Breaking Bad creator Vince Giligan is scheduled to direct the premiere of Better Call Saul, a prequel series to his show Breaking Bad.

Better Call Saul is a television series scheduled for release on the AMC network. It is a spin off about the life of Saul Goodman, a criminal lawyer, before his work on the very popular series Breaking Bad.

Breaking Bad also aired on the AMC network, receiving positive acclaim and winning various Emmys along the way. It followed Walter White, a financially strapped high school chemistry teacher with terminal lung cancer who turns to a life of meth-related crimes before he dies to secure his family’s finances. The series ended just last year as one of the most-watched cable television shows of all time.

Better Call Saul began production in New Mexico earlier this month. Vince Giligan’s involvement is just one of the early signals that AMC is taking the production of this series very seriously. AMC has also approved a second season before the first one begins airing. This means that 23 episodes of Better Call Saul are already scheduled to air over the course of the next two years.

AMC is demonstrating its confidence in the success of Better Call Saul with its viewers by ensuring that its cast is the same, hiring Vince Giligan to direct the new series, and ordering a second season. Hopefully this isn’t all premature, as the scheduled premiere date isn’t until 2015.