YES That’s Gus from Breaking Bad in Trading Places!

JULY 15TH!

AMC announced today its summer programming slate, including the highly anticipated premiere of the first part of Breaking Bad’s final season on Sun., Jul. 15 at 10/9c. The final season of the Emmy® Award-winning and critically acclaimed drama, produced by Sony Pictures Television, consists of 16 episodes, with the first eight episodes beginning July 15th and culminating with the series’ final eight episodes next summer 2013.

Over four seasons, Breaking Bad has garnered a total of six Emmys® wins; a Peabody Award; it has been named to the American Film Institute’s (AFI) list of the “Top 10 Programs of the Year” (2008, 2010, 2011); and been heralded as one of the best TV dramas on television. Filmed on location in Albuquerque, NM, the series stars 2008, 2009 and 2010’s Emmy® Award winner for Outstanding Lead Actor Bryan Cranston; 2010 Emmy® winner for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Aaron Paul; Anna Gunn; Dean Norris; Betsy Brandt; RJ Mitte; Bob Odenkirk; and Jonathan Banks. Breaking Bad is produced by High Bridge and Gran Via Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television for AMC. Breaking Bad Season 4 will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on June 5.

Watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul on set in Albuquerque.

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Breaking Bad Season 5 Tease

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It’s simple chaos.

30 Rock (NBC) – LIKELY RENEWAL: Almost certainly back for Season 7, but that could be its final.

2 Broke Girls (CBS) – RENEWED

Adventure Time (Cartoon Network) – LIKELY RENEWAL: Too big of a hit not to renew, but Season 4 just started.

Alcatraz (Fox) – ON THE BUBBLE: There’s an outside chance this gets renewed.

Allen Gregory (Fox) – CANCELED

Alphas (Syfy) – RENEWED: Season 2 will air this summer.

American Dad (Fox) – RENEWED through the 2012-2013 TV season.

American Horror Story (FX) -RENEWED: Season 2 is expected to premiere in October.

Archer (FX) – RENEWED for Season 4.

Awake (NBC) – LIKELY CANCELLATION: The Kyle Killen drama only stands a chance if NBC wants to fish for award, because the ratings just aren’t where they need to be.

Beavis and Butt-head (MTV) – ON THE BUBBLE: Did well in its return, but is still up in the air.

Being Human(Syfy) – RENEWED for Season 3.

Being Human UK (BBC) – RENEWED for Season 5.

The Big Bang Theory (CBS) – RENEWED through the 2012-2013 TV season.

Boardwalk Empire (HBO) – RENEWED for Season 3.

Bob’s Burgers (Fox) – ON THE BUBBLE: We’re hoping for a third season.

Bones (Fox) – RENEWED for Season 8.

Breaking Bad (AMC) – RENEWED: There are 16 episodes left, and they’ll likely be split into two seasons of eight episodes each.

Californication (Showtime) – RENEWED for Season 6.

Castle (ABC) – LIKELY RENEWAL: Should be back for Season 5.

Charlie’s Angels (ABC) -CANCELED: Seven of eight episodes aired on ABC, but that last one may never be seen by the likes of TV viewers.

Chuck (NBC) CANCELED/ENDING: Finished its fifth and final season in January.

The Cleveland Show (Fox) – RENEWED through the 2012-2013 season.

Community (NBC) – ON THE BUBBLE: This forecast changes by the week, but the show is currently winning the 18-34 demo on Thursdays, so we’re optimistic.

Conan (TBS)– RENEWED through 2014.

CSI (CBS) – RENEWED

CSI: Miami (CBS) – ON THE BUBBLE: Like a confused college co-ed, this could… go either way. Yeahhhhhhhh!

CSI: New York (CBS) – ON THE BUBBLE: Of all the CSI shows, this one is in the most danger, by far.   

Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) – ON THE BUBBLE: As always, it’s up to Larry.

Dexter  (Showtime) – RENEWED through Season 8. Season 7 starts in September.

Don’t Trust the B—— in Apartment 23 (ABC) – ON THE BUBBLE: Too early to tell.

Eastbound and Down (HBO) – CANCELED/ENDING: Just finished its third and final season.

