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Fox Gives Fourth Consecutive Sentence To PRISON BREAK !!
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“Prison Break,” the highly serialized drama from director-producer Brett Ratner (“Rush Hour 3”) and writer-producer Paul Scheuring (“A Man Apart”), will be back next season, Fox announced Monday.
The fourth season will follow the characters after they escape a Panama prison. Perhaps in the fifth season they’ll bust out of an alien prison on another planet.
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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my first first?
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..about being "that guy." I had my moment and I'll move on from there. Thank you. But seriously, how much more blood can they get from this stone?
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And it will be awesome.
On another note, anybody have any news on Reaper's renewal status? -
Yes!!!!!!!
William Fitchner and Robert Knepper baby!
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season 1 was very good
season 2 was total action fitchner added so much, and being totally open and on the run made the story flow better.
season 3 - interesting but certainly the weakest, lot of the plot could have been told in half the time.
I think if you can look past the ridiculousness of the situations with the show you can get some great guilty pleasure entertainment from it. Non-stop action, never a boring episode. -
how could anyone say two sucked and find three average. Two was the perfect way to continue the story after season 1 and three was sorely disappointing.
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This show needs an adequate ending and if it would have stopped at season 3 I would have been mighty pissed off. The show gets a lot of flack, but honestly, who needs realism when you have well-developed characters, solid acting performances, and constant action with twists aplenty? Not me. Not every show can be perfect in all areas and Prison Break is great in enough areas to keep my attention span.
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The premiere was absolutely brilliant. Sure, it dragged a little, but season 2 was more better overall than season 1, which was also great, but season 2 blew it away.As for season 3, it had its moments (woohoo for the box!!), but it did drag far too much. Here's hoping they get back to the craziness of season 2 with season 4!
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kicks prison break's ass
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hasn't been good since the first half of season 3.
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There was an improvement in ratings from last week to this week (people finding the new timeslot), and it's holding a lot of Smallville's audience. So far it's looking better for renewal than it did before it came back, but this week will be the real test (I think it's the only new show in its timeslot this week)
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Fox, why continue to torture us with the ropy, candy corn filled and melted caramel turdfest known as Le Break de Prison????
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Have them go after the Company. Change the name of the show. Two prisons was enough.
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CW announced two weeks ago that The Reaper would not return next season, due to poor ratings. Go to the futon critic for details, they should have the scoop in their archives.
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i was a fan for seasons 1 and 2, watched every episode, own the dvds, but always realized that what i was watching was total shit. in a mostly good way. i only saw maybe a third of season 3 and probably won't be watching season 4. enough is enough. two seasons should have been enough to tell this story... if fox doesn't renew SCC i'm gonna be pissed.
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My favorite part was when they used a tape recording of gun fire to fool the bad guys. It was like something out of the A-team.
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Perhaps a two - night movie to tie up lose ends -- like capping "Company Susan" in the ass. She''l probably OD secondary to excess makeup.. Weren't they talking about some "Caged Heat" women's prison spin-off? Which characters? Sex-Changes? Geldings?
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It was the perfect bookend to the escape, with a fugitive style chase across the country (only with like 8 different fugitives). Finchter was a complete badass, there was a lot of cool twists and action. Even the panama stuff was great, until the idiot producers decided to prolong the show and have them caught again. What a stupid cop-out. They should have ended 2 with them escaping, and then they could have done 3 about their revenge on the company or something.
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http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch.aspx?id=reaper (remove spaces)
The Programming Insider (at mediaweek) is still talking about the possibility of renewal, and I can't imagine he wouldn't know that CW cancelled it. -
the highly anticipated remake of the 1987 Fox sit-com "women In Prison" that was scheduled to replace "Prison Breaks"?
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Here's how I would have done the third season. It's a year later (or whatever). Michael and Lincoln are free, living in some wonderful tropical country.
Some hot chick approaches Michael, having tracked him down. She needs his help to get her brother OUT of a prison and needs Michael to break IN.
Throw in a few "twists." The prison is some new supermax-homeland-security-
super-impenetrable prison et cetera. The guy's sister insists her brother is innocent, but he turns out to be a guilty. And he's into something real nasty which Michael has to stop near the end of the season. Michael also bags the hot chick.
