Above is the TV Spot for season 4 of Prison Break, which I must admit I'm not particularly excited about. Season 2 had the whole manhunt angle to entice you, season 3 had its foreign prison change of setting to shake things up, but season 4 just doesn't have anything to grab you...
It looks like Michael and Linc will be embroiled in a revenge plot against The Company, while the supporting cast languish in Sona. Oh, and a familiar face will be returning to the show. I'm sure fans know who, but I won't drop a spoiler here. Suffice to say, it stretches credibility to breaking point, a la Tony Almeida's upcoming return in 24's seventh season...
In related news, the Prison Break spin-off Cherry Hill is still going ahead. The original plan was to introduce its lead female character in Prison Break, only for her to be incarcerated in the titular Cherry Hill female-only prison, and thus branch off into a spin-off. But that's apparently not going to happen now...
Exec-producer Matt Olmstead had this to say:
"We had trouble casting for it... then the [writers'] strike happened. By the time we resumed the season, we decided to scrap the idea of doing it that way. We're in the homestretch of writing it. Then we'll cast it, and then we'll hopefully shoot it and get it on the air."
Exec-producer Zack Estrin continued:
"The new show will be more like [how] CSI: Miami is to CSI and less a spin-off, because it will be a new character altogether."
