Science 2.0 For TV - Product Planning

Friday, August 5, 2011 - 10:30 in Mathematics & Economics

This afternoon we had the first formal meeting for product planning of the Science 2.0 television pilot.   As you can imagine, there was talk of technical details, how the creative guys will set up the shot lists and storyboard the segments, what segments we will use, and then some of the philosophical stuff.Like, what will make Science 2.0 a science show for the next century?I told the agency and the producer what a fond recollection U.S. scientists of today have for shows like "Nova" and Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" - but noted that at the time, those were not regarded as stodgy, traditional ways of doing science on television, they were cutting edge.read more

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