This sounds like a quality show and a much needed boost for the Fox network.
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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Partly out of necessity, FOX will get an exceptionally early start on its fall 2005 season by premiering its already-hyped drama "Prison Break" before Labor Day.
The series, which tells the story of an engineer (Wentworth Miller, "Popular") who purposely gets himself sent to prison in an effort to spring his death row-inmate brother (Dominic Purcell, "John Doe"), will open with a two-hour premiere Monday, Aug. 29, FOX says. It will move to its regular home at 9 p.m. ET Monday the following week.
The early start is due at least in part to the fact that "Prison Break," along with much of the rest of FOX's lineup, will have to take most of October off while the network broadcasts the major league baseball playoffs and World Series. Baseball's regular season ends Sunday, Oct. 2, and the playoffs will start a few days after that.
By starting the show so early -- three weeks before the likely Nielsen-sanctioned start date -- FOX will have at least six weeks to draw viewers into "Prison Break's" serialized story. The series has been on a fast track for some time; it earned a pickup early in this year's pilot season, and the network started promoting it during May sweeps.
In addition to Miller and Purcell, the show also stars Robin Tunney ("The In-Laws"), Stacy Keach ("Titus"), Amaury Nolasco ("2 Fast 2 Furious"), Sarah Wayne Callies ("Tarzan"), Peter Stormare ("Fargo") and Muse Watson ("I Know What You Did Last Summer").
Paul Scheuring ("A Man Apart") wrote the pilot and will executive produce, along with pilot director Brett Ratner ("X-Men 3"), Mike Pavone, Matt Olmstead, Marty Adelstein and Dawn Parouse.
06-10-2005, 07:56 PM
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