Netflix’s ‘The Creative Brain’ Host David Eagleman Launches Shingle With U.S. Producers Matt Tauber & Adam Fratto

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Science presenter David Eagleman, whose past credits include Netflix’s The Creative Brain and the BBC/PBS’ The Brain, has launched a private equity-backed shingle with U.S.

producer vets Matt Tauber and Adam Fratto. Cognito Entertainment will focus on science shows spanning both scripted and unscripted, along with documentaries, features and podcasts.

The outfit has already optioned Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel Every Version of You as an international feature film and is also shopping Galileo, a six-part TV series about the “father of science” from BAFTA-winning producer Karen Tenkhoff (Motorcyle Diaries) and Jon Levin (Marshall, The Breadwinner).

Meanwhile, Eagleman has penned docuseries The Invisible Enemy about the way civilization has been shaped by a long history of germs, viruses and microbes, with Emmy-nominated producer Jonathan Grupper showrunning and Seema Yasmin hosting.