Breaking Bad
American crime drama television series
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| 2023 | A short film released as part of the Breaking Bad franchise, expanding the narrative universe of the original series. |
| 2023 | Variety ranked Breaking Bad as the fifth-greatest TV show of all time. |
| 2023 | Breaking Bad is ranked as the best TV series in the last 25 years by critics in a Rotten Tomatoes poll. |
| February 14 2023 | The Hankyoreh reports a South Korean remake of Breaking Bad is in development by production company JP E&M, planned for four seasons and initially scheduled to air in early 2024. |
| February 12 2023 | A commercial for PopCorners chips titled 'Breaking Good' aired during Super Bowl LVII, featuring Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Raymond Cruz reprising their Breaking Bad roles. The short film was directed by Vince Gilligan and filmed in a desert location near Lancaster, California. |
| 2022 | Giancarlo Esposito expressed ongoing interest in a potential spin-off series tentatively titled 'The Rise of Gus', which would explore the backstory of his character Gustavo Fring. |
| 2022 | Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training and Ethics Training with Kim Wexler win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. |
| 2022 | Madrigal Electromotive Security Training and Filmmaker Training are nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, but the Madrigal nomination was pulled due to episode length restrictions. |
| 2022 | Vince Gilligan gave an interview reflecting on the show's narrative perspective and acknowledging the unintended bias towards Walter White that may have influenced audience perceptions of Skyler. |
| 2022 | Rolling Stone again ranked Breaking Bad third on its list of 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. |
| 2022 | After Better Call Saul's finale, Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan were working on separate new projects. |
| 2022 | Better Call Saul Insider Podcast concludes after seven years of discussing the show's production, character insights, and episode details. |
| 2022 | Filmmaker Training web series is released as the final web series, which receives a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series. |
| August 2022 | Vince Gilligan publicly stated he does not plan to create more works in the Breaking Bad franchise, citing concerns about maintaining critical success. |
| August 15 2022 | Better Call Saul concludes its six-season run, completing the prequel and aftermath storyline of Saul Goodman's life. |
| August 8 2022 | Final episode of Talking Saul aired on AMC, concluding the six-episode run of the Better Call Saul companion talk show. |
| July 2022 | Vince Gilligan and Sony Television Pictures commissioned and donated a bronze statue of Walter and Jesse to the city of Albuquerque, which was installed at the Albuquerque Convention Center. |
| May 23 2022 | Slippin' Jimmy, a six-part animated web series produced by Starburns and written by Ariel Levine and Kathleen Williams-Foshee, is released on AMC+. Each episode is approximately 8-9 minutes long and styled after 1970s cartoons, paying homage to different movie genres. |
| April 2022 | CNBC Prime YouTube account released 'American Greed: James McGill', a ten-minute mockumentary short film about Better Call Saul characters Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler, written by Peter Gould's assistant Valerie Chu. |
| 2021 | Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training and Ethics Training with Kim Wexler win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. |
| 2021 | Empire ranked Breaking Bad at number two on their list of The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. BBC voted it the third-best TV series of the 21st century, as picked by 206 TV experts from around the world. |
| 2021 | Empire ranked Breaking Bad at number two on their list of The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. |
| 2021 | The BBC voted Breaking Bad the third-best TV series of the 21st century, as chosen by 206 TV experts worldwide. |
| March 2021 | Variety reports AMC is developing an animated spin-off series called Slippin' Jimmy, a prequel focusing on Jimmy and Chuck's younger years in Cicero, Illinois. |
| September 2020 | Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements mobile game was closed down after receiving lukewarm reviews. |
| July 9 2020 | The docuseries, hosted by Giancarlo Esposito, premiered on the AMC app and AMC.com, featuring episodes about con artists, hit men, drug operations, and a town catering to people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity. |
| June 2020 | AMC announced 'The Broken and the Bad', a six-part true crime docuseries inspired by Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, exploring real-world stories that mirror the fictional worlds of both shows. |
| February 17 2020 | AMC released the three-minute short film 'Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short' on its official YouTube account, coinciding with the television premiere of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. |
| February 16 2020 | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was broadcast on AMC, expanding its audience reach after the initial Netflix release. |
| 2019 | The cast recording of 'Faking Bad' was made available for physical sale at the official Breaking Bad Store located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
| 2019 | Forster appears posthumously in Better Call Saul, with the episode 'Magic Man' dedicated to his memory. |
| 2019 | Family Style, Inc. secured rights from Sony and with Vince Gilligan's approval to launch a Los Pollos Hermanos-branded chicken restaurant chain across California, Nevada, and Illinois, selling meals through Uber Eats in a three-year deal. |
| 2019 | Rob Gathercole created 'Faking Bad', a parody musical that condenses the entire plot of Breaking Bad into a one-act play, featuring a campy and satirical approach to the original series. |
| 2019 | Ethics Training with Kim Wexler web series is released, featuring Rhea Seehorn as Kim, with side-voiceovers from Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy and Patrick Fabian as Howard. The series wins a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. |
| 2019 | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was released as a sequel to the original series, continuing the story universe. |
| October 11 2019 | Robert Forster, who played Ed Galbraith, dies of brain cancer on the same day El Camino is released, marking his final acting appearance in the Breaking Bad franchise. |
| September 2019 | The Guardian ranked the show fifth on its list of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century. |
| June 6 2019 | Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements was officially released for iOS and Android mobile platforms, allowing players to build a drug empire with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman as central characters. |
| February 2019 | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was formally announced by the production team. |
| January 2019 | Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements mobile game was first announced by developers Plamee and FTX Games. |
| 2018 | Faking Bad, a parody musical based on the Breaking Bad franchise, is created. |
| 2018 | Anna Gunn reflected on the audience's reaction to Skyler, discussing broader societal expectations of women and the importance of challenging those perceptions. |
| 2018 | Vince Gilligan spoke at the cast reunion, expressing his surprise and confusion about the negative audience response to Skyler White, and defending both the character and Anna Gunn's performance. |
| 2018 | Breaking Bad cast reunion where Aaron Paul publicly defended Anna Gunn's portrayal of Skyler, expressing sympathy for the unfair treatment her character received from audiences. |
| 2018 | AMC releases Madrigal Electromotive Security Training with Mike Ehrmantraut, featuring Jonathan Banks as Mike, which received an initial Emmy nomination before being withdrawn. |
| 2017 | French editors Lucas Stoll and Gaylor Morestin created a fan edit titled 'Breaking Bad: The Movie', condensing the entire Breaking Bad series into a two-hour feature film and uploaded it to Vimeo after working on the project for approximately two years. |
| 2017 | AMC begins releasing web series as part of Better Call Saul, starting with Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training featuring Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring. |
| June 19 2017 | The short film 'No Picnic' was released during the Better Call Saul third season finale, featuring the Kettleman characters. The film depicts Craig Kettleman collecting roadside litter while serving a prison sentence, showing his family organizing a picnic nearby. |
| 2016 | Rolling Stone ranked Breaking Bad third on its list of 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. |
| February 2016 | AMC released a comic book titled 'Better Call Saul: Saul Goodman and the Justice Consortium in the Clutches of the Judgernaut!' in advance of the second season premiere of Better Call Saul. |
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