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Four years and four Emmy nominations into playing Better Call Saul's good-hearted lawyer Jimmy McGill, Bob Odenkirk is currently deep into Season 5, with McGill continuing his metamorphosis into the Saul Goodman we know from Breaking Bad. Despite playing Goodman for several years, Odenkirk says his deep work with the…

When opportunity calls you better be ready to answer. Bob Odenkirk was more than ready back in 2009 when he was called on to portray Saul Goodman, the criminal attorney (in more ways than one) who became one of the most memorable Breaking Bad characters. Odenkirk dialed in to the character’s despicable charms so well…

Let's be honest, the Emmy Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie category is already the winner’s circle before a single nomination is announced July 16. So join us today on Deadline's TV Talk podcast for the true plethora of riches in the category. Just say the names: Michelle Williams in FX’s Fosse/Verdon, Amy…

We take on the Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy race in this week’s edition of Deadline’s TV Talk podcast. One thing we agree on for sure: there will not be a repeat of the outcome last year, when Matthew Rhys finally won for The Americans in its sixth and final season. Now, that doesn’t mean we won’t have a repeat…

It was 10 years ago this month that Bob Odenkirk answered his first call as Saul Goodman. It was 2009 when the actor introduced the slippery con-man counselor in the sublime second season of Breaking Bad and then, in 2015, the prequel spinoff Better Call Saul dialed up a backstory for the character. At Deadline’s The C…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the season 4 finale of Better Call Saul. There are many moving parts to Better Call Saul, with the main lingering question being: “How did Jimmy McGill become Saul Goodman?” The season 4 finale addresses this and continues to clear the path for the inevitable…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk is set for Sony Pictures’ Little Women, the remake which is being written and directed by Greta Gerwig. The previously announced cast includes Meryl Streep, Timothee Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza…

UPDATED with Bob Odenkirk stunt. AMC announced today at the TCA Summer Press Tour that Better Call Saul has been set for season 5. The announcement comes ahead of its season 4 premiere and its recent appearance at San Diego Comic-Con. Better Call Saul joins Fear the Walking Dead and McMafia in AMC’s slate of renewed…

"This is the best season yet," Vince Gilligan told Comic-Con today of Better Call Saul's fourth season that starts next month. "The overlap between Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad gets closer and closer," added the creator of the Bryan Cranston-Aaron Paul Emmy winner and co-creator of its prequel of sorts, driving…

AMC has its summer premiere dates for Season 4 of Better Call Saul and its new series Lodge 49. The cable net today set a 9 PM August 6 premiere date for its Emmy-nominated Breaking Bad spinoff, to be followed at 10 PM by the launch of its lighthearted “modern fable” starring Wyatt Russell and Brent Jennings. Check…

EXCLUSIVE: Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk, whose performance in Fox’s The Post has been well-received, is teaming with STXfilms and the producers behind Atomic Blonde and the John Wick films to develop, produce, and star in the action thriller Nobody. In what has become something of a signature for Odenkirk…

One of the most extraordinary, defining figures in television—particularly over the last decade—two-time Emmy winner Vince Gilligan is back in the race this year for his directing of Better Call Saul. Driven on through Breaking Bad and its subsequent prequel series by a passionate love affair with visual storytelling…