When it come to new series, spinoffs take a proven winner and expand on it. Think 'Walking Dead,' 'Star Trek' and the 'Chicago' series trio.
AMC Networks President Sarah Barnett on “The Walking Dead,” “Killing Eve” and the new slate she’s bringing to AMC, BBC America, Sundance and IFC.” executive producers Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan discovered this when trying to spin “Saul” from “Bad.”
“There was a throwaway line in ‘Breaking Bad,’ where Saul said as he was about to leave New Mexico, that the best case scenario for him was he’d be running a Cinnabon in a month,” recalls Gould. When “Saul” premiered in 2015, that’s exactly where they placed their protagonist: at a Cinnabon. “The primal question is, ‘What’s in his past that got him here, and what can we use that got him here?’” says Gilligan. “In the writers room, we use this expression: building on bedrock. A universe is going to grow by definition, but I don’t like growing it by adding places and things willy-nilly.”“Better Call Saul” co-creator Peter Gould discusses the pressure of living up to the legacy of “Breaking Bad” at the Envelope Live.
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