Apple TV Plus could be getting another top sci-fi series from the creator of Breaking Bad

The unnamed new show isn’t about drugs, but we suspect we’re going to be hooked all the same

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Hands up if you lovedBreaking BadandBetter Call Saul.Us too. So we’re absolutely stoked by the news that Vince Gilligan, creator of both shows, has a new series in production forApple TV Plus. It’s a sci-fi series starring Rhea Seehorn, who was so brilliant inSaul,and it’ll begin filming in New Mexico later this year.

Gilligan revealed some details about the new show in a fascinating interview withVarietyin which he explains why there won’t be a “Heisenberg Jr” spin-off series, how he handles writing himself into a corner and how the shows’ characters live on in his head. But it’s the new series that has got us particularly excited.

What show is Vince Gilligan making now?

“I wouldn’t call this heavy science fiction,” Gilligan says. “I would call it mild science fiction. But it does have a sci-fi element to it, at its core… it’s going to be fun and different”. Although the show is set in Albuquerque, whereBetter Call Saulwas largely filmed, it’s a very different Albuquerque – quite literally. “The world changes very abruptly in the first episode,” Gilligan explains. “It’s the modern world – the world we live in – but it changes very abruptly. And the consequences that that reaps hopefully provide drama for many, many episodes after that.”

Applehas commissioned two series and clearly there’s potential for more, with it likely to be among ourbest Apple TV Plus showslist soon. Gilligan is adamant that there’s no overlap between the worlds ofBetter Call Sauland the new show – Seehorn “is playing a character who isnotKim Wexler,” he says – but he’s keeping most of the details secret for the time being.

I don’t know about you but I’m sold already: we know that the combination of Seehorn and Gilligan is a superb one, and that’s enough to put this unnamed show right at the top of my watch list. And it’s worth pointing out that Gilligan isn’t new to “mild” sci-fi, so this isn’t him moving into a genre he doesn’t know: beforeBreaking Badhe worked onThe X-Files, for which he shared three Golden Globe Awards, and its spin-off seriesThe Lone Gunmen.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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