Dermot O'Leary will front Channel 4's ambitious new Live from Space Season.Including a live two-hour broadcast from the International Space Station and Mission Control in Houston, the trio of hi-spec space shows ordered by Channel 4's factual team will also have unprecedented access to NASA.Alongside the Live from Space: Lap of the Planet special, Channel 4 will also air 60-minute documentaries Astronauts: Living in Space and Astronauts: Houston We Have a Problem.
To the Americans, O'Leary is one of the top presenters. Has the X Factor gig.
Hopefully it will be good. Surprised it's Channel 4 though. Remember Space Cadets?
The last spacestation on Channel 4 was Babylon 5.
He's done other serious stuff. He's pretty versatile. Honestly wouldn't worry
Quote from: DavisSTS on 01/10/2014 02:39 amHopefully it will be good. Surprised it's Channel 4 though. Remember Space Cadets? That was so bad it was good. I think it's still Channel 4's most expensive show.Quote from: A_M_Swallow on 01/10/2014 02:19 pmThe last spacestation on Channel 4 was Babylon 5.They are repeating that show from the start on Watch (Channel 109 on Sky). Quote from: elmarko on 01/10/2014 07:50 pmHe's done other serious stuff. He's pretty versatile. Honestly wouldn't worry Yeah, he's done some hard subject documentaries before. He's better known for Big Brother, X Factor and Radio 2, but that'll get some outsiders watching.
Yeah, he's done some hard subject documentaries before. He's better known for Big Brother, X Factor and Radio 2, but that'll get some outsiders watching.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 01/11/2014 12:40 amYeah, he's done some hard subject documentaries before. He's better known for Big Brother, X Factor and Radio 2, but that'll get some outsiders watching.I just hope he doesn't do the X Factor hosting style by throwing and catching the microphone, spinning on the spot going 'Swoosh!' and then asking us to comment at hashtag whatever it is..
However, to a lesser extent – but with more relevance to what you're reading – Gravity also taught us that space is very pretty to look at from a safe distance. And that's why, buoyed up by this newfound public enthusiasm for all things celestial, broadcasters are falling over themselves to replicate it on the small screen. Channel 4 has announced its Live from Space Season, featuring Professor Stephen Hawking, astronaut Tim Peake and, obviously, Dermot O'Leary. It will culminate in a live two-hour interactive extravaganza from the International Space Station in March, as it completes a full orbit of Earth.Not to be outdone, National Geographic and Fox have also announced the grandly titled Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey for March. A sequel of sorts to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, this new series promises to "bring to life stories of the heroic quest for knowledge, transporting viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest – and the smallest – scale". It, too, won't be short of authority – astrophysicist Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson will present and the whole thing will be executive-produced, obviously, by Seth MacFarlane.