Here's everything we know about Fox's Prison Break season 5, including the latest trailers and streaming info.
Editor’s note: This article is our news hub for Fox’s Prison Break season 5 revival. All the latest news will be placed near the top.
Perhaps no show to return during television's revival era is as binge-worthy as Prison Break. With the series getting a second life thanks to new fans who are finding the series on streaming services (some reports peg it as one of the most-watched shows on Netflix), Fox decided to bring Prison Break back for an event series.
We're following the production of the show here, so stick with us for updates as we have them...
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Prison Break Season 5 Release Date And Where To Watch
Prison Break returned to Fox on Tuesday, April 4th at 9:00 p.m.
You can stream Prison Breakseason 5 on your computer, mobile device, or TV with the FoxNow app. New episodes are also available to stream on Hulu. Previous seasons are available on Netflix. As for the Live TV streaming services, YouTube TV, Sling, DirecTV Now, and PlayStation Vue all have Fox or Fox VOD.
Prison Break Season 5 Trailers
Prison Break Revival Cast
Stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell reprising their roles as Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows, respectively. The actors previously reunited forThe Flash and currently star together on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
Joining Miller and Purcell are Augustus Prew (The Borgias) and Rick Yune (Marco Polo), who will have “major recurring roles” according to a report fromTVLine. The site also broke news of Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) signing on to play the husband of Sarah Wayne Callies’ Dr. Sara Tancredi. Callies will also return.
Prison Break Season 5 Synopsis
Wondering what's going on plot-wise in the Prison Break revival? Here's the official, lengthy synopsis straight from Fox:
PRISON BREAK is back and ready for its biggest escape yet. In the thrilling new event series PRISON BREAK, original series stars Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar and Paul Adelstein are reunited for an all-new adventure spanning the globe and featuring the signature thrills and cliffhangers that were hallmarks of the original series when it aired on FOX from 2005-2009.
The original action drama centered on MICHAEL SCOFIELD (Miller, “The Loft”), a young man determined to save his convicted brother, LINCOLN BURROWS (Purcell, “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”), from death row by hatching an elaborate plan to escape from prison. In the all-new event series, filmed on location in Morocco, clues surface that suggest a previously thought-to-be-dead Michael may be alive. Lincoln and SARA (Sarah Wayne Callies, “Colony,” “The Walking Dead”), Michael’s wife until he was assumed dead, reunite to engineer the series’ biggest escape ever, as three of Fox River State Penitentiary’s most notorious escapees, SUCRE (Nolasco, “Telenovela”), T-BAG (Knepper, “Heroes”) and C-NOTE (Dunbar, “The Mentalist”), are pulled back into the action.
“Prison Break” was an immediate critical and ratings hit when it premiered on FOX in the fall of 2005, garnering Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Television Series – Drama and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama (Miller). The original producing team, including series creator Paul T. Scheuring, Neal Moritz, Marty Adelstein and Dawn Olmstead, will return to executive-produce the new series, with Scheuring serving as showrunner/writer.
"It picks up the characters several years after we left them in the last season of the show," Fox CEO Dana Walden said when the revival was first announced. "The brothers will be back. Some of the iconic characters from that show will be back. I don’t think [exec producer] Paul [Scheuring] knows exactly where he’s going over the 10-episode arc, but it definitely will address some questions that were set up at the end of the series for a new audience.”
Fox has been keen on bringing old properties back to life for limited runs. 24: Live Another Day was a ratings hit, as was The X-Files six-episode run. Prison Break ran four seasons from 2005 to 2009 on Fox. It was created by Paul Scheuring, who most recently was the showrunner for the short-lived ABC series Zero Hour. Scheuring will serve as the showrunner for the revival.
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