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Why ‘Breaking Bad’ Star Fought to Revive His Goofy Sitcom
April 8, 2026
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Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/HuluBreaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston had been fighting for Malcolm in the Middle to return for years before Hulu finally greenlit its new limited series. “I planted the seed. I told Linwood Boomer, the creator of the show, that there’s cause to revisit this,” Cranston, 70, told Obsessed: The Podcast of his “unfinished business” on the show that launched his career.

“The fans are telling me their ideas of what happened and their questions of what happened, and I couldn’t answer them.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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