Ben Leuner/AMC(NEW YORK) — If you were a fan of Breaking Bad, you better tune in to AMC this Sunday night.
That’s when the long-awaited Breaking Bad spin-off, Better Call Saul, will premiere. Bob Odenkirk reprises his role of Saul Goodman, the entertaining but highly-unethical lawyer who worked with Bryan Cranston’s meth-dealing character, Walter White.
Better Call Saul is set six years before Saul began representing Walter; he’s actually known as Jimmy McGill here. The show will follow Jimmy as he eventually becomes Saul, the shyster fans grew to love on Breaking Bad.
While Cranston and Aaron Paul, who played Walter’s sidekick Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad, are not expected to appear on the spin-off — at least not during season one — Jonathan Banks is back as the fixer Mike Ehrmantraut.
Series creator Vince Gilligan recently told reporters he’s “super-proud” of how the show has turned out, though he conceded, “I don’t think I really knew that until the writing was done and we were really several months into the editing.”
Better Call Saul will debut over the course of two nights, Sunday and Monday at 10 p.m. Eastern time on AMC.
Its 9 p.m. Eastern time lead-in on Sunday night will be The Walking Dead, which resumes its fifth season after a two-month hiatus. The kick-off appears to take place just after Beth’s death, and has Rick and the gang contemplating traveling to a safe haven Noah and Beth planned to escape to before her death.
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