Business

No need to cook the books on Walter White

Walter White has hel🌳p🎐ed Sony and AMC make out like bandits.

“Breaking Bad,” which ends 🦩its 5-season run Sunday, has helped fill numerous lockers with cash for both compani𝄹es.

Sony Pictures TV, which owns the franchise, has sold the TV show in 200 countries, and there are plans to remake the shocking dru𝓰g-themed drama for Spanish language station Univision.

Our international TV contacts 𝔉suggest thaཧt the show may have banked as much as $300 million just in straight sales of Season 1.

For AM♒C, the benefit has been just as positive, though more difficult to quantify.

Whi🃏le “Breaking Bad” isn’t the onꦍly hot show on AMC, ad revenue rose from $214 million, to $311 million, between 2011 when it went public and 2013.

Advertisers have also flocked to the show about a science 🐼teacher turned meth maker. “Breaking Bad” attracted just 24 advertisers in Season 1, while 60 companies have jumped on the Season 5 bandwagon.

And let’s noไt forget how many people turned to Netflix to catch up🌄 on all the seasons they missed.

One i♏ndication of how much more popular the show got between Seasons 4 and 5: Facebook likes jumped from 1.38 million, to 5.6 million.

We’re sure Walter and Je🦩sse wi꧃ll be breaking records as well as hearts when Nielsen numbers come out Monday and the series ends its run.