TEHRAN -- A group of Iranian entertainers plan to launch a music competition series which will be distributed in home video shops.
“In this series, entitled ‘Ideal Voice of Parsian’ a fair Iranian competition will be held in an Iranian atmosphere,” producer Farhad Ashrafi told the Persian service of ISNA on Wednesday.
Only men are allowed to participate in the competition, he added.
Based on an Islamic law, females are forbidden to sing in public.
The project has been arranged by Saeid Moradinejad, who will also be the artistic director of the series. In addition, musician Mohammadreza Cheraghali will be on the jury.
“The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has approved the series and the group is seeking to provide the preliminaries for the video project,” Ashrafi said.
No more details were mentioned about the series.
This series seems to copycat “Pop Idol”, the British television music competition, and other programs broadcast by some foreign Persian satellite channels.
Over past three years, Iranian TV programmers have begun to imitate many foreign satellite programs to convince Iranian viewers to watch the national TV and productions.
The latest one was “Iranian Dinner”, which was directed by Bijan Birang in early 2012. The series mimicked “Come Dine with Me”, United Kingdom’s popular Channel 4 television program. However, “Iranian Dinner” did not receive a warm welcome from the Iranian people.
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