Better Call Saul was originally envisioned as a half-hour sitcom

Entertainment Weekly

“We sold it to Sony and AMC without knowing what it was,” Vince Gilligan said at the ATX Television Festival. “We thought it might be a half-hour sitcom. We thought about ripping off Dr. Katz. Week in and week out famous comics would come in with their legal problems. But we knew nothing about writing straight-up comedy.”