Como dice el dicho

Como dice el dicho
Genre	Drama
Created by	Vittoria Zarattini José Antonio Olvera
Starring	Sergio Corona Héctor Sandarti Brisa Carrillo Benny Emmanuel Fernanda Sasse
Opening theme	Como dice el dicho by Mané de la Parra
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of seasons	6[1]
No. of episodes	354 (aired)
Production
Producer(s)	Genoveva Martínez
Location(s)	Mexico City, Mexico
Running time	40-44 minutes (length varies)
Production company(s)	Televisa
Distributor	Televisa
Release
Original network	Canal de las Estrellas
Picture format	480i SDTV 1080i HDTV
Original release	February 1, 2011 – present
External links
Website

Como dice el dicho (translation: As the saying goes)^[2] is a Mexican anthology drama series produced by Genovena Martínez for Televisa. The series covers many stories where a saying is selected and applied to real life situations.^[2]

The series covers current issues such as family violence, economic crisis, personal growth, dignity of women, homosexuality, drug addiction.

The series debuted on February 1, 2011 and currently airs Monday thru Friday at 3:30pm on Canal de las Estrellas.^[1][3]

In the United States the series currently airs on Univision weekdays at 11am/10c and weekends usually at 4pm/3c. On Galavisión it airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3pm/2c, an episode airs Saturday nights at 7pm/6c.^[4]

Plot

The series is set in Mexico City, mostly at a coffee shop named "El Dicho" owned by Don Tomás, where he is helped by his granddaughter Isabel (Seasons 1–4) and his employees Poncho (Seasons 1–5) and Marieta (Season 4–present).^[5] Episodes usually center around the customers, who most of the time are dealing with a problem.^[5] Throughout the episode a saying is written in one of the white walls of the coffee shop, either by Don Tomás, one of his employees or by a customer.^[6] The saying that is written is usually describing the situation of what is happening in the particular moment it is written.^[6]

Cast

Main cast

• Sergio Corona as Tomás León (Season 1–present)
• Héctor Sandarti as Ramón León (Recurring Seasons 1–4; Main Season 6–present)^[7]
• Brisa Carrillo as Marieta (Season 4–present)^[8]
• Benny Emmanuel as Pato (Season 5–present)^[9]
• Fernanda Sasse as Lupita (Season 6–present)^[1]

Former cast

• Wendy González as Isabel León (Seasons 1–4)^[10]
• Alan Slim as Miguel (Season 4)^[8]
• Michael Ronda as Poncho (Recurring Seasons 1 and 5; Main Season 2–4)^[11]
• Mario Bautista as Mario (Recurring Season 5)^[9]

Guest cast

Since the show is an anthology series, guest stars who appear in multiple episodes of the series rarely play the same character more than once. Some actors who have guest starred in the series are Luz María Aguilar, Fernando Allende, Karla Álvarez, Carmen Aub, Mónica Ayos, Juan Carlos Barreto, Mané de la Parra, Eric del Castillo, Sofía Castro, Blue Demon Jr., Alberto Estrella, Maribel Guardia, Lupita Jones, Julissa, Manuel Landeta, Ignacio López Tarso, Daniela Luján, Malillany Marín, Silvia Mariscal, Sergio Mayer, Lucía Méndez, Evita Muñoz, Patricia Navidad, Víctor Noriega, Nailea Norvind, Danna Paola, Sylvia Pasquel, Esmeralda Pimentel, Ana Patricia Rojo, Nora Salinas, Mónika Sánchez, Tiare Scanda, Ninón Sevilla, Héctor Suárez Gomís, Arleth Terán and Manuel Valdés.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2011)

Season 2 (2012)

Production

Filming

Unlike many Televisa productions, Como dice el dicho is filmed on location in various parts of Mexico City. Six episodes are shot per week, two episodes are filmed simultaneously.^[12] The coffee shop scenes in Season 1 and the first episodes of Season 2 were filmed in the colonia Condesa in the borough of Cuauhtémoc.^[13] Since Season 2 coffee shop scenes are filmed in the colonia Anzures in the borough of Miguel Hidalgo.^[14][15] The crew usually films at the coffee shop once or twice a week.^[12] The first two episodes of the fourth season were filmed in Zacatlán, Puebla, which was the first time the series filmed episodes outside of Mexico City.^[16] The first two episodes of the fifth season were filmed in ultra-high-definition 4K resolution.^[17]

Music

The series' original theme song is called Como dice el dicho and is performed by Mexican singer Mané de la Parra, the version performed by de la Parra was used for Seasons 1 and 3.^[18] The same theme song was used for Season 2 but was performed by singer Jass Reyes. For Season 4 a new song performed by Marco Di Mauro is being used as the show's theme, the song is also called Como dice el dicho.^[19] For Season 5 the original theme song returned and was performed by Mané de la Parra and Margarita Vargas.^[20]

Awards and nominations

International airings

Country	Network(s)	Ref
Mexico	Canal de las Estrellas	[23]
Canada	Univision Canada	[24]
Chile	La Red	[25]
Colombia	RCN TV	[26]
Costa Rica	Repretel 6	[27]
Dominican Republic	Telemicro	[28]
Ecuador	Gama TV	[29]
Guatemala	Televisiete	[30]
Honduras	Telecadena 7 y 4	[31]
Panama	RPC-TV	[32]
Paraguay	LaTele	[33]
Peru	América Televisión	[34]
Puerto Rico	Univision Puerto Rico	[35]
United States	Galavisión, Univision	[36]
Venezuela	Venevisión	[37]

References

External links

• Official site
• Como dice el dicho at the Internet Movie Database
• Location of Coffee Shop on Google Street View