What Eric Van Wagenen said about #LuchaUnderground season 2 on Austin's podcast

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El Rey has absolutely wants us back. They've given us an offer on the table, they want us back 40 more episodes, 'we'd love to have you start airing in October. We want you back.' Now, what we're trying to do as an organization, is we're trying to maintain this certain level of production value. There's the amount of money El Rey is giving us, and then there's this amount of money that we need to spend in order to keep the same level of quality that we've established. [...] It's a high production value, we put a lot of emphasis on the production value, we don't cut any corner. So now, what we are doing is, myself and the other El Rey executives and the investors and Mark Burnett and the people who work at the United Artist Media group - there is a combined effort to bridge that gap, between the money El Rey is giving us and the money we need. All options are on the table, whether that's Netflix, iTunes, a secondary broadcast partner, or DVD sales, merchandise, you name it, everything’s on the table. The money guys are trying to close that gap, and once we have that gap closed, we're announcing.

Austin asked who's the ultimate decision maker.

"This is a partnership, Lucha Underground is a partnership. There are about four key players, they all have to be on the same page at the same time. That's not always easy, they're powerful guys, they're used to having their way, they're important people in television in both United States and Mexico. As part of the United Artists Media group, which is a massive massive company, they handle the foreign sales, they handle the product integrations. I'm the guy who says - this company wants to come in, but you have to get rid of the man versus women matches, you have to get rid of the blood, you can't have any bad language, and I'm the guy who says 'let's fight for our differences, let's not fall victim to keeping it G rated, let's make an edgy product for adults.'"

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