Closer to Truth is a documentary talk television series that premiered on PBS on May 7, 2000.
Closer to Truth is a continuing television series on PBS & public television originally created, produced and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The first premiere series aired in 2000 for 2 seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season.
The current / third series of the program, Closer to Truth: Cosmos. Consciousness. God., launched in 2008, with 12 full seasons to date. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, executive producer, writer and presenter of the series. Peter Get ...
Premise
Closer to Truth is a continuing television series on PBS & public television originally created, produced and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. The first premiere series aired in 2000 for 2 seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season.
The current / third series of the program, Closer to Truth: Cosmos. Consciousness. God., launched in 2008, with 12 full seasons to date. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, executive producer, writer and presenter of the series. Peter Getzels is the co-creator and producer / director.
The show is centered on on-camera conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars, covering a diverse range of topics or questions from the size and nature of the universe, to the existence and essence of God, to the mystery of consciousness and the notion of free will.
Episodes
This series spans 15 seasons with 131 episodes.
Season
Episodes
First aired
Last aired
Season 1
14
May 7, 2000
August 6, 2000
Season 2
14
September 10, 2000
December 10, 2000
Season 3
15
May 1, 2003
August 7, 2003
Season 4
0
Season 5
8
May 20, 2010
Season 6
0
Season 7
0
Season 8
8
May 6, 2010
June 24, 2010
Season 9
13
September 30, 2010
December 23, 2010
Season 10
12
January 6, 2011
March 24, 2011
Season 11
12
April 7, 2011
June 23, 2011
Season 12
13
September 29, 2011
December 22, 2011
Season 13
11
April 5, 2012
June 21, 2012
Season 14
11
November 10, 2012
June 19, 2015
Season 15
0
Season 1 preview14 episodes total
Season 1 episode preview
Episode
Title
Air date
1
What are the Grand Questions of Science?
May 7, 2000
2
Will the Internet Change Humanity?
May 14, 2000
3
What's Creativity and Who's Creative?
A discussion on creativity, where it comes from and how it's applied. Among the panelists: TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, inventor Ray Kurzweil, music educator Robert Freeman, creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and corporate-creativity expert John Kao.