Exclusive: Afghan Star is a music talent format that ran for 15 seasons in Afghanistan and shephered in a cultural revolution in the country. Launched four years after the fall of the Taliban, the series searched for talented singers before it was canceled when the Taliban regained power and banned music.
The story of the show and the revolution that it ushered in is now the subject of a new podcast documentary series hosted by John Legend.
Legend has teamed with iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope, the company behind The Last Soviet podcast, on Afghan Star, which will premiere on May 15.
The eight-part series tells the story of Afghanistan’s cultural revolution told through the lens of the country’s first musical talent show. The series will explore how the talent competition inspired women singing without hijabs, the country’s first rapper, people of warring ethnic groups hugging and cheering for each other...
The story of the show and the revolution that it ushered in is now the subject of a new podcast documentary series hosted by John Legend.
Legend has teamed with iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope, the company behind The Last Soviet podcast, on Afghan Star, which will premiere on May 15.
The eight-part series tells the story of Afghanistan’s cultural revolution told through the lens of the country’s first musical talent show. The series will explore how the talent competition inspired women singing without hijabs, the country’s first rapper, people of warring ethnic groups hugging and cheering for each other...
- 5/8/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lance Bass, a member of pop group Nsync and a trained Russian cosmonaut, is hosting a new podcast series about space.
Bass will host The Last Soviet, which tells the story of Russian astronaut Sergei Krikalev’s 313 days in space during the collapse of the Ussr.
The eight-part series, which comes from iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope, will launch on February 15.
In 2002, Bass underwent training in Star City, Russia and became a certified cosmonaut. He was certified both by the Russian Space Program and by NASA for a mission on the Soyuz Tma-1 spacecraft to the International Space Station but after his financial sponsors backed out, Bass was denied a seat on the mission.
Krikalev was stranded on board Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and his return was delayed for twice as long as the mission was planned originally.
“I fell in love with space when my grandfather...
Bass will host The Last Soviet, which tells the story of Russian astronaut Sergei Krikalev’s 313 days in space during the collapse of the Ussr.
The eight-part series, which comes from iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope, will launch on February 15.
In 2002, Bass underwent training in Star City, Russia and became a certified cosmonaut. He was certified both by the Russian Space Program and by NASA for a mission on the Soyuz Tma-1 spacecraft to the International Space Station but after his financial sponsors backed out, Bass was denied a seat on the mission.
Krikalev was stranded on board Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and his return was delayed for twice as long as the mission was planned originally.
“I fell in love with space when my grandfather...
- 2/8/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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