AMC has confirmed that Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul season four will be premiering on Monday, August 6.
Netflix is streaming episodes outside of America and it’s expected that the platform will be dropping episodes weekly.
However, Netflix has yet to announce a release date for the fourth season.
Season four of Better Call Saul is set to be a pivotal one for the drama as events get closer to those of parent series Breaking Bad.
Speaking about season four, Better Call Saul producer Vince Gilligan told The A.V. Club: “Every year gets us closer to Jimmy McGill becoming Saul Goodman, and this year will be no different.
“The worlds of Jimmy and Saul are coming together, and therefore it stands to reason the worlds of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad are overlapping deeper and deeper into one another as well.”
But who is the cast of Breaking Bad and who will be joining?
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Which characters are returning to Better Call Saul?
Comedian Bob Odenkirk will be reprising his role as the eponymous Saul Goodman before his Breaking Bad transformation.
In Better Call Saul, the small-town lawyer is still James “Jimmy” Morgan McGill, who is based in New Mexico and runs a small law firm.
Speaking about the forthcoming run, Odenkirk told The Austin Chronicle: “I’m starting to feel bad that [Jimmy’s] gonna be this guy who has abandoned any idealism he had, and the hope of being a good person.”
Jonathan Banks will be back as hitman Mike Ehrmantraut, who will only just be getting his hands dirty as he delves into the murky criminal underworld of Albuquerque.
According to the official season four synopsis from AMC, Ehrmantraut is going to take on a “more active role” as Madrigal Electromotive’s security consultant.
Returning as Saul’s love interest and fellow lawyer will be Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler, whose fate seemed uncertain at the end of season three when she fell asleep at the wheel.
Season four will see the character recovering but there will be a major shift in her relationship with Saul as starts to transform into the cynical Breaking Bad fan-favourite.
Another returning cast member will be Patrick Fabian as he returns as lawyer Howard Hamlin.
Meanwhile, Michael Mando is back as Ignacio “Nacho” Varga, who will find himself in a precarious situation after getting caught in the “crosshairs of deadly forces”.
Sadly, it looks like Michael McKean won’t be back as Saul’s brother Charles L. ‘Chuck’ McGill, who was killed at the end of the third season.
Other cast members returning to season four include Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring, Kerry Condon as Stacey Ehrmantraut and Ann Cusack as Chuck’s ex wife Rebecca.
Who is in the new season of Better Call Saul?
The programme-makers behind Better Call Saul have confirmed that characters from Breaking Bad will be appearing in season four.
“There’s a very important character from the Breaking Bad era that we’re going to meet this year,” Gilligan told the AMC Summit.
He went on to tell The Hollywood Reporter: “I’m not promising you ever saw this character.”
Fellow producer Melissa Bernstein has also said: “We have a couple of new characters that we’ll be reintroducing to the world.”
While no names have been confirmed, there have been lots of hints about who could be back including Dean Norris as DEA agent Hank Schrader and Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman.
Better Call Saul season 4 starts on AMC on August 6
