Will there be a Prison Break season 6? We tell you whether or not Prison Break has been renewed for a sixth season by FOX.
Will there be a Prison Break season 6 on FOX? Fans are waiting to hear whether or not FOX has renewed Prison Break for season 6 after bringing the popular series starring Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell back for season 5 this spring.
FOX has made no official decision about Prison Break season 6, but the network is interested in more new episodes.
Here’s what network co-chair and CEO Dana Walden had to say about the show’s future when FOX made its presentation at the upfronts earlier this month, per The Futon Critic:
"We would definitely consider doing more episodes. There’s nothing in the works right now.Really what prompted us to do this last installment was [series creator] Paul Scheuring coming in to us with a great take on where these characters are and what a season might look like. I know they’re thinking about it.It’s definitely not something we want to do every season. We want to make it special. So at the point they come to us with another idea, it will be seriously considered. We actually loved this season and the characters are beloved."
Would the actors consider coming back for season 6? Again, no one has officially made plans to return, but considering that the revival was a labor of love it’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t want to come back.
Prison Break season 5 reunited Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Paul Adelstein, Rockmond Dunbar, Amaury Nolasco and Robert Knepper — the show’s seven biggest stars — even though they had moved on to other projects like DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Colony.
Robert Knepper, who plays Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell, told us in our interview that he wanted to see how Prison Break season 5 did before talking about season 6:
"There’s already rumblings of people saying well, what about a next chapter? What about a spinoff? I’m like, let’s just do this one first and see how it goes."
Season 5 has gone well for FOX. The first two episodes were both over 5 million total viewers (live plus DVR), and more recently, the show was still around the high 3 million total viewers level for its fifth and sixth episodes. So the network has incentive to consider more, and if the actors are able to come back, the question really is why not do a Prison Break season 6?
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