The comb-over lives.
Sketchy “Breaking Bad” lawyer Saul Goodman is getting his own show.
AMC says it will produce a prequel to “Breaking Bad” called “Better Call Saul,” which will center around the “evolution” of the oily, follically challenged lawyer played by Bob Odenkirk.
Word of the show had circulated over the summer when “BB” creator Vince Gilligan first floated the idea.
The prequel (no airdate yet) will cover Saul’s life before he met “BB” meth chef Walter White (Bryan Cranston), who’s morphed from a milquetoast fighting terminal cancer to a cold, calculating killer — aided and abetted in his life of crime by the corrupt. sleazy Goodman.
(The show’s title comes from Goodman’s catchphrase, “Better Call Saul!,” seen on TV ads and billboards in and around the show’s Albuquerque, NM locale.)
The prequel’s timing is fortuitous. With only three episodes of “Breaking Bad” left before the show ends its five-season run, Saul’s ultimate fate remains in question.
But that won’t really matter, since the spinoff will be set in an earlier time.
Odenkirk, 50, is a familiar TV face, starring for four seasons on HBO’s “Mr. Show With Bob and David” along with Dave Cross (Tobias Funke on “Arrested Development”). He also appeared on HBO’s ’90s cult hit “The Larry Sanders Show,” which starred Garry Shandling, and was a writer for “Saturday Night Live” from 1987-1991.
“Better Call Saul” marks Odenkirk’s first series starring role.
The “Breaking Bad” series finale airs Sept. 29.