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"I'm just making an argument to make this fascinating to our listeners here," jokes our Awards Columnist today on Deadline's TV Talk podcast. With TV Academy members casting their ballots for nominations as we speak, Pete Hammond and Deadline’s Chief TV Critic Dominic Patten want to make everyone's day a little bit…

Since its 2015 premiere, the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul has matched the original crime drama's level of acclaim. The AMC and Sony Pictures Television series’ focus on the eponymous shady attorney played by Bob Odenkirk has earned the series 39 Emmy nominations. The sixth and final season had its…

Emmy voting started Thursday, and for our penultimate TV Talk podcast of this stage of the season, we have some names for you to consider. Euphoria's Zendaya, Dopesick's Michael Keaton, Hacks‘ Jean Smart and Paul W. Downs, Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae, the Succession gang, Grace & Frankie's Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Thi…

SPOILER ALERT:  This article contains details of tonight’s Better Call Saul 6A finale.  EXCLUSIVE: "I mean, we lived together for the majority of the season, and he is absolutely my big brother." Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn says of co-star Patrick Fabian after his Howard Hamlin character met a sudden end in…

Better Call Saul captured the top spot on a sleepy week, collecting 821 million minutes of viewing for its first five seasons on Netflix. Along with the rankings for the week of April 18 to 24, Nielsen also released the April edition of The Gauge, its monthly look at overall viewing via TV sets. Helped by an upswing…

Paced by the April premiere of Better Call Saul‘s new season on AMC, catch-up viewing of the show’s first five seasons propelled the show to No. 2 on Nielsen’s streaming chart for April 4 to 10. The Breaking Bad spinoff’s 50 episodes on Netflix generated 915 million minutes of streaming — not nearly the 1.6 billion of…

The 2022 Tribeca Festival announced its lineup of world premieres of new and returning television including ESPN's The Captain, about iconic New York Yankee Derek Jeter and Amazon Prime Video's A League of Their Own, inspired by the 1992 film, with Abbi Jacobson. The fest, which unspools June 8-19, announced its film s…

During today's Deadline Contenders TV panel, Better Call Saul star Jonathan Banks jokingly took a swipe at Bryan Cranston about him potentially reprising his role as Walter White. It's now official: Cranston and Aaron Paul, who played Jesse Pinkman in Better Call Saul predecessor Breaking Bad, will be back. Contenders…

“Everyone evolves, I don’t evolve,” snarked Jonathan Banks today at Deadline’s Contenders TV about his character, ex-cop Mike Ehrmantraut between Breaking Bad and spinoff Better Call Saul.  Then turning to the star on the latter show, Bob Odenkirk, Banks exclaimed, “I’ve been doing this professionally for 53 years and…

After playing the gravitas of slick, moral-shifting attorney Saul Goodman on AMC’s 39-time Emmy nominee Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk, is — to use a line from one of his Mr. Show sketches — ready “to blow up the moon” as he pivots back to his comedy roots. “We are going to blow up the moon, exactly,” beamed Odenkirk…

There will be no more meth-making in the middle of the desert, at least for now. That essentially was the word from Better Call Saul co-creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould at the show’s Season 6 premiere Thursday night in Hollywood. The final season premieres April 18 on AMC. Spring Premiere Dates For New & Returni…

New Mexico's government has allocated $40 million in funding for the establishment of a new film, TV and digital academy in Albuquerque dubbed the Next Generation Media Academy. The funding, which New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law March 9, will cover equipment and material costs to train up New…