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Michael has to hire some of the other characters to help him break into the prison, naturally.
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Yikes. But Jezebel James *is* gone; http://tinyurl.com/9n5r8
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Starting to seem like the "dammit" drinking game from 24 has a competitor....
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Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for that God awful laugh track.
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...PB has only had two prisons. I fail to see how that's overkill...
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That bitch...
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The laugh track certainly didn't help matters.
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I specifically recall this show's creators and cast saying that the premise naturally had a life of two or three seasons at most, and that they intended to adhere to that to maximize the show's quality. So much for that.
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I miss her lots on Heroes. I admit I just don't have any desire to see Reaper. Not my cup of tea.
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as opposed to, say, just ordinary serialising?
I only watched the first episode of Prison Break. I like dumb action movies but the stupidity of Prison Break made my head hurt. How this managed to get a fourth frakking season when Fox couldn't give Firefly more than 13 eps is one of the enduring mysteries of television.
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Just over at Futon Critic, didn't even know this was coming! Ack, I may have to end my G4 shunning.
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Yeah, I'm out of it a little today. :)
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If there was a dictionary handy with the phrase 'Guilty pleasure TV show', Ninja Warrior would be next to it. And the original Japanese announcing makes it over-the-top LMAO. Plus they have Attack of the Show, and Olivia Munn is yowza.
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He should be all over this PB news.
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The first season was about how this guy was purposefully going into the hardest-to-break-out-of prison in the world then somehow do the impossible and break out of it. Now he's in some ratty 3rd world rusted barnyard prison where people can go wherever they want and even have access to some underground tunnel system that basically gives them unlimited escape options.
To a viewer like me, I didn't understand how Michael wouldn't be able to break out of this place in half a day. That's why I stopped watching.
Since I stopped watching after season 3 ep 1, I probably missed some episodes that claimed Michael actually had to stay in the prison for some reason, but I don't care - that basic season 3 premise just doesn't work structurally or logically. I'm always up for dumb fun, but you gotta make it somewhat believable. -
He was the coolest thing in Season 2. And then, when he came back for Season 3, he became half the man he was before. Sure, he had his drug problems and all the other stuff but they totally fucked up his character. Gone was the criminal-killing Sherlock Holmes style FBI badass, and in came the man with puppy-eyes who trailed around after the others and more or less begged them to take him with them. Terrible.
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Lincoln is trapped in a prison in Middle Earth. Michael has to break him out without the big eye seeing, by standing on the shoulders of some hobbits and getting help from a tree man.
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Lincoln is trapped in Azkaban. Michael has to break him out using Sirius Black's old plans, an owl and that invisible cloak that Harry Potter uses all the time.
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Lincoln is trapped in Guantanomo Bay. Michael has to break him out with help from Harold and Kumar, using a straw, some chewing gum and a letter from Hilary Clinton.
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Lincoln is trapped in Guantanomo Bay. Michael has to break him out with help from Harold and Kumar, using a straw, some chewing gum and a letter from Hilary Clinton.
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...they'll stumble onto a time machine, go back to the 1930's and bust out of Alcatraz...
Oh, and... This is still on? -
*perks up at IGN.com's belated season 2 review of Heroes posted today, with regard to Ellectronica Mars*:
"The introduction of Elle (magnificently and dementedly portrayed by fan favorite Kristen Bell) gave characters like Claire and Peter a great counterbalance and a personality strong enough to warrant plenty of great interactions." -
http://tinyurl.com/32dsxy I'd let her kill me or my loved ones any day!
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Why not?
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From what I understand it's become so completley convoluted and far fetched that it's starting to resemble the NBC soap "Passions" in the eye-rolling department.
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I think sooooooo.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=CeppHXJA9iE
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that premise for what season 3 could have been is sillly...nothing personal....i doubt michael would break into another prison just for some hot chick...he got arrested and sent to the first one to save his brother....he got sent to the other and agreed to break out of it because of sara...there has to be some reason he does what he does...i doubt the hottest nakedest chick in the world could make him go into another prison voluntarily...i really dont care that the name of the show really doesnt fit if its not him breaking out of a prison, but i really dont care....this is one of THE best shows on TV....the suspense that the show holds from commercial break to commercial break is astounding.....go season 4 and season 5
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We need the hot chick to break into prison. A womens prison. With Gina Gershon as the warden. And the Olsen twins as wrongly accused inmates.
