This week, Breaking Bad is named by the U.K.'s Shortlist magazine as one of the 50 coolest TV shows of all time, and Aaron Paul speaks to Collider and hits the red carpet at the SAG Awards. Plus, Breaking Bad becomes both a rock opera and old-school role playing video game. Read on for more:

• The U.K.'s Shortlist calls Breaking Bad one of the 50 coolest TV shows ever, complimenting the drama for serving as "a modern-day fable."

• Aaron Paul speaks to Collider.com about Breaking Bad's final season, as well as his many movie projects.

• On the SAG Awards red carpet, Aaron Paul tells Buzz Sugar how shocked he was by the final moments of the Season 4 finale: "Oh my God, Walter White just continues to be so venomous." Paul also spoke with MTV about the Rat Pack-esque ad he did with Diddy. Socialite Life has a photo of Paul on the red carpet.

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This week, Aaron Paul was at the Sundance Film Festival for his new movie, Smash, and took time to speak with numerous publications, including New York magazine, HitFix, and The Hollywood Reporter, about Breaking Bad's upcoming final season. Plus, Betsy Brandt talks to Terra about the SAG Awards and her new film, and coverage of Breaking Bad's latest award nominations. Read on for more:

• At the Sundance Film Festival, New York magazine speaks with Aaron Paul about Walt and Jesse's relationship (and other things too): "I hate Walt for what he's done to Jesse. If only Jesse knew all the horrible things that he did, oh my god."

• Paul also talks to HitFix about the "bittersweet" feeling of approaching Breaking Bad's final season. (There's also a separate interview with HitFix about his movie Smashed).

• In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Paul says he thinks Breaking Bad's final season is "just going to be a race to the finish, definitely swing for the fences on this one."

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The official Breaking Bad Facebook page has reached a milestone: two million fans! To be exact, 2,146,588 fans as of noon today. That's more than the current population of Breaking Bad's home state of New Mexico according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

If you're not already a Breaking Bad fan on Facebook, click here to like the page now. If you're already a fan, consider following Breaking Bad on Twitter, too.

The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) have announced their nominees for the 59th Annual Golden Reel Awards, and Breaking Bad has been honored with a nod in the Best Sound Editing: Short Form Sound Effects and Foley in Television category for the Season 4 finale, "Face Off."

The full team nominated in the category is as follows:

• Supervising Sound Editor: Nick Forshager
• Foley Artists: Gregg Barbanell M.P.S.E., Dominique Tabach'Decaudain
• Sound Effects Editors: Mark Cookson, Cormac Funge
• Foley Editor: Jeff Cranford
• Assistant Sound Editor: Dana Olsefsky
• Foley Mixer: Stacey Michaels
• FX Re-recording Mixer: Eric Justen

Competing with Breaking Bad are Showtime's The Borgias, Fox's Fringe, HBO's Game of Thrones, Showtime's Homeland, Fox's House, TNT's Rizzoli & Isles, and The WB's Smallville.

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This week, The San Antonio Express-News praises Breaking Bad as perhaps the best show ever, and Bryan Cranston does several interviews on the Golden Globes red carpet. Plus, Wired chooses Walter White as one of the best fictional scientists, and Cranston talks to Access Hollywood about working with Tom Cruise. Read on for more:

• The San Antonio Express-News calls Breaking Bad "arguably the best television show ever" and talks about taking pride in getting others to watch the show.

• On the red carpet at the Golden Globes, Bryan Cranston talks to Entertainment Tonight about how he deals with the excitement of being at the Globes; tells The Huffington Post that he doesn't "go online to read things... I would rather work than talk about work or reflect on work;" and speaks with Hollyscoop, saying of Walt, "Once you compromise your moral soul, you're lost and that's what happened to Walter White."

• Wired considers Walter White one of the best fictional scientists, noting, "Whenever he uses basic science to get out of a sticky situation, you can see his analytical brain working just as fast as his teacher's instinct to nurture."

