Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, creator of Cuéntame, dies at 80 on the day TVE broadcasts the end of the series

Not only TVE is in mourning. All television mourns this Wednesday the death of Eduardo Ladrón de Guevaraone of the creators of Tell me how it happened. The screenwriter has died at the age of 80, and he did not do so on any given day: his goodbye comes the same day that La 1 offers the last chapter of the fiction, a product that has made history in the television career of this country, after 22 years on the grid and 400 episodes broadcast.

“We say goodbye to Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara (Madrid 1943-2023), who died today. He was one of the creators of ‘Cuéntame’, a series that ends its broadcast tonight. We appreciate his talent and his work in a long career as a screenwriter. Rest in peace,” the ALMA screenwriters union reported in a statement.

From fiction social networks they have also lamented the death of the filmmaker, whom they have defined as “one of the great Spanish screenwriters” and “soul” of the series. “A great professional and dear colleague, our story could not have been written without him. All our love goes to his family,” they expressed.

The screenwriter, also known for series such as Pharmacy open y The thieves go to the office, created together with Miguel Angel Bernardeu this fiction that is now coming to an end. Chapter number 413 of the series puts an end to a lifetime, almost one hundred years of the Alcántara family.

Beyond working in television, Ladrón de Guevara worked as a journalist in the newspapers Information, Townamong others, as well as collaborating with agencies. In theater he signed twenty works for which he has been awarded several times. His death closes a circle that will be eternally remembered in the history of television in this country. Ends Tell me and ends a life, the one that helped give birth to the series.

Goodbye to ‘Cuéntame’

Tell me how it happened says goodbye after 22 years of broadcasting on the La 1 grid and more than 400 episodes. To say goodbye to its “most emblematic and longest-running” fiction, the state network will offer a special night this Wednesday dedicated to the Alcántara, which will begin with the special Tell me how it waspresented by Imanol Arias y Ana Duatoand will end with the last episode of the legendary series.

Subsequently, the state network will broadcast two of the most emblematic episodes of fiction: The Return of the Fugitive, the first chapter of the series, and Touching Bottom, the 60th episode that held a record in screen share with 51% and 7 million of spectators. However, the delivery of the last episode will be marked by the return of one of the most beloved characters in fiction: Carlos. ‘The heir’ of the Alcántara family returns to his wife Karina after his departure to New York after thirteen years of unfinished business and an important and decisive conversation with his grandmother Herminia.