AMC 'Better Call Saul' Premiere Date February 8, 2014, With Episode 2 the Following Night
"Better Call Saul," the prequel to AMC's popular television series "Breaking Bad," now has an official release date and a teaser trailer accompanying it. The new series is scheduled to make its pilot episode premiere on Feb. 8 next year with the second episode showing the following night. Afterwards, new episodes will air every Monday.
AMC president Charlie Collier has confirmed that the prequel will be about the lawyer's pre-Goodman life as Jimmy McGill.
"This February, during AMC's first ever two-night series premiere event, we're going to introduce Jimmy McGill to the world. Known to Breaking Bad fans as Saul Goodman, viewers will soon discover Saul wasn't always Albuquerque's top criminal lawyer," Collier said.
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The teaser video is titled "Tingle Fingers " which references the vibrating bed at the end. The 30-second teaser shows a ravaged motel room with a borken TV, heals and clothing laid scattered on the floor, a cigar smoking in an ashtray, a glass of liquor, some white powder, and a credit card on a mirror.
Bob Odenkirk will reprise his role as Saul Goodman, where the show will be set in the early 2000s, years before Walter White started cooking meth. "Breaking Bad" showrunner Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould will also helm "Better Call Saul."
Odenkirk will be introduced into the show as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer. The show will then chronicle his transformation into Saul Goodman.
"It was always in Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould's laps to create it, want to do it and have a vision for it. And I came along as a lucky actor. It's like somebody telling you, 'I think you might've won the lottery,'" Odenkirk said during a behind-the-scenes look of the show.
