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Apple TV+ confirms release date of Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s new show
The first trailer for Vince Gilligan’s newest series has dropped
It’s been nearly three years since Apple TV+ first snapped up the rights to Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan’s next series. After dropping a cryptic countdown on YouTube, which featured the tagline “Happiness is Contagious, the streamer has announced the name, release date and cast of the show. Pluribus will be released on November 7 2025.
The series will star Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn, who was nominated twice for an Emmy for her portrayal on the show, alongside Karolina Wydra and Carlos-Manuel Vesga and other guest stars. And Apple TV+ described Pluribus as “a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.” But that’s as much as we know so far.
But, in 2022, Deadline previously stated that it was set in our world and would explore human nature in unexpected ways, adding that it was “thought-provoking but not a morality tale”.
The following year, Gilligan told Variety that, like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, it takes place in Albuquerque, albeit a very different one. “The world changes very abruptly in the first episode, and then it is quite different,” Gilligan said. “And the consequences that that reaps hopefully provide drama for many, many episodes after that.”
While Gilligan told Variety that he had no predictions as to how people would react to it, he says, “it’s a story that interests” him, and given that it had several studios after it and multiple rounds of bidding, Gilligan’s upcoming series could be a corker.
How to subscribe to Apple TV+
Vince Gilligan’s new show is an Apple TV+ exclusive, so you’ll need to subscribe to the streaming service to watch it when it premieres later this year.
Apple TV+ costs £9.99 per month. But if you’re not already subscribed, you can try out the streaming service with a seven-day free trial. Apple TV+ is home to fan favourite shows like Ted Lasso, Silo, The Morning Show and more.
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