'Breaking Bad' Breaking News: No new episodes until July 2011, the world's dark-comedy fans mourn

Are you a fan of AMC's Breaking Bad? Guess what you don't get until July of 2011?

You may recall that your friendly, neighborhood Comedy Examiner is a recent addition to the long list of people enamored with Breaking Bad, the best series on AMC right now ("right now" because The Walking Dead hasn't yet arrived, but when it does, prepare for greatness). As a recent convert to the Breaking Bad fanclub, one can understand how infuriating the following news would be: no new episodes of Breaking Bad until July of next year. Yeah-- 2011. Over a year from now. For more information on how miserable all our lives are going to be for the next year, keep on reading, my gentle Examiner readers...

Hey, there, cool guy: are you a big fan of AMC's Breaking Bad? Did that season finale cliffhanger leave you with a raging need to know what happens next? Are you foolishly hoping that the TV Gods will smile upon us all and deliver new episodes of this glorious show sooner rather than later? Well, the time has come for you to suck it:

“We are going to get back in the room in early July and we’re looking forward to doing that. We’re going to go back on the air in I think July of 2011 so it’s a little ways off but we’ve got a lot of lead time to hopefully make the best show we can make… It’s going to be a lot more pre/writing time which is very good for us.”

Thus spake Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan to ScreenJunkies.com (By now, if you're a fan of the show you've probably seen the season finale, but just in case you haven't and you're dragging ass on getting caught up with all that Breaking Bad glory on your DVR, be prepared for some spoiler-talk). There's no indication on why the lag between seasons will be so substantial, but my theory is they're adding a laughtrack. That, or everyone involved needed a break. Gilligan was asked about the plot for the upcoming season, and here's what he had to say in response:

I could be coy and say I can’t say that because it’s top secret, but the truth is I don’t really know yet. We’re going to kind of make it up as we go along. I’ve got a few ideas swirling around in there but we do try to do our show sort of like, I like to think of it, and I’m not musician, but I like to think of it as freeform jazz. We sort of like to improvise sort of like jazz musicians do."

You'll recall that last season ended with Jesse shooting Walt's current meth-lab assistant, and with Walt being held at gunpoint by one of his boss' hitman-henchmen. Because I watched the entire series on DVD up until the last few episodes of the current season (don't ask me how), I'm used to getting more Breaking Bad whenever I damn well want it. This concept of waiting in between new seasons is new to me, but then, I'm used to this sort of abuse, being a long-time fan of HBO's The Sopranos (which sometimes took close to two years in between seasons, which was just cruel). This is a hard pill to swallow, though. Luckily, AMC's bestowed us with a "sneak-peek" at the upcoming season, which is odd considering the show's creator just told us that he didn't know where it was headed:

Oh, I see. That wasn't much of a "sneak-peek" at all, was it? While you're here, be sure to check out this other, far more entertaining video while you're here, and stay tuned for more on Breaking Bad as it becomes available, my precious snowflakes.

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