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I swear, homeboy seriously needs to smile or emote more than that stupid mean look he has on his mug every episode or on every billboard that I see him on. How about showing those pearly whites once in a while? You might actually get roles that don't pan to the lowest common denominator.
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This is a show where the main character ended up in another prison.... in Panama... with his old prison guard... and the agent who tracked him down...
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...that one day writers will create series with a beginning, a middle and an end? In most sereis these days, it seems they're writing 'em week-by-week until nobody cares anymore, at which point they hastily put 'em to bed. Disappointing.
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If they're not running from someone, they're in prison, fighting some demagogue prisoner who has taken over the entire pen and has access to guns and shit inside the prison!! The fuck?!? So yeah, they kill demagogue leader and barely escape, only to have someone coming after them. They eventually get captured and sent to, yes you guessed it, another hardcore prison with yet another demagogue who owns the respect of everyone, including the guards, who actually work for him. Or maybe this time it's a homicidal warden.
Bottom line, this show sucks. The only thing worth watching is Jodi Lynn O'keefe. You want a bad ass warden? Go watch Shawshank Redemption. He'll cast you down with the sodomites. You'll feel like you're being fucked by a train. That's a motherfuckin warden and a prison to boot!!! -
if this show keeps going, no reason not to renew the hotness of Summer Glau
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Unfortunately only one with the blood of the house of el can get out. So he makes plans to extract Superman's blood.
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Mar 25, 2008 2:40:29 AM CDT
"Perhaps in the 5th season they’ll bust out of an alien prison o
by shan
That's possibly already done in a film called "Cube" ... Then again who knows where the Cube was (well a few people do but they're not telling). They might as well do that for the 5th season though, given how bizarre it has been getting ...
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How about... trying to think stupid... Michael is hired to design and run a new high-tech prison with the world's most dangerous prisoners. Also it's turn out Sarah wasn't really dead and she comes to visit Michael. But he is betrayed by some dude and the prisoners take control! Then Michael and Sarah must escape from the prisoners and his own prison. The only problem is Michael designed a "super AI prison program" called C.A.G.E. that controls the prison. It's so brilliant that even Michael doesn't think he can escape...
Is that stupid enough? That hurt just writing it... -
And with that I don'T mean that the season ends with a new cliffhanger and gets cancelled, I'm talking about a REAL ending.
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Alien planet! I can use the comedy this early in the AM. Thanks! Really silly series by the way.
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I'm sure some of the fans already knew this?
This show was based on The Great Escape - you know, the Steve McQueen film? So the plan was FIRST SEASON: they're in prison and they break out - SECOND SEASON: they're on the run and get recaptured one by one...
Now... the first season did so well, just like with The Matrix, TPTB said oh we gotta have MORE! So they created a SEASON THREE: they're back in prison...
The first two seasons were planned out - like, say (dare I say it?) Lost - but the third season (and it seems the fourth too) were tacked on to make a great premise (The Great Escape) erm... "even better" *cough*
Now, say what you will for the credibility of this show (absolutely you have to suspend your disbelief) but damn if they didn't keep up the suspense ALL THE WAY THROUGH from S01E01 to S03E13 !
Highly serialised indeed! And quite entertaining, I must admit!
OK so where can they go in S4? Personally I think they need to get Snake Plissken in there somewhere, no? They are escaping from LA this time right? -
For some weird reason they should try to break into a prison. Maybe to rescue someone or get something. Reverse it.
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First off what I love about this show is that, its so fucking staright faced. There is very little humor and everyone acts like they are going for an oscar. Love it.
Now where I see this show going, as it becomes the M.A.S.H of our generation, hopefully we wrap up the brothers with different last names story up in season 4 or 5. Then some new group of convicts go to jail and Micheal becomes there mentor to teach them how to escape ala Dr. Hannibal Lecktor in Red Dragon. You can call it Prison Break: The new Generation
OR Micheal writes a book and gets rich again and someone hires him to break there whatever out of prison (kind of like JP III), like they trick him into doing it (i guess that was season 3).
