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El Pantera: Second Season Starts Tonight

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Sunday, 20 July 2008

Well, that was fast. Regular readers might remember El Pantera, the Mexican action series I worked on, running the writers' room and overseeing story development for the second season for a while.

Univision is already starting to run those episodes, starting tonight at 9 pm Eastern, 8 pm Central. Check it out!

While I knew the second season had begun airing in Mexico (to very nice ratings, I'm told), I didn't think it would be here for a few more months. But I just caught a promo while flipping through channels. It looks great. I haven't seen the actual episodes yet myself. But now I totally can't wait.

If you don't habla the español, you may not even need to. This is a profoundly Mexican show, but the episodes should be visual enough and actiony enough that you'd probably follow the rough outline of the story even with the volume down.

Just from seeing the promo, I'm already happy for and proud of the folks I worked with for turning our string of ideas on an office whiteboard into what look to be very cool episodes. It looks like they did a terrific job.

¡Felicidades otra vez a todos de los gentes creativos y talentos de El Pantera!