Almost 20 years after the death of Carl Sagan, his popular TV show is being rebooted and has been given a 21st century makeover. The new show has really big shoes to fill but 20th Century Fox hopes that the remake will be just as popular as the original show was on PBS.

The show's producers have high hopes for the new series titled Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Hosted by famous astrophysicist Neal deGrasse Tyson, the new show will air for 13 weeks on Fox at 9 p.m., taking the coveted Sunday night spot often reserved for animated comedies, according to CNN Money.

The new show was revived in 2009 when Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, invited Tyson to lunch. MacFarlane helped Tyson and Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow and the new show's producer and creator, pitch the show to Fox's executives. CNN Money explains that Fox executives Kevin Reilly and Peter Rice "both liked the idea of doing something that no one had ever done before," so MacFarlane's and Druyan's production companies began work on the improved show.

"The difference today is not only have visual effects advanced, but because this is airing on a major network, we had the resources -- we had access to people who have told these great dramatic stories on the big screen," Tyson explained. The show will keep some aspects of the old series like the Cosmic Calendar but will also feature new things. The show will attempt to bring science back into the mainstream.

"Carl made it possible for everyone to feel goose bumps about the grandeur, beauty and romance of life in the cosmos," Druyan told the New York Daily News about her husband's work. "There are many surprises in the new show, and we're going places that Carl and I in the original series never got to go."

With sophisticated special effects and animated segments, the new show aims to make science more accessible. Fox and the show's producers are aiming big with the new show, according to the Daily News, since they will air the new episode simultaneously on multiple channels in the U.S. and in other 171 countries.