OR Micheal is hired by the government to bulid Prisons or go around from prison to prison like a consultant. And just turn it into a reality show like something on TLC. -
Is that the writers obviously thought they were not getting pass season one. HEY lets make our main character covered in Tatoos! Ummm whats that? Write a second season.... shit, well whatever he'll just run through the hot sun and swim with a long sleeve T-shirt on. I bet Wentworth Miller was like SHIT I have to be fucking covered up head to toe all damn day. Like the tatoos were a cool idea, but a coded letter to yourself woud've worked just as well. Also I love just how fucking stupid Lincoln Burrows is and what a dick he is. Oh yeah thanks long lost bro for saving my ass... opps got your girlfriend killed, OH well, let me punch some people. Also I don't know who I hate more Susan B. Anthony or Ben from Lost? At least lughead Lincoln beats her up sometimes and Micheal gets the upperhead, while the dipshits on Lost fucking let Ben rule their world. Seriously how long are we going to pretend that someone wouldn't have killed Ben or Susan by now?
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Why not just turns this into a reality show starring Lane Garrison and he has to escape from prison. Actually make is a competion between him and Roger Avary!
Either way this show can only benefit from the addition of Vinnie Jones in the cast some how (of course he'll be bad) and he is already buddies with Brett Ratner. Why don't Brett Ratner and McG just create a production company and create everything for hollywood? You think those two guys are best friends? Or do you think they hate each other becuase for the most part they are clones? With Bret being the more serious one. Say what you will about there movies, but for my money Monday Night is the best night of the week because of these two. Not Kring, not because of Cameron, or that crap Journeyman you all would cup balls for to get back on the air. Chuck and Prison Break. -
Maricruz is fucking Matt Damon! She got tired of waiting for your unrepentant con ass!
Michael needs to take down the company (*GASP* It goes all the way up to the President! Who'da thunk it?!), find out that Sarah has been alive the whole time, and then end the series with them FINALLY getting around to the sideways shuffle. -
Season 1 rocked. Ok, it required a big time suspension of disbelief at times, but it was entertaining. So too was much of season 2, which certainly had its moments. However, things got way, way, way too contrived at the end of season 2 in order to arrange for everyone to end up in the same prison half a world away, and it probably really jumped the shark maybe 1/2 - 2/3rds through.
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I find myself nodding off to sleep sometimes when watching Sarah Connor Chronicles. And PB season 3 was better than Heroes season 2. And to those above who think the guy who plays Scoffield is a terrible actor, you haven't seen anything until you see him in Dinotopia. It's muy terrible!
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But it's reassuring all the same to get something in writing. There is no way even the cruel corporate heads at Fox would drop this series with Michael driving forever towards Susan's location to pull the killswitch on her. As far as a fitting end for Susan, I'm REALLY hoping the writers consider my idea and have Susan thrown into Sona for failing only to be raped to death by sexually starved thugs.
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Bill Kim was WAY scarier, even without those fucked up ice-grey eyes. I liked what they did with Kellerman and I didn't mind Mahone, because he was trying to kick his habit, after all...
but what they did to Bellick was unforgivable! He wasn't just a BADASS in the first two seasons - he was SMART. They just didn't seem to know what to do with him in Sona, so they turned him into a complete sissy with shit for brains!
At least Mahone got to keep his intelligence!
Even T-bag went from being bad-guy of bad-guys to... what, a gopher? -
I don't ever have to take you calling me a troll seriously again now that you've shown yourself. You post two or three comments in a few days' span while I'm off working my ass off to make some serious green, asking me why I'm not posting in a thread about my favorite show and you even resort to calling me 'bro', which is still a friendly term last time you checked. Then, I do, and you proceed with showing what a fucking jackass you are with your carefully prepared little flame-jab. With the workload I'm carrying now, this talkback drama is the most miniscule thing running through my mind right now. You are smaller than an ant and even less significant. Prison Break still rules. Lost still only has a good episode every once in a while. Accept it.
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You are graceful in your defeat, sir.
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March 25: Snowpuff writes up ludicrous plot for Season 4 where Sara is not actually dead
March 28: Press reports that Sara will return for Season 4
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