Turning yesterday’s headlines into today’s docudramas, NBC...
Turning yesterday’s headlines into today’s docudramas, NBC and ABC bring a pair of fact-based stories to the small screen this week.
NBC presents “Drug Wars: The Camarena Story,” a three-part miniseries about the death of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique (Kiki) Camarena airing from 9 to 11 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday on Channels 4, 36 and 39.
“Drug Wars” tells of Camarena (played by Steven Bauer), who in 1985 was tortured for information and murdered by the drug lords he was investigating.
Elizabeth Pena (on the cover with Bauer) co-stars as Camarena’s wife.
Competing against Part 2 of “Drug Wars” at 9 p.m. Monday (Channels 7, 3, 10 and 42) is “Rock Hudson,” an ABC biography focusing on the actor who died of AIDS in 1985.
Thomas Ian Griffith portrays Hudson in the two-hour film. The supporting cast includes Andrew Robinson as Hudson’s agent Henry Willson; Diane Ladd as his mother, Kay Fitzgerald, and William R. Moses as Marc Christian, the actor’s companion during the last few years of his life.
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