By: Valerie Milano Pasadena, CA (Hollywood Today) 4/26/11

 The latest “dramela”, (drama/novela), in the offing is “RPM Miami” from mun2. It is a 13-episode scripted drama series, half in Spanish, half in English. The story is set to include speed, love, danger and corruption – all of the necessary elements for a weekly dramela geared towards GenYLAs, (Generation Young Latino Americans).

Episode one, Homecoming, begins when a discharged Army Ranger returns home to Miami to discover his family has fallen on hard times and his father is missing. For Alejandro (Adrian Bellani) to find his father, he has to join life in the fast and furious lane with the underground street racers.

The bilingual soap, a first in television history should be very attractive to the 50 million Hispanics in this country. “Sometimes we feel like certain words are better in English or sometimes in Spanish.  So it flows because that’s a daily thing that actually a lot of people do, a lot of second, or third generation Latino Americans do this at home, and at work.  We just mix without even thinking.  So it is very organic.” Explained Fernanda Romero, who plays single mom, Luisa, who’s husband was killed in Iraq.

Bellani added “It’s very authentic to American Latinos living in the United States.   You’re going to see Cubans and Salvadorans and Venezuelans and Peruvians and we’re all going to be speaking Spanish, but you’re going to hear the different accents and the different dialects and stuff like that.  So it will be interesting.  It’s going to be a really great show, and it’s a great concept to be able to exploit all the Latinos living in the United States.”

Mun2 and Telemundo partnered up to produce “RPM”.  Alonso Galvez, producer and writer for Telemundo said, “Most important is that it is designed for the new multicultural American audience, especially the American-Latino and I guess anybody else that is bored with Rosetta Stone. This is a great relationship with our partners at mun2, and we hope that it will grow and that we will together be able to cater to the new emerging audience in the United States.”