Eureka (Syfy) – CANCELED/ENDING: The final season is currently airing.

Face Off (Syfy) – RENEWED for Season 3.

Falling Skies (TNT) – RENEWED: Season 2 premieres June 17, 2012.

Family Guy (Fox) – RENEWED through the 2012-2013 TV season.

The Finder (Fox) – LIKELY CANCELLATION: The Bones spin-off just hasn’t found an audience.

The Firm (NBC) – CANCELED: NBC has been burning off remaining episodes on Saturdays.

Fringe (Fox) – ON THE BUBBLE: It could return for a shortened final season if Fox is nice.

Futurama (Comedy Central) – RENEWED

Game of Thrones (HBO) -LIKELY RENEWAL: As certain as Joffrey is a jerk.

Glee (Fox) -RENEWED

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) -LIKELY RENEWAL: It’s just waiting for the paperwork.

Grimm (NBC) -RENEWED for the 2012-13 season.

Haven (Syfy) -RENEWED

Hawaii Five-0 (CBS) -RENEWED

Hoarders (A & E) -RENEWED

Homeland (Showtime)  -RENEWED for Season 2, premiering in September.

House (Fox) -CANCELED: The series finale will air on May 21, 2012.

House of Lies (Showtime)  -RENEWED for Season 2.

How I Met Your Mother (CBS) -RENEWED

How to Make it in America (HBO) -CANCELED

Hung (HBO) -CANCELED

Intervention (A & E) -RENEWED

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX) -RENEWED through 2013!

Jersey Shore (MTV) -RENEWED for Season 6.

Justified (FX) -RENEWED for a fourth season of 13 episodes.

Killing, The (AMC) -ON THE BUBBLE: Backlash from Season 1 could do this in.

Kitchen Nightmares (Fox) -RENEWED for Season 5.

Last Man Standing (ABC) -ON THE BUBBLE: Started great, but now… not so much. Still, probably good enough for renewal.

Law & Order: SVU (NBC) -LIKELY RENEWAL: This should be back.

League, The (FX) -RENEWED: New season coming this fall.

Louie (FX) -RENEWED: New season starts this summer.

Luck (HBO) -CANCELED: Three horse deaths does not a renewed show make.

Napoleon Dynamite (Fox) -LIKELY CANCELLATION

New Girl (Fox) -RENEWED

Nikita (CW) -ON THE BUBBLE: It’s as on-the-bubble as on-the-bubble can be.

 Nurse Jackie (Showtime) -ON THE BUBBLE: Currently in Season 3.

Office, The (NBC) -LIKELY RENEWAL: But should it? There’s also talk of revamping it or spinning it off.

Once Upon A Time (ABC) -LIKELY RENEWAL: This show is almost certain to return.

One Tree Hill (CW) -CANCELED: The series finale aired on April 4.

Pan Am (ABC) -CANCELED

Parking Wars (A & E) -RENEWED

Parks and Recreation (NBC) -LIKELY RENEWAL: This will be back. Don’t worry.

Portlandia (IFC) -RENEWED for Season 3.

Psych (USA) -RENEWED

Revenge (ABC) -LIKELY RENEWAL: This is one of ABC’s new surprises and it should most certainly be back for more.

Ricky Gervais Show, The (HBO) -RENEWED: Season 3 to air soon.

Ringer (CW) -LIKELY CANCELLATION: It’s looking less and less likely.

River, The (ABC) -LIKELY CANCELLATION: We’d be awfully surprised if this came back.

Shameless (Showtime) -RENEWED for Season 3.

Shipping Wars (A & E) -RENEWED

Simpsons, The (Fox) -RENEWED through the 2014-15 season.

Skins (E4 Network)  -CANCELED: There will be no Season 8.

Smash (NBC) -RENEWED for Season 2.

Sons of Anarchy (FX) -RENEWED for Season 6.

South Park (Comedy Central) -RENEWED

Southland (TNT) -LIKELY RENEWAL: This is rumored to be very close to renewal.

Spartacus (Starz) -LIKELY RENEWAL: What would Starz be without blood, sex, and bloody sex?

