Prison Break
American TV series
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| September 1 2024 | The series maintained its top streaming position with 1.188 billion minutes of viewing time. |
| August 11 2024 | Prison Break became the most-streamed program with 1.6 billion minutes of viewership. |
| August 4 2024 | Nielsen Media Research reported the series was watched for 758 million minutes, ranking high in streaming viewership. |
| July 2024 | Prison Break was added to Netflix, sparking a significant resurgence in viewership. |
| November 2023 | A reboot of Prison Break was reported to be in development for Hulu, written by Elgin James. This new series will be set in the same world as the original show but will feature different characters. |
| 2020 | Wentworth Miller stated he had no plans to return to the series. |
| August 2019 | Fox announced it had no current plans to revive Prison Break. |
| June 23 2019 | An official manga adaptation of Prison Break became available on the online service Piccoma, with artwork by Hikosuke Soyama and supervised by Twentieth Century Fox. |
| 2018 | Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle won the Leo Award for Best Stunt Coordination in a Dramatic Series for the Prison Break episode 'Ogygia' |
| January 2018 | Fox confirmed that season 6 was in early development. |
| June 27 2017 | Fifth season of Prison Break released on DVD. |
| May 30 2017 | Fifth season of Prison Break concluded. |
| May 15 2017 | The fifth-season revival of Prison Break debuted on Network Ten in Australia. |
| April 4 2017 | Prison Break returned for its fifth season, premiering with 3.83 million viewers. |
| April 4 2017 | Fifth season revival series premiered. |
| July 2016 | William Fichtner confirmed to not be returning as Alexander Mahone for the season. |
| July 11 2016 | Filming for Prison Break season 5 concluded in Vancouver. |
| June 2016 | Ramin Djawadi was confirmed to return as the composer for Prison Break season 5, after previously expressing his enthusiasm for potentially working on the revival of the series. |
| June 1 2016 | Dominic Purcell was seriously injured on the set in Morocco when an iron bar fell on his head, causing a broken nose and head injury. He was airlifted from Marrakesh to Casablanca for medical treatment. |
| April 2016 | Filming for the Prison Break revival began in Vancouver and several Moroccan cities including Rabat, Casablanca, and Ouarzazate. |
| April 22 2016 | Faran Tahir announced to play Jamil in the series. |
| March 2016 | Confirmation that Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar, and Paul Adelstein would reprise their roles in the revival series. |
| March 21 2016 | Paul Adelstein confirmed to reprise his role as Paul Kellerman. Inbar Lavi, Marina Benedict, and Kunal Sharma cast in major recurring roles. |
| March 16 2016 | Amin El Gamal cast in a recurring role as Cyclops. |
| March 9 2016 | Augustus Prew, Rick Yune, and Steve Mouzakis cast in recurring roles: Prew as Whip, Yune as Ja, and Mouzakis as Van Gogh. Sarah Wayne Callies confirmed to return as Sara Tancredi. |
| February 22 2016 | Mark Feuerstein cast as Scott Ness (later Jacob Ness), and Sarah Wayne Callies enters talks to return to the series. |
| January 2016 | Fox announced a nine-episode fifth season of Prison Break. |
| January 15 2016 | Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell confirmed to reprise their roles as Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows for Prison Break season 5. |
| August 7 2015 | Creator Paul Scheuring announced he would write the first episode of Prison Break season 5 and develop a style/tone bible to guide other writers. |
| June 2015 | Fox reported that a revival of Prison Break was in development, featuring the return of original series creator Paul Scheuring and actors Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell. |
| January 17 2015 | Fox Television Group chairman and CEO Gary Newman expressed interest in reviving Prison Break as an event series. |
| 2011 | Robert Knepper reprises his role as T-Bag in the A&E Network television series Breakout Kings, created by Prison Break writers Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora. |
| September 20 2010 | The Russian adaptation of Prison Break premiered on Channel One, featuring similar storylines and dialogue to the original series while introducing new elements reflecting Russian reality. |
| April 2010 | An announcement was made about adapting the TV series Prison Break for the Russian market. |
| April 2010 | An international adaptation of the TV series Prison Break was announced for Russia, titled 'Pobeg' (Побег). |
| March 30 2010 | Prison Break: The Conspiracy video game was released, featuring a protagonist named Tom Paxton sent to observe Michael Scofield at Fox River. The game included voices from most of the original cast members, excluding Sarah Wayne Callies. |
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