http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/culture/24186-colombian-soap-opera-to-air-life-of-pablo-escobar.html
To SEE: 7:12 promo trailer
A soap opera about the life of legendary narco overlord Pablo Escobar will soon appear on the Caracol network.
The series...which promises gun battles, cockfights and half naked women...should be popular.
Escobar died during a gun fight with police at his home in Medellin in 1993.
Some of the soap's writers...called 'El Patron del Mal'/The Boss of Evil...are children of his victims.
NEW!!! The TV audience numbers are in...huge and historic...for the 1st episode of "El Patron'. It scored a 26.9 national rating.
The 1st hour averaged 62.7% of all TV viewers watching it from 9-10 p.m. Monday...and the numbers then grew to an amazing 79%...or about 11 million viewers.
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