Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman is an American science documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 television series narrated by American actor Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...

. It began airing on Science in the United States on June 9, 2010.

Development

The TV channel Science has been highlighting what VP of Production Bernadette McDaid calls the "Rock Stars of Science", such as Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

is an American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, the co-founder of string field theory, and a "communicator" and "popularizer" of science...

 and Brian Cox

Brian Cox (physicist)

Brian Edward Cox, OBE , is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at...

. "We wanted to merge our 'Rock Stars of Science' and merge that with the superstars of pop culture". When Science general manager Deborah Myers heard that Morgan Freeman was very interested in things to do with the universe and space and "asks the big philosophical questions", she approached Freeman and his producer and proposed making a series together.

In February 2011, Sean Carroll

Sean M. Carroll

Sean Michael Carroll is a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is a theoretical cosmologist specializing in dark energy and general relativity...

 confirmed on his Twitter page that he has started shooting Season 2 of Through the Wormhole. On May 17, 2011, Discovery confirmed the second season would be premiering on Science on June 8, 2011.

Season 1

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Season 2

There are 9 episodes in the second season.

epguides.com lists episode 10 as "Is There an Equation of Everything?" However, there is a bonus episode not yet aired that is called "Are There Parallel Universes?"
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DVD releases

In region 1, season 1 was released on DVD on March 8, 2011, and season 2 was released on November 22, 2011.

See also

• The Universe
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• How the Universe Works
  How the Universe Works
  How the Universe Works is a mini-series that originally aired on the Discovery Channel April 25, 2010 to May 24, 2010. It was narrated by Mike Rowe.- Episode list :...
  
  
• Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
  Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking
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