Breaking Bad is an AMC drama television show produced by X-Files creator Vince Gilligan. The acclaimed series features Bryan Cranston as high school chemistry teacher Walter White who after a terminal cancer diagnosis, begins producing and selling methamphetamines in order to provide financially for his family after his death.

The show received generally positive reviews when it debuted on January 20, 2008, but the first season ended after seven episodes, due to the writer's strike. Bryan Cranston won Emmy Awards as Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for his role on the show in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Breaking Bad has also won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series in both 2008 and 2009 plus actor Aaron Paul won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2010. Other awards include honors from the Peabody Awards, Satellite Awards, Writer Guild of America Awards, Prism Awards and TCA Awards.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/awards

Walter White is diagnosed with terminal cancer and turns to manning a rolling drug lab to finance his family's future. He partners with an ex-student (played by Aaron Paul), who previously failed White's class while he was still in high school. To make things a bit more complicated, his brother-in-law is an agent for the DEA and is actively investigating the source of the city's new type of crystal methamphetamine, which owes it's level of purity to White's knowledge of chemistry.

• Bryan Cranston as Walter White

• Anna Gunn as Skyler White, Walter's wife

• RJ Mitte as Walter White Jr., Walter's son

• Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, Walter's former student

• Dean Norris as Hank Schrader, Walter's brother-in-law

• Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader, Skyler's sister

• Raymond Cruz as Walter's drug distributor