New 'Breaking Bad' Project Officially Confirmed for 2026 With Dean Norris Returning

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Published Mar 25, 2026, 6:09 PM EDT

Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.

There are plenty of shows with a claim to being the greatest TV series ever made, but few with as many points of evidence to back it up as Breaking Bad. The hit crime thriller series hails from creator Vince Gilligan, and it stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, who both earned several Emmy Awards for their performance in the show. Breaking Bad first premiered in 2008, and it aired five seasons before going off the air in 2013 — not something you see much of anymore, in a new era of TV where many shows take years between seasons. The show holds a nearly perfect 96% from critics and an even stronger 97% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, and it’s been streaming exclusively on Netflix for years.

There have been several Breaking Bad spin-offs to come after the original show. The first was Better Call Saul, another series spun off Bob Odenkirk’s fan-favorite character, Saul Goodman. A Breaking Bad movie titled El Camino was released in 2019, and while it was mostly well-liked by critics and audiences, most agreed that it failed to capture the same magic as the original series. Another Breaking Bad project will give the franchise another chance to recapture that magic, as series star Dean Norris took to his personal X account to officially announce Do What You’re Gonna Do: The Definitive Oral History of Breaking Bad. The book will be released later this year on November 3. Norris plays Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad, Walter’s brother-in-law and the DEA agent who spends most of the five seasons tracking Walter and his blue meth. Norris says the book is “packed with never-before-heard stories and exclusive interviews with the incredible people who brought the show to life.”

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What Does This Mean for the Future of ‘Breaking Bad’?

A new oral history of Breaking Bad releasing more than 10 years after the show went off the air is proof that it’s still a major cash cow for AMC and Netflix. Both spin-offs were also highly successful, so there’s no reason to think the book won’t be too. It’s unlikely that Gilligan will return for a new Breaking Bad-adjacent TV project anytime soon, though. The masterful television scribe is hard at work writing the second season of his hit Apple TV sci-fi series, Pluribus.

Check out all episodes of Breaking Bad on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the Breaking Bad universe.