Vince Gilligan Talks Better Call Saul and Tech at CES

Breaking Bad spinoff will roll out on AMC ‘within about a year’

Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony, introduced a surprise guest at the CES 2014 keynote: Vince Gilligan, creator/showrunner of AMC’s hit Breaking Bad, whom he interviewed along with Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Here are some of the highlights in Gilligan’s own words: 

Gilligan on serialization: “When I was starting off in TV about 20 years ago, the conventional wisdom was that serialized storytelling was to be avoided at all costs. With these SVOD services, it allows for a serialized sort of storytelling, in fact, even the hyperserialized form of storytelling we employed on Breaking Bad.

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