Prison Break Goes for Three
Prison Break fans can now triple their hunk-watching pleasure.
The critically praised Fox drama, starring Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, has scored an early pickup and will return next year for a third season.
Season one, which turned Miller into a Hollywood heartthrob, chronicled his staged bank robbery and plans to bust his bro Lincoln (Purcell), who he thought was wrongly convicted for murder, out of prison. Season two took viewers on an action-packed manhunt for the fugitives as they broke out of jail and absconded to Panama while ducking the FBI.
Paul Scheuring, the show's creator and executive producer, hinted that season three would tie up many loose ends and that one of the brothers may not make it through the season alive.
"They got scattered in the winds—their stories became separate and defused," Scheuring told the Hollywood Reporter. "They will come back together again, [and] their conflicts and interactions will return."
Details of season three are still behind bars, but all signs point to a prison redux, possibly into a South American slammer.
"It essentially will be a new chapter," Scheuring said. "It's going to return to the fundamental conceit, to the roots of what the show was about."
Contract negotiations and casting don't kick off until May, but Scheuring says the third season will bring back most of the regulars and introduce a few new characters, including two new female characters.
"The castmembers who will return next season know who they are—more than half will be back," Sheuring told TV Guide. "But I can't reveal more than that."
With the pickup, Fox is banking on another ratings-winning year. Season two saw Prison Break score the top spot in the hot 18-to-49 demographic during its Monday-night 8 p.m. time slot. The show joins House and Bones as the third action-packed early pickup of the year.
The series will have its second season finale Apr. 2 at 8 p.m. on Fox.





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