Copyright 2008 AMC

Meet Walter H. White -- dutiful husband, doting father, high-school chemistry teacher … and clandestine crystal-meth chef. The trials of this inhibited, 50-year-old white guy out to make fast cash for his family on the Albuquerque drug scene -- and getting in way over his head -- are chronicled, warts and all, in "Breaking Bad," a new AMC original series premiering January 20 at 10 p.m. EST.

BRYAN CRANSTON, the Emmy-nominated actor perhaps best known for playing the madcap father of four on FOX's "Malcolm in the Middle," takes center stage in "Breaking Bad," and he turns in a similarly funny yet understated performance as its unlikely hero, Walter: the hapless, mustached 50-year-old roused into extreme action only after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. (He has never once smoked a cigarette.).

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