Sony Television is shopping “Breaking Bad” to other channels after the production company and AMC failed to agree on a number of episodes for the series’ fifth season, according to the Los Angeles Times.
AMC wanted the fifth season to run only six to eight episodes while Sony and series mastermind Vince Gilligan wanted to produce the usual 13.
Sony has now approached at least three other cable channels, one of which had to be its crime-drama partner FX, which airs Sony’s “Justified,” and used to air Sony’s “The Shield.”
AMC is on a cost-cutting tear, having reduced the cost of its biggest hit, “The Walking Dead,” by $250,000 per episode for that show’s now-shooting second season. “Dead” mastermind Frank Darabont (writer-director of such acclaimed features as “The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Green Mile” and “The Mist”) has since been replaced as showrunner by Glen Mazzara, creator of Starz’ critically reviled and abysmally rated TV version of “Crash.”
Find all of the Times’ story on the matter here.
