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Narcos director Andrés Baiz will helm Scott Free and AGC thriller Panopticon, based on the Black List script by Emily Jerome. Tom Moran and Vera Meyer will shepherd the project with Kevin Walsh producing for Scott Free alongside Jerome and AGC Studios CEO Stuart Ford and Head of Production Linda McDonough. Ridley…

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros’ coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street is to be adapted into a TV drama by Gaumont, the producer behind Netflix hit Narcos. The House on Mango Street is made up of series of vignettes about the characters that populate a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, seen…

Like the ravenous appetites of the title character of Hannibal, Gaumont Television USA intends to make a meal of their former CEO with an amended countersuit filed just now. Since former Gaumont International Television boss Katie O'Connell Marsh took her old employers to court in early 2018 over potentially millions…

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…