"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…

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…

In Season 3 of AMC's Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk's "Slippin'" Jimmy McGill continues burning his bridges—as his broken brother Chuck (Michael McKean) self-immolates—setting the Albuquerque attorney further down his crooked, predestined path. He is now on steady course to becoming the sleazily cunning…

Updated with video: “We’re breaking story and we’re in episode two-ish,” revealed Emmy-nominated writer-producer Gordon Smith tonight about the status of season 4 for Better Call Saul.  Smith, who received his second Emmy nomination for the AMC/Sony TV series this year sat down with Deadline Senior Editor Dominic…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Better Call Saul Season 3 finale. "He felt he was infallible, and he felt if he was questioned or if he was confronted he knew that he knew, or he felt, that he had moral right on his side, and he felt that he could do no wrong — that’s a terrible place to be,"…

Walter White himself — Bryan Cranston — paid a surprise visit to the Better Call Saul panel at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys on Sunday. “I just couldn’t help myself,” he said. “Know where your wallet is right now,” quipped cast member Jonathan Banks as Cranston greeted his old crew on the eve of Saul‘s Season 3…

It could so easily have gone drastically wrong, and for a minute it felt like it might. When Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould announced they were looking to spin Breaking Bad's zany lawyer Saul Goodman off into his own half-hour sitcom, none of the precedent set by Bad could settle fan fears that it was a big mistake…

After a record-breaking and Emmy-nominated debut season last year, Better Call Saul is back in the saddle February 15 for Season 2. It is, as my video review above says, a richer ride for the Breaking Bad prequel. For one thing, having established the setup and met the expectations of Bob Odenkirk's Jimmy McGill — the…

"Success can paralyze you way more than failure, in my opinion," Vince Gilligan confesses while sitting in his Glendale office surrounded by Better Call Saul fan art. Fellow BCS executive producer Peter Gould and the show's star Bob Odenkirk are sitting nearby. "I keep thinking of that old analogy that you've got to…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of last night's Better Call Saul Season 1 finale. While the first cycle of Better Call Saul took us back six years before the events of Breaking Bad, the spinoff has meticulously depicted the beginnings of the transformation of the struggling Jimmy McGill into the…

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. When a comedy writer moderates a WGA panel of his peers, the audience is bound to get more jokes than straight answers. That’s what happened tonight at this year's ‘Primetime Sublime’ panel featuring Emmy-nominated writers moderated by The Simpsons' Mike Scully. <a href="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/small_veena_sud_imagem110914062609.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has teamed with James Gandolfini for Big Dead Place, a drama based on Nicholas Johnson’s memoir about his stint working for the U.S. Antarctic Program. Gandolfini is executive producing the project, which is being developed as a starring vehicle for him. Breaking Bad writer-producer Peter Gould has been…