Storage Wars (A & E) -RENEWED

Storage Wars: Texas (A & E) -RENEWED

Supernatural (CW) -LIKELY RENEWAL: It’s looking good..

Survivor (CBS) -RENEWED

Teen Wolf (MTV) -RENEWED: New season starts this summer.

Terra Nova (Fox) -CANCELED

Top Chef (Bravo) -RENEWED for Season 10.

Touch (Fox) -ON THE BUBBLE: This one could go either way, really.

Treme (HBO) -RENEWED: And might get a fourth season too.

True Blood (HBO) -RENEWED: Season 5 coming this summer, and Six is almost a certainty.

Two and a Half Men (CBS) -LIKELY RENEWAL: Slipping, but it’s still Two and a Half Men.

Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse (TBS) RENEWED for 35 more episodes.

Ugly Americans (Comedy Central) -ON THE BUBBLE: Could go anyway.

Vampire Diaries, The (CW) -LIKELY RENEWAL: This is as safe as safe gets.

Walking Dead, The (AMC) RENEWED: And this time it will be 16 episodes long.

Warehouse 13 (Syfy) RENEWED: New season coming this summer.

Weeds (Showtime) RENEWED: New season coming this summer.

Whitney (NBC) -LIKELY CANCELLATION: Our prayers are almost answered.

Wilfred (FX) -RENEWED: New season starts this summer.

Wipeout (ABC) -RENEWED

Workaholics (Comedy Central) -RENEWED: Season 3 starts in May.

Bryan Cranston confirmed on Friday what has been rumored since the season four finale: The final season of “Breaking Bad” — a 16-episode super season — will be split into two. According to Bryan Cranston, “We’re splitting it. We’re going to shoot the first eight, then take a four-month production break, then the rest will air next year.” There’s no official return date, though Cranston has previously suggested that “Breaking Bad” will return in July. Eight episodes should take it through August.

What’s unknown is whether the second half of the season will air after the four-month hiatus — which would mean around January — or if AMC will hold it until the subsequent July (boo!). If the 2011/2012 schedule holds, January/February 2103 could potentially mean running the second half of a “Walking Dead” season as a lead-in for “Breaking Bad” in early 2013, which would be a huge boost to Cranston’s series. “The Walking Dead” is cable’s highest rated scripted program.

Cranston will also be directing the premiere episode in the back 8. He also suggested that the series will — as we predicted earlier — essentially replace Gus Fring’s big bad with Walter White, who may transform from anti-hero to full-blown villain.

“We pick up right where we left off,” Cranston says of the fifth-season opener. “We’re cleaning up the pieces from last season’s huge ordeal where Gus Fring was forced to meet his maker. It’s not as easy as Walter thought. And as we’ve discovered over the years, you don’t really know who Walter White is. I’m still discovering who he is and I’m trying to allow myself to be open to him going darker and darker. There’s physical danger to himself and his family, plus there’s the emotional danger due to his anger and hubris. It’s about the evil that men do and where that takes him.”

I’d wish July here faster, but that’d mean rushing ourselves past cable’s second best series, “Game of Thrones,” and that’s something I want to savor. Take it your time, “Breaking Bad.” Get it right.

(Source: EW)

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NNOOOOOOOOO!!!

Over the past few years, retro video game enthusiast Doctor Octoroc has designed nifty 8-bit versions of such science fiction shows as Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, which he unveiled yesterday. To make matters even groovier, Octoroc has released MP3s of all his chiptune scifi soundtracks on his website. Here’s a veritable jukebox of free bleep-bloop music. Just follow the below links to the corresponding zip files.

- Matt Smith-era Doctor Who soundtrack (video here)
- The Battlestar Galactica soundtrack (a personal favorite, video here)
- The Game of Thrones soundtrack (video here)
- The Harry Potter cinematic soundtrack (video here)
- The Breaking Bad soundtrack (video here, our favorite moments from that show)
- Doctor Who, in the style of Super Nintendo (video here)
- Another Doctor Who 16-bit reinterpretation
- The Doctor Horrible soundtrack (video here)
- And finally, Twilight for those of you with a thing for pixelated werewolves

You can find more soundtracks at Doctor Octoroc’s website. And for more retro tunes, see the Daft Punk chiptunes album.

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