the show!

Can you please tell me when will the next episode be showed and repeated?
Hi SpaceShallot. Welcome to the forum. You can search for the show schedules on StarHub and SingTel cable tv websites:

StarHub - http://www.starhubtvanywhere.com/schedule
SingTel - http://mio.singtel.com/miotv/programme-guide.asp

In Singapore, new episodes will be first broadcasted at 10pm on a Saturday, about one week after US.

Last Sunday's new episode in US was postponed because of an event that showcase cars going round and round the track for hours. :)
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shirox wrote:Been watching this documentary. Super interesting. Instead of the usual eye candy astro presentations, they chose to go with the origins.
Yupe. Awesome script and story telling. Audience appreciates such show which does not insult their intelligence and dumb everything down. Hopefully, there will be a season 2.
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Thank you Gary! I just watched ep 12, it was beautiful
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Next week would be the last...After that you can start on the original Carl Sagan version!
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