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There is still plenty of story left to be told in Narcos: Mexico. Netflix announced today that the drug trafficking drama will return for a second season. The series premiered November 16 with Eric Newman serving as executive producer and showrunner. The series is a companion to its predecessor Narcos which ran for…

EXCLUSIVE: Damián Alcázar (Narcos, La Delgada Línea Amarilla) and Tamara Vallarta (Paquita la del Barrio) are heading the cast of upcoming original drama Tijuana, a co-production of Netflix and Univision-owned Story House Entertainment. The show is billed as an unvarnished look at what journalists in Mexico face every…

The first CEO of Gaumont International Television is suing the company — now called Gaumont Television USA — claiming that it deprived her of “millions of dollars in bargained-for contingent compensation” from TV series she developed. Katie O’Connell Marsh already was a veteran television executive when was tapped as…

As it continues to grow internationally, Narcos producer Gaumont is set to open a new London-based television subsidiary this coming August. Gaumont UK will be run by Alison Jackson, the Kudos executive producer whose credits include Sky Atlantic/Amazon’s Tin Star. The move into the UK follows word last week that…

Matt Letscher (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash) is set to co-star in the upcoming fourth season of Netflix’s drug trafficking saga Narcos. He is a major new cast addition to the series alongside new stars Michael Peña and Diego Luna. With the bloody hunt for Pablo Escobar over, the DEA and agent Javier Peña (Pedro…

Michael Peña and Diego Luna are the latest names to be caught up in Netflix’s drug-trafficking saga. The pair have been cast in Season 4 of Narcos, which recently began production in Mexico City for a 2018 premiere. The streaming service offered no details about their characters or a logline for the fourth season. In…

Carlos Munoz Portal, 37, was murdered as he scouted locations in Mexico for the Netflix series Narcos. Ed French, 71, was scouting a commercial shoot at Twin Peaks in San Francisco when he was robbed and murdered in July. The Location Managers Guild International put out a statement about both of these…

Nearly a week after Carlos Munoz Portal died while scouting locations for Narcos, Pablo Escobar’s brother, Roberto De Jesus Escobar Gaviria, has urged Netflix to change the security protocol of its production. “People are dying,” said Olof K. Gustafsson, CEO of Escobar Inc. “It’s clearly not safe to film shows about…

A locations manager for Netflix’s Narcos was killed Monday, apparently by gunshot, in a rural area of Mexico known for gang-related drug violence. A report in the local press indicates 37-year-old Carlos Muñoz Portal died while scouting locations for the show. There are no specifics yet on what happened, but he was…

Netflix has released the official trailer for the third season of drug cartel drama Narcos. It was unveiled today in New York City, where this season was partially filmed. Now that the bloody hunt for Pablo Escobar has ended, the DEA turns its attention to the powerful Cali Cartel and its four Kings — Gilberto…

Netflix has set September 1 for the Season 3 release of Narcos. We’re also getting the first look at the third season of the drug trade drama series in a new teaser. In Season 3, with the bloody hunt for Pablo Escobar over, attention now turns to the the Cali Cartel. Led by four powerful godfathers, this cartel…

UPDATE with more detail: Narcos producer Gaumont Television has set Vanessa Shapiro as President of Worldwide Distribution. The exec joins from MarVista Entertainment where she had been EVP Distribution since 2007. She’ll be based in LA, but divide time with Paris. Along with the hire, Gaumont says it’s moving the…