All-New ‘Dateline’ Podcast Features In-Depth Interviews with People Whose Lives Changed in an Instant, Including Colin Kaepernick, Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Scofield, Gabby Giffords, Adrianne Haslet and More
Click Here to Listen to Trailer, ‘Dateline’ Premium Subscribers Can Listen Early Starting September 7
August 31, 2026 — Lester Holt will host an all new Dateline podcast, Before & After with Lester Holt, beginning September 14.
The six-episode series features deeply personal interviews with those whose lives were transformed in an instant by violence, survival, loss, injustice or an unexpected turn of fate. The conversations explore what it takes to endure the unimaginable, rebuild a life, and find meaning and purpose in the aftermath. The first episode, featuring Colin Kaepernick, debuts September 14. A preview of the interview will be available tomorrow on NBCNews.com.
Holt will also speak with Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Scofield, Gabby Giffords, Adrianne Haslet and more.
Click here to listen to the trailer. Dateline Premium subscribers can listen early beginning September 7.
This is Holt’s second original podcast, following last year’s chart-topping series, The Last Appeal. Dateline original podcasts have seen more than 43 million downloads in 2026. Dateline’s podcast portfolio includes The Thing About Pam, Mommy Doomsday, Deadly Mirage, Trace of Suspicion, Mortal Sin, Something About Cari, 13 Alibis, The Girl in the Blue Mustang, Dateline: Missing in America, among others.
Before & After with Lester Holt is a production of Dateline and NBC News and is produced by Dan Slepian and Liz Brown Kuriloff. Paul Ryan is executive producer and Liz Cole is senior executive producer of Dateline.
For more information, contact:
Dominique Donahue
Dominique.Donahue@nbcuni.com
Liam Dahlborn
Liam.Dahlborn@nbcuni.com
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Dateline NBC is one of the top true crime podcast brands, with its original podcast series collectively amassing over 200 million downloads since 2019. In addition to its chart-topping original podcasts and showcast, hundreds of hours of Dateline are available to stream and listen to on Peacock’s Dateline 24/7 channel and across major streaming platforms. Now in its 34th season, Dateline NBC is the longest-running series in NBC primetime history, anchored by Lester Holt and featuring correspondents Blayne Alexander, Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz, Keith Morrison and Dennis Murphy. Liz Cole is the senior executive producer and Paul Ryan is the executive producer.
