El Señor de los Cielos

El Señor de los Cielos
Created by	Luis Zelkowicz
Developed by	Telemundo Studios, Miami Argos Comunicación Caracol TV
Starring	Rafael Amaya Fernanda Castillo Ximena Herrera Gabriel Porras Carmen Villalobos
Country of origin	United States Colombia Mexico
Original language	Spanish
No. of episodes	2 (aired)
Production
Production location	Miami
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	42-45 minutes
Original release
Network	Telemundo
Release	April 15, 2013 – present

El Señor de los Cielos (The Lord of the Heavens) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Colombian Caracol TV.

El Señor de los Cielos reimagines and follows the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes as he became a bonafide Mexican Drug Lord, and raises from the ranks to become the boss of the Juarez Cartel in the 1980s and 1990s. Amado Carrillo became known as "El Señor de los Cielos" (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport drugs. He was also known for laundering over US$20 million via Colombia to finance his huge fleet of planes. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration described Carrillo as the most powerful drug trafficker of his era.

He died in a Mexican hospital after undergoing extensive plastic surgery to change his appearance. In his final days, Carrillo was being tracked by Mexican and U.S. authorities. He is regarded as one of the wealthiest criminals in history, with an estimated net-worth of US$ 25 billion.

History

In May 2012, Telemundo announced a prime-time broadcast of El Señor de los Cielos as part of the 2013 season. As of April 15, 2013, Telemundo is broadcasting El Señor de los Cielos weeknights at 10pm/9c, replacing El Rostro de la Venganza. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.

Cast

Main Cast

Actor	Character	Description
Rafael Amaya	Aurelio Casillas
Ximena Herrera	Ximena Letrán
Robinson Díaz	El Cabo
Raúl Méndez	Chacorta
Gabriel Porras	Marco Mejía
Andrés Parra	Pablo Escobar
Carmen Villalobos	Leonor Ballesteros
Fernanda Castillo	Mónica Robles
Sara Corrales	Matilde Rojas
Fernando Solórzano
Arturo Barba	El Turco
Lisa Owen	Doña Alba
Juan Ríos	General Jiménez Arroyo
Angélica Celaya	Eugenia Casas
Marco Pérez	Guadalupe Robles
Tommy Vásquez
Fabián Peña	Linares
Emmanuel Orenday
Ruy Senderos	Heriberto Casillas
Bianca Calderón
Angel Cerlo
Arnoldo Picazzo
Juan Ignacio Aranda	Ramiro de la Garza
Jorge Zárate
Javier Díaz Dueñas	Don Cleto Letrán

Secondary Cast

Actor	Character	Description
Rodolfo Valdés	Alejandro Negrete
Guillermo Quintanilla	Isidro Robles
Julián Arango
Rocío Verdejo	Doris

United States broadcast

• Release dates, episode name & length, and U.S. viewers based on Telemundo's broadcast.

Air Date	Number	Episode Title	U.S. viewers	Duration
April 15, 2013	001	Arranca la balacera	1,925,000	56 minutes
April 16, 2013	002	N/A	N/A
April 17, 2013	003	N/A	N/A
April 18, 2013	004	N/A	N/A
April 19, 2013	005	N/A	N/A
April 22, 2013	006	N/A	N/A
April 23, 2013	007	N/A	N/A
April 24, 2013	008	N/A	N/A
April 26, 2013	009	N/A	N/A
April 29, 2013	010	N/A	N/A

International release

Country	Alternate title/Translation	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Series finale	Weekly schedule	Timeslot
Honduras	El Señor de los Cielos	HTV Mundo	April 29, 2013		Monday to Friday	20:00

Production

• Filming begun on January 14 of 2013 in Mexico.
• According to Telemundo, this will be the most expensive produced telenovela to date. The record was previously held by La Reina del Sur where he co-starred as Raimundo Dávila Parra "El Güero". As of 2010, the estimated production budget was estimated between $10 – $20 million dollars.
• Andrés Parra will guest star once again playing Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar just mere months after starring in Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal on the same time slot.
• Carmen Villalobos will also make a special appearance. She is best remember as Catalina Santana in another Telemundo production Sin Senos no hay Paraiso were she played an underage call girl for Colombian drug lords.