Television and Movie Writing Career
Along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series COSMOS and a producer for the motion picture CONTACT.
Druyan is the chief executive officer and the co-founder of the "Cosmos Studios". In 2009, she distributed a series of podcasts called At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan in which she described the life of husband, Carl Sagan, her works, and their marriage.
In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to COSMOS, to be called Cosmos: A space-time Odyssey, which is expected to be telecast in 2013.
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