“Well, you know, if you stop in any doughnut shop, and you see three cops eating donuts, one of them is gonna look like me. I don’t know why that is … but I guess you have a certain look, it’s kind of an authoritative law enforcement-type look and that look is certainly the first thing that people cast you with before you get a chance to do some acting.”

— Dean Norris on why he’s so often cast as law enforcement

Today: Dean Norris from Breaking Bad.

Today: Aaron Paul on Fresh Air

Tomorrow: Aaron Paul

Breaking Bad on Fresh Air

Arrested Development on Fresh Air

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The Best Of Fresh Air 2011: Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad

Walter White: Hello?

David Bianculli: I’ve just named Breaking Bad my favorite show of 2011.

Walter White: Never mind that. We need a distributor now. Do you know anyone like that? 

David Bianculli: Um…no?

David Bianculli’s thoughts on last night’s finale: If you don’t want to hear details, especially about last night’s season finale of Breaking Bad, turn away from this website now. But I consider it fair game to talk in detail about TV shows once they’ve been televised — especially if they’re doing interesting enough work to be saluted for it. [more]

You take Mr. Chips and turn him into Scarface.

— Vince Gilligan’s original pitch to AMC for Breaking Bad. [complete interview here]

On today’s Fresh Air, actor Aaron Paul talks about the evolution of his character Jesse Pinkman on AMC’s Breaking Bad: “But the entire second season, the entire third season, I thought that Jesse could be a goner at any moment because there’s many things that this character could screw up on, and he could definitely meet his deathbed at any moment.” [also series creator Vince Gilligan]

Interviewer: The first season of Breaking Bad was obviously shortened by the writers’ strike. And you said that you had originally intended to kill off a character in episode nine but you only got to episode seven. […] Who were you going to kill off?
Vince: I was going to kill off this gentleman right here [points to Aaron].
Aaron: Thank God for the writers’ strike. Thank you writers! I love you. Wow.
Bryan: Eh, you should’ve done it.

Today: Vince Gilligan, Aaron Paul. Previously: Bryan Cranston.

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Jesse Pinkman Shows Up To The Office

Today: Jesse Pinkman Show Up To Fresh Air (our guests are Aaron Paul and Vince Gilligan.)

Bryan Cranston on Fresh Air. Monday: Vince Gilligan, Aaron Paul.

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Season 2 Promo and Season 4 Promo

Monday: Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan.

New seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Torchwood premiered over the weekend and three other cable shows return to primetime starting Wednesday. Never mind that it’s the height of summer — TV critic David Bianculli says this week will be a TV fan’s Christmas.