Peter Gould is an American television writer, director and producer. He worked on all five seasons of the AMC drama Breaking Bad, and was nominated for four Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards for his work on the series. After Breaking Bad ended, he went on to become the co-creator and co-showrunner, with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, of the show's spinoff, Better Call Saul. He became the series' sole showrunner after Gilligan left the writers' room. He was the senior writer throughout both series' run.
Education Gould was born in New York City. In 1978, Gould graduated from the Lawrenceville School, a private preparatory school in New Jersey, before entering Sarah Lawrence College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1982. In 1990, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a Master of Fine Arts.
Career After graduating from college, he produced commercials in New York. He soon entered USC Film School, where he would later teach. "Better Call Saul". Audio commentary by Peter Gould et al. Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season. Disc 3. Season 2. Episode 8. AMC.
In 2008, he joined the writing staff of the first season of Breaking Bad as a story editor. He wrote the first-season episode "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal". The first season writing staff was nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for best new series at the February 2009 ceremony.
Gould was promoted to executive story editor for the second season. He wrote the second-season episodes "Bit by a Dead Bee" and "Better Call Saul". The writing staff was nominated for the WGA award for best drama series at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the second season. Gould was promoted to producer for the third season and wrote the episode "Caballo sin Nombre" and co-wrote the episode "Kafkaesque" with fellow producer George Mastras. Gould was promoted again to supervising producer for the fourth season in 2011. During this season, he directed his first episode of television, “Problem Dog”.
In 2011, he wrote the HBO television film Too Big to Fail based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's book of the same name chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators.
With Gilligan, he became co-creator and co-showrunner of the spinoff series, Better Call Saul. The show debuted on February 8, 2015, and was the highest-rated cable television series premiere to date. Gould would become the series sole showrunner after Gilligan left the writing staff early in the third season to focus on other projects. This transition had been planned since the show's debut.
The episode "Uno" from the first season of Better Call Saul won the 2015 Writers Guild of America award for Best Dramatic Episode in February 2016. The episode was written by Gould and Gilligan.
In 2017 and 2022, Better Call Saul was honored with a Peabody Award for "developing its own unique tone mixing legal drama, crime thriller, and dark comedy."
He created Disinherited for FX, starring Victoria Pedretti and Kiera Allen. The network gave the pilot order in 2025, with Gould serving as writer and director. In March 2026, the pilot was picked up to series.
Personal life Gould and his wife Nora Doyle have one child, a daughter, together.
Filmography Screenplays Year Title Role Notes 1994 Double Dragon Co-writer Based on the video game 2000 Meeting Daddy Writer and director 2011 Too Big to Fail Writer Television film
Television episodes credits Year Show Season Episode number Episode title Director Writer Notes 2008 Breaking Bad 1 7 "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal" 2009 23 "Bit by a Dead Bee"8 "Better Call Saul" 2010 32 "Caballo sin Nombre"9 "Kafkaesque" Co-written with George Mastras12 "Half Measures" Co-written with Sam Catlin 2011 47 "Problem Dog" 10 "Salud" Co-written with Gennifer Hutchison 2012 53 "Hazard Pay" 20139 "Blood Money"15 "Granite State" 2015 Better Call Saul 11 "Uno" Co-written with Vince Gilligan2 "Mijo"10 "Marco" 2016 29 "Nailed" 2017 31 "Mabel" Co-written with Vince Gilligan10 "Lantern" 2018 41 "Smoke" 10 "Winner" Co-written with Thomas Schnauz 2020 51 "Magic Man"10 "Something Unforgivable"Co-written with Ariel Levine 2022 61 "Wine and Roses"13 "Saul Gone"
Production staff Year Show Role Notes 2008 Breaking Bad Story editor Season 1 2009 Executive story editor Season 2 2010 Producer Season 3 2011 Supervising producer Season 4 2012 Co-executive producer Season 5 2013 2015 Better Call Saul Executive producer Season 1 2016 Season 2 2017 Season 3 2018 Season 4 2020 Season 5 2022 Season 62025Pluribus Consulting producerSeason 1
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