Mexican Sitcom Vecinos Has Now Outlasted Two of the Channels That Aired It

“Vecinos” has been on the air for two decades and change, and the numbers alone make the case. Created by Eugenio Derbez and based on the Spanish series “Aquí no hay quien viva,” the Mexican comedy premiered on Las Estrellas on July 10, 2005, and ran 21 seasons and 339 episodes, ending March 29, 2026. It holds an audience score of 8.1 out of 10 on TMDB across 1,093 votes.

German Valdez and the neighbors of the barrio

The premise is the draw. “Vecinos” follows everyday life in Mexican barrios, where anything can be found. Each episode puts the neighbors in each other’s way, and they deal with problems both real and imagined — ghosts, treasures, ripoffs, fights. The show never asks for more than that, and it never needs to.

Eduardo España plays German Valdez. Mayrín Villanueva is Silvia Olvera de San Román. Ana Bertha Espín plays Lorena Ruiz de Rios, with Moisés Suárez as Arturo López, Macaria as Magdalena Pérez de López and Pablo Valentín as Pedro Medina.

The jealous housewife and the spinster

The show’s real engine is its stock figures. The series portrays the jealous housewife, the spinster, the strange family, and the neighbors who collide with all of them. Comedy and family and kids, per its own billing — a mix that usually means a show is for nobody. Here it means the show is for everybody.

21 seasons, three networks

“Vecinos” moved across Distrito Comedia, Blim and Las Estrellas. That kind of network-hopping usually signals a show being quietly buried. “Vecinos” kept getting renewed instead, which tells you the audience followed it.

The renewal record is the part worth weighing. The series was renewed for a sixteenth and seventeenth season, and the seventeenth premiered on July 14, 2024. In August 2024 it was renewed for two more seasons. The eighteenth premiered on February 23, 2025. The nineteenth followed on May 11, 2025. The twentieth premiered on March 29, 2026.

What the long run actually proves

Here is what matters, ranked:

1. The cast. España, Villanueva, Espín, Suárez, Macaria and Valentín stayed the recognizable faces of a show that outlasted its own network homes.
2. The format. A barrio where anything can be found is a premise that resets every week, which is why it survived 339 episodes.
3. The score. An 8.1 from 1,093 voters is not a verdict from critics. It is a verdict from people who kept watching.

Where the show sits

“Vecinos” is not a prestige comedy and never pretended to be. It is a neighborhood show about neighbors, built on a Spanish format and remade for a Mexican one, and it ran long enough to become the thing it was describing.

The 8.1 is fair. Not generous, not stingy. A show that reaches 21 seasons has already answered the only question that matters — whether anyone wanted it back. They did, repeatedly, across three networks and two decades. That is a harder trick than any single great episode.

Score: 8.1 of 10.

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