Breaking Good – Breaking Bad News – Thursday 08/25/11 Edition

On a sad note, Michael Showers, an actor who played a union worker in the Breaking Bad season 3 episode “One Minute”, was found dead in the Mississippi River yesterday morning.  He also had a recurring role opposite David Morse on the show “Treme”.

Did you know AMC holds Twitter contests and gives away prizes each week?  Check out the first paragraph of this article on the official AMC Breaking Bad site that lists a few of the best tweets from the previous week and talks about the contest a bit.

Apparently it’s a slow news day today because that’s all I could find.  But let me leave you with one last thing; a pic of Walt and Jesse and the blue stuff.  Any idea on street value?

WARNING: This last paragraph could be a little spoilery!  Skip it if you’re worried about that sort of thing.

And finally, being a drug lord apparently doesn’t keep you from getting jobs in Hollywood as Giancarlo Esposito has just signed on to the pilot of USA’s new series “Over/Under”.  He has also recently announced that he’ll be appearing in ABC’s upcoming “Once Upon a Time”.  Could this mean Gustavo Fring doesn’t have much time left?  Maybe only as long as Gale’s coffee holds out?!  Just sayin’…