AMC Announces Breaking Bad Return, New Shows, and More

AMC has become a cable powerhouse as of late with tons of hit shows that are actually of a high quality. Today, they announced lots of new stuff about their future:

The big news: The final 8 episodes of the incredible Breaking Bad will begin on Sunday, August 11 at 9 p.m.

Those final "Breaking Bad" episodes will be used to launch Low Winter Sun, a new crime drama starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. It'll air at 10 p.m. starting the same night, and lead into Talking Bad, a new, hour-long show which discusses each Breaking Bad episode. It is expected to be a lot like The Walking Dead's discussion show Talking Dead. 

It's a little annoying that they stuck a new show in between Breaking Bad and the show discussing Breaking Bad, but I guess they're hoping to draw more attention to Low Winter Sun. 
Other news from AMC:

• Small Town Security will be back on Thursday, May 9 at 10 p.m. 
• A few weeks later, it'll be joined on Thursdays by Showville, another reality series about a traveling small town talent show. It'll air at 9 p.m. starting May 23.
• On Thursday, August 15, the new show Owner's Manual (two guys compete to master technology, one reading the manual and one not) will begin at 9 p.m.
• The Pitch, a great reality show about the world of advertising, will return on August 15 at 10 p.m.
• Talking Dead will (obviously) be retuning for a third season. 
• Also renewed: Comic Book Men and Freakshow. 
• New shows in development
• Scripted
• King: a '60s political drama from Joe Scarborough and ex-Sopranos writers Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider; 
• Sci-fi drama Ballistic City, from Pacific Rim writer Travis Beacham and Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski; 
• Ashland, set in '50s Kentucky and created by indie film queen Allison Anders; 
• White City,  about journalists and diplomats living in Afghanistan; 
• An untitled drama from Mad Men writer Dahvi Waller about two brothers running a New York automobile business in the '20s; 
• An untitled sci-fi series set in a future where we're on the verge of a second American revolution; 
• The Wall, an espionage drama set in '60s Berlin.
• Unscripted 
• Majority Rules, a "light-hearted" look at the democratic process
• All-Star Celebrity Bowling, which is exactly what you'd think
• Cancelled, in which six families compete to see whose reality show within the show will last the longest.