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RCN Studios: Biopics and musical dramas lead company’s offer for spring markets

Alex Marin, Director of RCN Distribution

RCN Studios has announced its content lineup for the upcoming European spring markets. The Colombian company is presenting four new long-running productions (80×45′ each) at MIP London, Series Mania, and Content Europe. The slate includes a musical biopic, a contemporary drama about female friendship, and two melodramas centered on romance and family dynamics.

Musical Biopic: Darío Gómez: The King of the Broken Hearts

Leading the offer is the biographical series based on the life of the renowned Colombian singer. The plot follows Darío, whose life is marked by a tragedy at age 17 involving the accidental death of his father. The narrative explores a curse that condemns him to suffering and solitude. Despite the adversity—including enemies and the loss of loved ones—Darío travels to Medellín to carve a path in the music industry, eventually creating a new musical genre.

Musical Melodrama: The Mariachi’s Daughter

Set against the backdrop of ranchera music, this series focuses on Rosario Guerrero, a singer fighting to be heard in a male-dominated environment. The story centers on her relationship with Francisco Lara, a musician who fuses mariachi with other genres. Their romance sparks a conflict with «El Coloso,» a ranchera purist. However, the central tension lies in Francisco’s secret identity: he is Emiliano Sánchez Gallardo, a fugitive wanted by Interpol and the mafia for crimes he claims he did not commit.

Contemporary Drama: Best Friends Forever

This production addresses the lives of four college friends who face personal crises upon turning 40. The character arcs include an executive whose marriage and career collapse, a single mother dealing with her daughter’s departure, a woman discovering her husband is a narcissist, and an «eternal teenager» facing a high-risk pregnancy. The series follows the group as they attempt to rebuild their lives.

Romance and Business: Crimson Red

The slate is completed by Crimson Red, a telenovela that follows Juana and Jorge, a young couple launching an innovative makeup brand. As they seek opportunities for their business, family secrets and third parties—specifically characters Valeria and Marcelo—test their relationship. The narrative tracks their separation and eventual reunion as they attempt to reconcile their personal and professional lives.

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Darío Gómez (80×45) The king of the broken hearts.

Darío’s life is marked by tragedy. At just 17, he accidentally kills his own father, and a witch condemns him to a life of suffering, foretelling that he will lose the people he loves most and that his destiny is to die alone and forgotten. Bearing the weight of this curse, Darío travels to Medellín to start a new life and carve out a path in the music world, fighting to achieve his dream despite relentless adversity—enemies along the way, the deaths of his loved ones under the strangest circumstances, and heartbreaks that become the fuel he needs to create a new musical genre and pass into eternity as the one and only, incomparable King of Heartbreak.

Best Friends Forever (80×45)

The story of four college friends who believe that at 40 they have everything figured out, but suddenly see their lives fall apart. An “executive Barbie” discovers that her “perfect” marriage and career were a sham; a single mother finds no meaning in her life when her deaf daughter decides to study abroad; the happy wife of a “Prince Charming” discovers that the love of her life is a narcissist and stalker; and an eternal teenager faces a controversial pregnancy as an “older mother.” Together, they must pick up the pieces, rebuild their lives, and find happiness in the process.

The Mariachis Daughter (80×45)

ROSARIO GUERRERO is the new face of mariachi music, a powerful voice fighting to be heard in a world that has traditionally been male-dominated.
The stage of the ranchera bar PLAZA GARIBALDI is where Rosario declares her love in song to FRANCISCO LARA, a transgressive Mexican who breaks boundaries and fuses mariachi with other genres. The volcanic love between this couple unleashes a war between Francisco and “EL COLOSO”, a ranchera purist who lost Rosario in that same bar and is willing to fight to the death to get her back.
But beyond El Coloso, the future between Rosario and Francisco is in danger by the Mexican singer’s secret: he is a fugitive named EMILIANO SÁNCHEZ GALLARDO, accused of laundering money for the mafia and murdering a man, crimes for which he is wanted by INTERPOL and the mafia itself, as Emiliano struggles to prove his innocence and it becomes imperative to “silence” him.

 

Crimson Red (80×45)

Juana and Jorge are a young couple striving to make their innovative makeup venture, Crimson Red, succeed. In their search for better opportunities for the brand, they face professional temptations and long-buried family secrets that put their relationship to the test. Jorge is seduced by Valeria, leading to their separation, while Juana finds support in Marcelo. As their lives move forward on separate paths, destiny brings them back together, strengthening their love and inspiring a renewed commitment to be together once again.

RCN Estudios

We are a content generation company based in entertainment. We produce high quality audiovisual content for the national and international market. Our digital ecosystem has more than 13 million monthly users in our portals and more than 250 thousand users on mobile apps, which consume more than 60 million page views and more than 138 million views of our video content.

We also have 2 television channels in Colombia (RCN Nuestra Tele, RCN HD2) and 3 international channels (Nuestra Tele Internacional, RCN Novelas and NTN24). On social networks, more than 80 million people follow us and subscribe to our channels, so we have a reach, in Colombia, of approximately 37 million people per month with a coverage of 71% of the Colombian population.

Our trajectory of more than fifty years in the television industry, has established us as a benchmark in the production of great stories such as “Yo soy Betty, la fea”, “Café, con aroma de mujer”, “La viuda de la mafia”, “Hasta que la plata los separe”, “Los Reyes”, “Pura sangre”, “A corazón abierto” “Rosario Tijeras” and “Amor sincero” among many others.

RCN productions have reached more than 180 countries, we produce more than 3,600 hours of fictional content per year, and we have the capacity to simultaneously produce 5 series or telenovelas, 3 entertainment programs and 3 live interviews, as well as news and sports. We have one of the largest catalogs in the industry in Latin America, which exceeds 19 thousand hours.

At RCN we have 45 AVID editing rooms, 10 audio rooms, 5 mobile units with state-of-the-art equipment, which place the production company at the forefront of technology to produce content with the highest quality standards. We also have the invaluable legacy of the unpublished works of one of the greatest writers in Latin American television: Fernando Gaitán.

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Contacts

Luisa Fernanda Pérez

Lina Maria Waked

Maria Lucía Hernández Frieri