Bryan Cranston to Guest Star in Season Finale of FX's ARCHER

As first reported on The Huffington Post, 'Breaking Bad' star Bryan Cranston is set to guest star on the two-part season finale of the FX animated series ARCHER. The series is returning to the FX schedule on January 19th. The news was revealed by the show's creator and executive producer Adam Reed. The actor is set to portray Commander Drake, an "earnest, conscientious astronaut", who struggles to put down a mutiny aboard the space platform.

Cranston is perhaps best known for his roles as Walter White in the AMC drama series Breaking Bad, for which he has won three consecutive Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy Awards. He also starred as Hal, the father in the Fox situation comedy Malcolm in the Middle.

ARCHER is an animated, half-hour comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and the lives of its employees. Although their work of espionage, reconnaissance missions, wiretapping and undercover surveillance is daunting and dangerous, every covert operation and global crisis is actually just another excuse for the ISIS staff to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain.

The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin as the highly skilled and incredibly vain master spy, ‘Sterling Archer’; Aisha Tyler as Archer’s fellow agent and ex-girlfriend, ‘Lana Kane’; Jessica Walter as Archer’s domineering mother and the director of ISIS, ‘Malory Archer’; Chris Parnell as the easily intimidated comptroller-turned-ISIS-agent, ‘Cyril Figgis’; Judy Greer as Malory’s loquacious secretary, ‘Cheryl Tunt’; Amber Nash as the discordant director of human resources for ISIS, ‘Pam Poovey’; Adam Reed as the gay voice of reason at ISIS, ‘Ray Gillette’; Lucky Yates as ISIS’s possibly mad scientist, ‘Krieger’; and George Coe as Archer’s elderly and always exploiTed Butler, ‘Woodhouse.’