Vince Gilligan Announces 'Breaking Bad' Season 6?
Reports that the creator of 'Breaking Bad' has announced the series will return for a sixth season are fake news.
The creator of Breaking Bad announced the series will return for a sixth season.
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Breaking Bad fans around the world are celebrating the stunning, glorious and amazing news announced today: Walter White is not dead, and there will indeed be a sixth season of the wildly-popular, award-winning AMC drama.This shocking and exciting news comes not from an internet message board or the rumor mill but from series creator Vince Gilligan. In an exclusive CNN interview late Sunday evening, Gilligan dropped the bombshell.“Walter White is not dead, and neither is Breaking Bad,” said the 47-year-old writer, director, and executive producer of the groundbreaking show.
By the following day links and excerpts referencing this article were being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered the item mistaking it for a genuine news article. However, the article was just another bit of fake news from the National Report that was republished on other sites as well. All of these sources are fake news sites who publish outrageous fictional stories with clickbait headlines such as “IRS Plans to Target Leprechauns Next,” “Boy Scouts Announce Boobs Merit Badge,” and “New CDC Study Indicates Pets of Gay Couples Worse at Sports, Better at Fashion Than Pets of Straight Couples.”The National Report‘s page notes that all of the site’s articles are fiction:
National Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within National Report are fiction, and presumably fake news. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental.
On 14 October 2014 another fake news site, Empire News, published an article with the very same premise:
If you were are fan of the hit AMC TV show Breaking Bad, then I hope you’re sitting down for this news. Vince Gilligan, the creator of the much-loved series, has announced that on top of working on creating spin-off series Better Call Saul, he and his writers have begun working on a sixth season for Breaking Bad.“It’s true, we did decide to come back for another round with Walt,” said series creator Gilligan. “Better Call Saul is going to be able to stand on its own, but there is more to Walt’s story. He hasn’t died just yet.”
Their disclaimer page notes that Empire News “is a satirical and entertainment website.”Season two of Better Call Saul, the follow-on prequel series about Breaking Bad‘s conniving “criminal lawyer” character Saul Goodman, has featured appearances from several Breaking Bad characters such as the Cousins and Hector Salamanca. Some sharp-eyed fans of the latter show noticed that first letter of each of the episode titles in Better Call Saul’s second season are an anagram for the phrase “FRING’S BACK,” heralding the potential reappearance of Breaking Bad drug lord Gus Fring: