The super production has arrived in 5 different continents and has recently arrived on DVD in Mexico and North America. Pablo Escobar, The Drug lord was also among the Top 50 formats that has changed the world of television in recent times according the Witlist.com portal, making it one of the most impeccable productions, breaking audience and rating records in Latin America and other countries that bought the series from Caracol TV Internacional.

LE MONDE

“Pablo Escobar arrives on French screens after having conquered the Hispanic audience in Latin America last year… This series has broken all records, not only in production costs but audience ratings. A historical 11 million viewers in its premiere, repeating this success in its debut on the Hispanic American network, Telemundo”

SATELLIFAX

“The Colombian series was rewarded with 11 awards during an international film festival in Cartagena, Colombia. Since its Premiere in May of last year, its become the series most loved by the public, reaching historical audience figures”

TV  GRANDES CHAINES

“Viewers will be caught up in this “scarface” which started from zero and met a dazzling rise, to the point of challenging the State. This series broke all audience records in Colombia and seduced the French public also”

VSD

“Pablo Escobar: an amazing story! 20 years after its elimination, this big fish is the object of a series of long duration which has caused controversy in Colombia and has pulverized historical ratings”

TELE CABLE SAT

“It’s the most expensive and most watched series on Colombian television and in many countries of Latin America… Pablo Escobar, the pattern of evil became a social and cultural phenomenon with pedagogical virtues that transcend the mere fun of a television series. Reaching historic levels of audience, we want this series to repeat success on France O”

TELEPOCHE

“With huge success in Latin America, Pablo Escobar’s pattern of evil reveals the fate of this historic character. The producers of the series, are victims of the cruelty of the head of the Medellín cartel, responsible for the deaths of many of his associates and family… This is a series on another level”

Andrés Wiesner, Director of the serie Marcados por la muerte

In Colombia they managed an interesting spin on conjectural issues, both political as social. “This country is going through a very acidic problem of armed conflict and guerrillas, then under journalistic and investigatory hard work, we chose some people with stories that we could help and protect them, to get into their problems.”

On the difficulties the production faced for the shoot, the journalist and director said: “We were in jungles where there’s armed conflict and witnesses as children living in combat with other gangs attacked their house while we were filming. However, the production team was never threatened or violated in their safety, but we were in areas that involved risk. Also, it was difficult to get closer, since these people are not friends of the media and to allow us to accompany them was complicated.”

Each episode features from young gang members, to a woman that was burned with acid and now she is leading an ONG, to a peasant woman who is the leader of a social movement with over 20 thousand people. “In each story there are sad endings and happy ones, having at the end their family dead or in jail, or who has received an reward for its labor”, finalized the director.

The shooting lasted a year and a half, there are 8 half hour episodes and is transmitted on Sundays in prime time on pay TV, TruTV.

Filming a Scene of the serie

The Wit, Swiss-based agency that studies TV trends worldwide, presents this list, and during the commemoration of its 50th anniversary, will award this distinction to the series Pablo Escobar: “El patrón del mal”, ratifying it as one of the most outstanding productions of recent years. The list includes TV classics like Sesame Street, The Wheel of Fortune, Dallas, Columbo, Star Trek and Jeopardy, milestones in the history of video that will continue to be relevant for generations to come.

The general production was managed by Juana Uribe, Vice-President Caracol TV Network, who accepted the challenge and accomplished a great production that narrates each episode with film optics. The series was shot completely outdoors in 500 locations and with more than 1,500 actors.

“This is the story of Pablo Escobar, narrated with deep respect for his victims, and for those that fought and opposed his destructive power. We tell this story with the ability to envisage history from a distance, in order to illustrate it correctly”, says Uribe.

The Wit had previously referred to this important series as the most commented launch throughout Latin-America’s social networks in 2012, and the first episode, as the second most commented news of the week worldwide.

The titles for each decade will be gradually announced in Facebook during the weeks prior to MIPTV:

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To see the Pablo Escobar, the Drug Lord demo, go to:
http://www.caracolinternacional.com/en-us/p/107/pablo-escobar–the-drug-lord

SUBIDA: Bajo su cargo, será responsable de las áreas de negocio y el desarrollo de acuerdos publicitarios de la compañía

TEXTO: Con base en Bogotá, Cabrales reportará a Allan Navarrete, VP sénior y gerente general para México, Centroamérica y Colombia, de Dscovery Networks Latin America/U.S.

“Confiamos en que Felipe aportará a Discovery su demostrado éxito a fin de continuar expandiendo nuestro negocio en uno de los mercados de mayor crecimiento de la región y en el cual nuestra empresa cuenta con un sólido posicionamiento”, comentó Navarrete.

En su historia laboral, Cabrales Urdaneta trabajó como gerente comercial para Caracol S.A. – Prisa Radio Colombia. Previo a ello, se desempeñó en diferentes posiciones gerenciales a lo largo de varios medios colombianos, tales como Caracol Radio, Noticiero Las Noticias, TeleCaribe y TeleBarranquilla. Trabajó, a su vez, como productor de televisión independiente.