‘Cuéntame’ will end forever on TVE with a final season: from the fall of Felipe González to the absolute majority of Aznar

Tell me how it happened It will end forever on TVE after 22 years on the air with a final short season that will serve to say goodbye to the Alcántara family, the family headed by Imanol Arias and Ana Duato.

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After months of uncertainty, the public channel has given the green light to the hiring of a final batch of seven episodes that will cover the period between 1994 and 2001, precisely the year the series began on La 1. In this way, Tell me He will experience the end of the mandate of Felipe González, the arrival at Moncloa of José María Aznar and his victory with an absolute majority in his second legislature. It will also narrate the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, the weddings of the infantas Elena and Cristina, the deaths of Lola and Antonio Flores, the feared 2000 effect that threatened to paralyze the planet or the attack on the Twin Towers in New York.

Each of the seven episodes of the series starring Imanol Arias and Ana Duato, who are awaiting trial for the Nummaria Casewill be dedicated to one of the central characters of Tell me how it happened: Mercedes, Antonio, Inés, Toni, Carlos, María and Herminia. “We are happy with the news. We are now beginning to write the plots that will begin to be shot in a few months. There will be seven chapters with a lot of crumbs,” explains Jacobo Delgado, script coordinator for the new season, and the dean scriptwriter of the series. , who will write the next batch with Sonia Sánchez and Manu Dios.

The last fictional chapter broadcast to date, ‘A good person’, left viewers in September 1994 with a heavy heart and unresolved plots for the future of Oriol, the skinhead grandson of Antonio and Mercedes. According to Delgado, “the new season will leave no question unanswered and will be ambitious in terms of plots and production values.”