Patton Oswalt to appear on Vince Gilligan’s Battle Creek
At what point does something go from being a fun joke to being a cry for help? We ask because one aspect of Battle Creek—the new show from Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan and House’s David Shore—is getting uncomfortably close to the latter. As we’ve pointed out before, Battle Creek is full of weird names. Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters are starring as guys named Milton Chamberlain and Russ Agnew, while Kal Penn and Damon Herriman are playing detectives named Funkhauser and Niblet.