Tried to watch the first Cosmos segment with Tyson.....unwatchable.
My wife and I were excited about the new series. She is not in the least technical, but she likes "The Universe" on the History Channel (so do I, mostly) and we planned to record it for our grandson. What a dud. BTW, Tyson did get to beclown himself at least once on "The Universe", but his role was minor and could be ignored. (He was spouting the conventional ignorance about Ptolemaic astronomy, a subject about which he knows less than my grandson.)