Peter Gould

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 did commercials in New York for a while before entering USC Film School.

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.

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."

Personal life

Gould and his wife Nora Doyle have one child, a daughter, together.

Filmography

Screenplays

Television episodes credits

Production staff

References

References

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