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Amazon’s latest original pilot, Sneaky Pete, can boast to being the first show to take its inspiration from an Emmys acceptance speech. After winning his fifth Outstanding Actor statue for the final season of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston took a moment to pay tribute to his childhood nickname, “Sneaky Pete,” the moniker bestowed on him by his family due to his penchant for scheming and taking shortcuts. The speech obviously stuck with veteran TV producer David Shore, because he teamed with Cranston to develop a series based around that name, with the former Walter White himself on board as a guest star.

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It’s worth noting that Cranston isn’t the Sneaky Pete of Sneaky Pete. Instead, as this trailer shows, Giovanni Ribisi will inherit the mantle, playing a con man fresh out of prison who “borrows” his cellmate’s identity. That cellmate’s name? Pete, of course. Moving in with the real Pete’s family (Margo Martindale and Peter Gerety), the fake Pete discovers that his new relatives happen to be bail bondsmen… not exactly the kind of folks a recently sprung criminal should be associating with. Now he’ll just have to be extra sneaky to avoid detection and get a full season pick-up. Because, as with all Amazon pilots, viewer feedback will help determine whether Sneaky Pete will live to sneak another day.