Allegations put Tyson’s ‘StarTalk’ show on hold

The current season of the science-based talk show “StarTalk” is on hold following recent sexual misconduct allegations made against host Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The National Geographic channel will not air new episodes of “StarTalk” until the investigation into the astrophysicist is completed.

In November, two women accused Tyson of sexual misconduct in a story published on Patheos. Katelyn Allers, a physics and astronomy professor at Bucknell University, claimed she was “felt up” by Tyson in 2009.

In the same story Tyson’s former assistant Ashley Watson accused him of “inappropriate sexual advances” that forced her to quit her job.

Allers and Watson’s allegations followed those made several years ago by Tchiya Amet, who accused Tyson of rape while the two were graduate students at University of Texas at Austin in the 1980s.