El Rey Network
El Rey Network is a new 24-hour English-language television and digital network founded by maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez for everyone who loves action-packed and irreverent entertainment. Birthed from a different perspective, El Rey Network will be the first cable and digital network launched by a creative visionary whose body of film work has garnered diehard fans around the world that celebrate his rebel take on entertainment. Now for the first time on television, El Rey Network’s programming will reflect Robert Rodriguez’s unique personal style and taste, along with the contributions of his artistic collective of friends. Whether it's his new original-signature-dramas or favorite action, horror, grindhouse, sci-fi, or next-generation sports, the Network will be broadly entertaining and riveting for everyone who’s a renegade at heart.www.elreynetwork.com
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Oct 16, 2026
RicochetGUEST
And it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
RicochetGUEST
But yeah, all that, like the IP and all that stuff, the characters, like that's all owned by the El Rey Network or that's owned by them.
RicochetGUEST
Yeah.
RicochetGUEST
I would have to probably like buy the character out or something for him to return.
BrentHOST
I don't-
ChrisHOST
Man, every little bit, every little, little brick of stuff that worked throughout with Geo- with, with like people like George Romero and, um, what was his name? Uh, with uh, El Rey Network, uh-
BrentHOST
Oh, wow, shit, why did my mind just blank? Robert Rodriguez.
ChrisHOST
Robert Rodriguez led to, led to El Rey Network probably.
BrentHOST
[laughs]
ChrisHOST
All that ki- all that kinda, all that kinda stuff led to what El Rey Network was and should still be-
BrentHOST
What it was trying to do
ChrisHOST
...
Bryce ZabelHOST
He's got CBS, Fox, HBO, Bun and Murray.
Bryce ZabelHOST
He still has an active role at Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network.
Bryce ZabelHOST
And I just thought of this, Brent.
Bryce ZabelHOST
I met Dan when I did a pilot for him called ESPI.
Aaron FinkHOST
I'm pretty, I'm pretty sure that Lucha Underground was partially financed by Robert Rodriguez.
Aaron FinkHOST
Or at least because it was on the El Rey Network, like, he was involved in it somehow.
Aaron FinkHOST
Do you-
Bradley PalermoHOST
Interesting
Bradley PalermoHOST
Yeah, absolutely.
Aaron FinkHOST
I think.
Aaron FinkHOST
I'm gonna look it up while we're talking, but I feel like he had something to do with it other than it just being on the El Rey Network, which was his television station.
Aaron FinkHOST
Okay, I looked it up, and I was right.
John EscuderoHOST
Like-
Greg ThomasHOST
Maybe El Rey Network, you know?
John EscuderoHOST
Univision.
John EscuderoHOST
[laughs] Rest in peace.