Breaking Bad: Better Call Saul Spinoff Greenlit

AMC and Sony Television have reached a licensing agreement on Better Call Saul, the tentative title on the Breaking Bad spinoff set to follow lawyer Saul Goodman. While the project has yet to officially be ordered to series, reportedly due to final negotiations between Sony and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, and star Bob Odenkirk, it is said to be a one-hour series set before the events of Breaking Bad and will tell the story of how Saul became who he was and the man he was before he became Walter White s attorney. Better Call Saul always had a good chance of getting on the air, considering the popularity of the character and AMC s desire to continue doing business with Vince Gilligan, but once Breaking Bad shattered its ratings records for the final half of its fifth season, it was a guaranteed pickup, especially considering the cancellation of The Killing, underwhelming ratings for Low Winter Sun, and the impending departure of Mad Men. However, whether the sh

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