Better Call Saul: Season Five Renewal for AMC Breaking Bad Prequel

Is life breaking good for Saul Goodman? AMC has renewed its Better Call Saul TV show for a fifth season. The cable network announced the news at this weekend’s TCA Summer Press Tour. The early renewal comes a little more than a week ahead of the Better Call Saul season four premiere, on Monday, August 6, 2018 at 9:00pm ET/PT. Check out the (only slightly risqué) announcement photo, below.

A Breaking Bad prequel and dark AMC comedy drama, Better Call Saul is set before Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) became Walter White’s lawyer. The cast also includes Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando, and Giancarlo Esposito. In the early 2000s, Saul is still down-on-his-luck Jimmy McGill. As he moves toward the criminal world, Jimmy is putting everything at risk.

Better Call Saul Renewed for Season Five on AMC

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All told, during the TCAs, AMC announced the following TV show renewals: Better Call Saul season five; Fear the Walking Dead season five; McMafia season two. Learn more from the press release.

07/28/2018

AMC RENEWS POPULAR ORIGINAL SERIES “BETTER CALL SAUL,” “FEAR THE WALKING DEAD” AND “MCMAFIA”

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – July 28, 2018 – AMC announced today from the Television Critics’ Association (TCA) Press Tour that it has renewed a slate of popular series including “Better Call Saul” and “Fear The Walking Dead” for their fifth seasons and “McMafia” for its second season.

“In an environment where viewer choice is almost unlimited, the success of these shows is especially meaningful, with characters and stories that our viewers connect with and return to season after season,” said David Madden, president of original programming for AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “It’s a privilege to continue collaborating with and sharing the vision of the talented creatives behind these series, and we’re excited to start exploring the next chapter in the lives of these unique and complex characters.”

“Better Call Saul’s” pick-up comes just ahead of its highly-anticipated season four premiere on Monday, August 6th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Season three of the critically acclaimed series ranked as the #5 cable drama among adults 25-54. Executive produced by Peter Gould, Vince Gilligan, Mark Johnson, Melissa Bernstein, Thomas Schnauz and Gennifer Hutchison, “Better Call Saul”. recently garnered a 2018 Peabody Award, and, over three seasons, has earned 23 Emmy® Award nominations, three Golden Globe® Award nominations, two Writers Guild Awards, three Critics’ Choice Awards, a Television Critics Association Award and two AFI Awards for “TV Programs of the Year,” among many other Guild nominations. A Sony Pictures Television and AMC Studios co-production and created by Gilligan and Gould, the series stars Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando and Giancarlo Esposito.

“Fear the Walking Dead” is being renewed ahead of the premiere of the second half of season four.  The series is the #3 cable drama to date among adults 25-54 and 18-49 and has shown strong double-digit ratings growth among adults 25-54 in the first half of its fourth season compared to the second half of season three. “Fear the Walking Dead” is executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, as well as Robert Kirkman, David Alpert, Gale Anne Hurd and Greg Nicotero, and produced by AMC Studios. The series stars Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo, Danay Garcia, Garret Dillahunt, Maggie Grace and Jenna Elfman.

A second season of “McMafia” is being ordered. The global organized crime thriller that continues to echo real-world headlines will air on AMC, AMC Premiere and streaming service Sundance Now. The first season of the series is currently available on AMC Premiere, an upgrade option for Xfinity and YouTube TV customers. “McMafia” was created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins and inspired by Misha Glenny’s best-selling book of the same name about the “franchizing” of the mafia as it spread globally. “McMafia” is co-produced by the BBC, AMC and Cuba Pictures, in association with Twickenham Studios, and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide.

AMC recently announced that it has also renewed anthology series “The Terror” for season two. The next iteration of “The Terror” will be set during World War II and center on an uncanny specter that menaces a Japanese-American community from its home in Southern California to the internment camps to the war in the Pacific. Season two of “The Terror” is co-created and executive produced by Alexander Woo, who also serves as showrunner, and Max Borenstein, from an idea by Borenstein. The series is an AMC Studios production produced by Scott Free, Emjag Productions and Entertainment 360. “The Terror” is also executive produced by Ridley Scott, Dan Simmons, David W. Zucker, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert and Guymon Casady.

In addition to “The Terror,” AMC has also recently greenlit a new series, “NOS4A2,” based on the novel of the same name. Both “The Terror” and “NOS4A2” are slated to go into production in the coming months.

What do you think? Are you a fan of the Better Call Saul TV series? Do you plan to tune in for seasons four and five on AMC? Let us know, below.