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=== Television === * In 2005, Court TV (now [[TruTV]]) crime documentary series ''Mugshots'' released an episode on Escobar titled "Pablo Escobar – Hunting The Druglord".<ref>{{cite web|title=Mugshots {{!}} Pablo Escobar – Hunting the Druglord|url=http://main.snagfilms.com/films/title/mugshots_pablo_escobar_hunting_pablo|website=snagfilms.com|access-date=24 October 2017|language=en|date=2005|quote=This episode follows Escobar on his journey to becoming the Columbian Godfather.|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024155854/http://main.snagfilms.com/films/title/mugshots_pablo_escobar_hunting_pablo|archive-date=24 October 2017}}</ref> * In the 2007 [[HBO]] television series, ''[[Entourage (U.S. TV series)|Entourage]]'', actor [[Vincent Chase]] (played by [[Adrian Grenier]]) is cast as Escobar in a fictional film entitled ''Medellín''.<ref name="entourage">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ew.com/recap/entourage-making-medellin|title=''Entourage'': The making of ''Medellín''|last=Barius|first=Claudette|date=18 June 2007|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=4 September 2016|archive-date=17 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117160340/http://www.ew.com/recap/entourage-making-medellin|url-status=live}}</ref> * One of [[ESPN]]'s ''[[30 for 30]]'' series films, ''The Two Escobars'' (2010), by directors [[Jeff Zimbalist|Jeff]] and Michael Zimbalist, looks back at Colombia's World Cup run in 1994 and the relationship between sports and the country's criminal gangs — notably the Medellín narcotics cartel run by Escobar. The other Escobar in the film title refers to former [[Colombian national football team|Colombian]] defender [[Andrés Escobar]] (no relation to Pablo), who was shot and killed one month after conceding an own goal that contributed to the elimination of the Colombian national team from the [[1994 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://the2escobars.com/|publisher=the2escobars.com|title=The Two Escobars|access-date=1 October 2010|archive-date=4 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151204175840/http://www.the2escobars.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[Caracol TV]] produced a [[television series]], ''[[El cartel (TV series)|El cartel]]'' (''The Cartel''), which began airing on 4 June 2008 where Escobar is portrayed by an unknown model when he is shot down by Cartel del Sur's hitmen. * Also Caracol TV produced a TV Series, ''[[Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord|Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal (Pablo Escobar, The Boss of Evil)]]'', which began airing on 28 May 2012, and stars Andrés Parra as Pablo Escobar. It is based on Alonso Salazar's book ''La parábola de Pablo''.<ref name="zap">{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/07/10/telemundo-medias-pablo-escobar-el-patron-del-mal-averages-nearly-2-2-million-total-viewers/141131/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719022027/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/07/10/telemundo-medias-pablo-escobar-el-patron-del-mal-averages-nearly-2-2-million-total-viewers/141131/|archive-date=19 July 2012|title=Telemundo Media's 'Pablo Escobar, El Patron del Mal' Averages Nearly 2.2 Million Total Viewersby zap2it.com |date=10 July 2012|work=TV by the Numbers|publisher=Zap2It|access-date=4 September 2016}}</ref> Parra reprises his role in TV series ''Football Dreams, A World of Passion'' and in the first season of ''[[El Señor de los Cielos season 1|El Señor de los Cielos]]''. Parra has declared not to play the character again so as not to [[Typecasting|typecast]] himself. * [[RTI Producciones]] produced a TV Series for [[RCN Televisión]], ''[[Tres Caínes]]'', was released on 4 March 2013, which Escobar is portrayed by the Colombian actor Juan Pablo Franco (who portrayed general Muriel Peraza in ''Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal'') in the first phase of the series. Franco reprises his role in ''[[Surviving Escobar: Alias JJ]]''. * Also in 2013, [[Fox Telecolombia]] produced for RCN Televisión a TV Series, ''Alias El Mexicano'', released on 5 November 2013, which Escobar is portrayed by an unknown actor in a minor role. * A [[Netflix]] original television series depicting the story of Escobar, titled ''[[Narcos]]'', was released on 28 August 2015, starring Brazilian actor [[Wagner Moura]] as Pablo.<ref name="narcos1">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/new-on-netflix-august-2015-from-narcos-and-spellbound-to-kick-ass-2-and-dinotrux-10421117.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/new-on-netflix-august-2015-from-narcos-and-spellbound-to-kick-ass-2-and-dinotrux-10421117.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=New on Netflix August 2015: From Narcos and Spellbound to Kick Ass 2 and Dinotrux|last=Shepherd|first=Jack|date=28 July 2015|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=4 September 2016}}</ref> Season two premiered on the streaming service on 2 September 2016.<ref name="narcos2">{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/narcos-season-2-binge-watching-episode-guide-925064|title='Narcos' Season 2: Episode-by-Episode Binge-Watching Guide|last=Strause|first=Jackie|date=2 September 2016|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=4 September 2016|archive-date=18 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018200930/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/narcos-season-2-binge-watching-episode-guide-925064/|url-status=live}}</ref> * In 2016, [[Teleset]] and [[Sony Pictures Television]] produced for RCN Televisión the TV Series ''[[En la boca del lobo]]'', was released on 16 August 2016, which Escobar is portrayed by [[Fabio Restrepo]] (who portrayed Javier Ortiz in ''Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal'') as the character of Flavio Escolar. * [[National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)|National Geographic]] in 2016 broadcast a biography series ''[[Facing (TV series)|Facing]]'' that included an episode featuring Escobar.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sang|first1=Lucia I. Suarez|title=Ex-DEA agents who fought Pablo Escobar headline new NatGeo documentary|url=http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/08/30/ex-dea-agents-who-fought-pablo-escobar-headline-new-natgeo-documentary.html|access-date=13 October 2017|publisher=Fox News|date=30 August 2016|archive-date=18 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018200934/https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ex-dea-agents-who-fought-pablo-escobar-headline-new-natgeo-documentary|url-status=live}}</ref> * On 24 January 2018, Netflix released the 68-minute-long documentary ''Countdown to Death: Pablo Escobar'' directed by Santiago Diaz and Pablo Martin Farina.<ref>{{cite web|title=Countdown to Death: Pablo Escobar|work=[[Netflix]]|url=https://www.netflix.com/br/title/80175405}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Is Countdown to Death: Pablo Escobar (2017) on Netflix USA?|url=https://whatsnewonnetflix.com/usa/m/countdown-to-death-pablo-escobar-2017|work=What's New on Netflix USA|access-date=30 November 2018|archive-date=18 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018200954/https://whatsnewonnetflix.com/usa/1983815/countdown-to-death-pablo-escobar-2017|url-status=live}}</ref> *''Killing Escobar'' was a documentary televised in the UK in 2021. It concerned a failed attempt by mercenaries, contracted by the Cali Cartel and led by [[Peter McAleese]], to assassinate Escobar in 1989. * Fox Telecolombia produced in 2019 a TV Series, ''[[El General Naranjo]]'', which aired on 24 May 2019, which Escobar is portrayed by the Colombian actor Federico Rivera.
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