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More than 30 years since the original series, Cosmos will once again find its way into people’s homes, this time led by Neil deGrasse Tyson. The new series—called Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey—premieres this Sunday, March 9, at 9:00pm ET/PT on FOX.

The show will air in 45 languages across 123 FOX-branded channels in 125 countries and 90 National Geographic Channels in over 170 countries. According to the producer, this constitutes the largest-ever global launch for a television series. I don’t know about you, but the fact that the world’s largest TV series launch is for a science show is pretty exciting to me.

Nothing brings this full-circle more than Tyson showing his own name written in the December 20, 1975 entry of Sagan’s day planner. At the time, Tyson was just a 17-year-old kid from the Bronx with dreams of becoming a scientist—but the world’s most famous astronomer was willing to meet with him and spend the day showing him around Cornell University. Now he’s the one in Sagan’s shoes, inspiring the next generation of kids, showing them that it doesn’t matter what you look like or where you come from—all you need is the ability to question everything.

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It began airing in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 11 March 2007. The series consists of three one-hour