Sugar & Spice: New series is like a steamy ‘Dynasty’ — but with mojitos – (more on Cane)

“They’ve done everything they can to make it authentic, from hiring a dialect coach to ensure Spanish is spoken with a Havana accent to making hundreds of expensive color photocopies of Cuban tile to dress the set walls.

But, the producers of Cane — the new CBS series about a family of Cuban-exile sugar barons in South Florida — warn that their show is ultimately a drama, not a documentary.

”I hope Cubans like it. I hope they’re proud,” says Cane creator Cynthia Cidre, herself an exile from Little Havana. “I’m Cuban. But it has to appeal to the whole country, not just Miami.”

Cane — which debuted Tuesday on WFOR-CBS 4 — has stirred intense interest in South Florida since its May announcement. It’s the first prime time drama on a broadcast network about not just a Cuban family but a Latin family of any kind. And it’s coming to America’s top-rated network with an all-star cast that includes Jimmy Smits, Rita Moreno, Hector Elizondo and Nestor Carbonell.”

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