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This morning, the Cinema Audio Society announced their nominees for the 48th Annual CAS Awards and Breaking Bad's Darryl L. Frank, Jeffery Perkins, and Eric Justen have been honored with a nod in the Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing, Television Series category.

The nomination, the first for Breaking Bad, is for their work on Season 4 Episode 13, "Face Off". Also competing in the Television Series category are HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Showtime's Dexter, HBO's Game of Thrones, and AMC's own The Walking Dead.

The Cinema Audio Society is a philanthropic, non-profit organization formed in 1964 for the purpose of sharing information with sound professionals in the motion picture and television industry. Members include Mixers (production and post production, film and video) who work on feature films, television, and commercials; Mixers who specialize in music scoring, video post sweetening, A.D.R. and Foley; Sound Specialists such as sound editors, technicians, recordists, and microphone boom operators; and companies in the audio and video fields.

The awards will be presented during a dinner on Sat., Feb. 18th at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

AMC's sister network, Sundance Channel, has announced that Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston will appear on an episode of their original series, The Mortified Sessions.

The Mortified Sessions features celebrities and other notable guests sharing anecdotes from their youth and talking through "mortifying" artifacts from their childhood such as awkward photos, diary entries, embarrassing drawings, and more, providing unique and revealing insights into how each person became who they are today. During his illuminating episode, Bryan Cranston reveals to host David Nadelberg that as a kid he actually dreamed of being a police officer, but as an adult has ended up becoming famous for playing someone on the other side of the law.

Cranston's episode of The Mortified Sessions premieres Mon., Jan. 30 at 8PM | 7C on Sundance Channel. Want a sneak peek? Check out this exclusive video clip.

(Above: Bryan Cranston with David Nadelberg, host of the Sundance Channel original series The Mortified Sessions. Photo credit: Carol Bringas)

The American Cinema Editors have announced their nominees for the 62nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards honoring excellence in film and television editing, and Breaking Bad editors Kelley Dixon and Skip MacDonald have both been honored with nods in the Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television category.

Dixon and MacDonald were nominated for their work on Season 4 Episode 12, "End Times" and Season 4 Episode 13, "Face Off", respectively. The nomination is the second for Dixon, the first for MacDonald, and Breaking Bad's fourth and fifth nominations overall. Dixon and MacDonald will face off against Friday Night Lights' Angela M. Catanzaro; The Good Wife's Hibah Frisina; and Hunter Via from AMC's own The Walking Dead.

American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950. Film editors are voted into membership on the basis of their professional achievements, their dedication to the education of others and their commitment to the craft of editing.

The awards will be presented during a ceremony on Sun., Feb. 18 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

Click here to check out the Breaking Bad Insider Podcast hosted by Kelley Dixon

This week, Breaking Bad is named one of the best shows of 2011 by outlets including the Huffington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and E! Online predicts Bryan Cranston will win a Golden Globe this weekend. Plus, more award nominations for the show, Aaron Paul gets engaged, and Jaleel White, a.k.a. "Steve Urkel," expresses interest in guest starring. Read on for more:

• Breaking Bad is the Huffington Post's choice for best returning dramatic series of 2011 because it's "one of those rare remarkable shows that truly improve as they get older."

• The St. Louis Post-Dispatch praises Breaking Bad as the best of 2011, calling it "amazing to watch."

• The Reno News & Review applauds Breaking Bad as "the new kingpin, and it completely delivered in Season 4."

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The Directors Guild of America has announced their nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television for 2011. Breaking Bad's Vince Gilligan was honored with a nomination in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series category for his work on the Season 4 finale, "Face Off." This is Gilligan's first DGA nomination.

The nomination was one of two nods in the category for AMC: Patty Jenkins was also nominated for her work on The Killing's Season 1 premiere, "Pilot."

Gilligan and Jenkins will face off against Michael Cuesta (Homeland, "Pilot," Showtime), Tim Van Patten (Game of Thrones, "Winter is Coming" [Pilot], HBO), and Michael Waxman (Friday Night Lights, "Always" [Series Finale], NBC).

The full directorial team behind "Face Off" is as follows:

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