"Cosmos" Just Got Nominated for 12 Emmys

It was a truly groundbreaking moment in television. Educationally driven science content was once anathema on primetime television, but earlier this year, Seth Macfarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson and company set out to prove that wrong with Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a remake of the classic Carl Sagan-hosted show from 1980. And if today's Emmy nominations mean anything, the result is a major triumph. Cosmos has received 12 of them. That's not quite as good as the 19 for Game of Thrones, or 16 for ...