Science Channel Press Release

NICK SAGAN SIGNS DEVELOPMENT DEAL WITH SCIENCE CHANNEL, SON OF THE ICONIC CARL SAGAN SET TO HOST AND DEVELOP NEW SERIES AND SPECIALS 

(Silver Spring, Md.) -- Science Channel has signed sci-fi writer Nick Sagan, son of famed astrophysicist and television icon Carl Sagan, to an exclusive development deal, Debbie Myers, general manager and executive vice president of programming for Science Channel, announced today. Sagan is represented by Creative Artists Agency.

Sagan will be working closely with Science Channel’s production team, hosting and developing new series and specials for the network.

“I’m thrilled to be working with the Science Channel,” Nick Sagan said. “A chance to shine a light on the wonder and exciting possibilities of science with such a smart and talented team is a dream come true for me. It’s very gratifying to me personally, and it’s also a way to honor my family,” Sagan added.

“Nick is a gifted storyteller. Growing up with a dad who just so happened to be one of science’s brightest minds and television’s brightest lights, he is a one-of-a-kind voice from sci-fi to sci fact. This fits exactly into Science Channel’s new direction, exploring the unknown and asking the big questions,” said Debbie Myers, general manager and executive vice president, programming for Science Channel. 

Sagan has been writing professionally since he was 22, crafting novels, screenplays, teleplays, comic books, animation episodes and computer games. He has worked for a variety of studios and production companies, including Paramount, Warner Brothers, New Line, Universal, Disney, actor/producer Tom Cruise, and director Martin Scorsese. Sagan co-wrote the award-winning computer adventure game, Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands. His film credits include adaptations of novels by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. LeGuin, Pierre Ouellette and Charles Pellegrino. Sagan’s television credits include two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and five episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, where he worked as a story editor.

Sagan was also recruited by astronaut Sally Ride to work for SPACE.com as Executive Producer of Entertainment & Games. During his tenure at SPACE.com, he began to formulate a series of science fiction novels, The Idlewild Trilogy, which was published by Penguin Putnam and has been translated into several different languages. Sagan then co-wrote You Call This The Future? with science writers Andy Walker and Mark Frary, which was hailed by Publishers’ Weekly as “a delightful ‘expedition in search of the future,’ providing clear explanations of today’s cutting-edge technologies to find where science fiction has become reality.”

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Comments

[Brad]

Congratulations! It will be great to see some more of your work!

[Tanner]

Hey, I'm pumped to find you on here. Your dad changed my life.

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk

I think your dad would have liked it.

I'll be checking this blog regularly.

[marissa]

Wow. That's amazing, congratulations!

I just discovered your blog, which is awesome.

This is incredibly repetitive you must hear it billions and billions..(sorry) of times a week, but your father was/is absolutely inspirational to me. I named my son after him (sagan tesla kinetic). & went on to study astrophysics in conjunction with photography because of his poetical & wonderfilled way of understanding the cosmos. I could go into detail of all the seemingly synchronized things that drew me to that point, but instead I will just say, the Passion you feel for your work in itself could honor your father for infinity on and on until the ends of the beginnings of another cosmos. Good luck out there. I'm super excited to see what develops from this. I'll be keeping up with your blog.

"For creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." That is a quote to live (& love) a life upon, I think. So I am.

[Fitz]

Please, please get a movie deal for Idlewild. I'd pay 50 bucks to see it if it was done right.

[Tomhoebbel]

Congratulations on the Science Channel Gig! I hope all else is well.
cheers,
Tom

[Musesong7]

Congratulations, Nick! The Sagan legacy continues.

Kathleen