Empire's 49th Greatest Television Show of all Time

Empire magazine readers recently voted Prison Break the 49th Greatest Television Show of all Time! Here is what the mag said about the show:

Okay, so we all know this show has not so much jumped the shark as leapt on its back and ridden it rodeo-style across the ocean, but there was a time when this was guilty pleasure in its purest form. The first season (the one which was actually set in a prison) found the saintly Michael Schofield covering himself in handy tattoos and incarcerated in the same chokey as his death row-sentenced brother. Amazingly, it lived up to the completely ridiculous premise, so it's a shame that the second and third seasons took the institutionalized concept out of its comfort zone.

Best Episode:
Riot Drills And The Devil Parts 1 and 2 (Season 1, Episodes 6-7), the episodes that really saw the show step up a gear as the evil T-Bag kick starts a full-scale cellblock riot. It's a breathless two-parter that sees Dr Sara Tancredi's infirmary under siege from jonesing inmates, Michael's best-laid plans under threat and T-Bag killing off an unfortunate prison guard.

Did you know:
If you were to have a tattoo like Michael Schofield's, it would take around 200 hours to finish and it would cost around £10,000.

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New TV Guide Scan

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Amaury Nolasco: "Sucre ends up as a prisoner in Sona"

Amaury Nolasco recently revealed to Prison Break Magazine that his character, Fernando Sucre, will end up behind bars in Sona sometime before the season 3 finale (February 18th). He said: "Sona is still going to remain a very important part of the show. Sucre ends up as a prisoner in Sona. Something inside is going to prove very important to Michael and Lincoln completing their mission. Once again they are going to have to rely on their friend Mr. Fernando Sucre."

This leads to my question, if there is no season 4, is Sona the last place we will see Sucre?

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Chris Vance in TV & Satellite Week (UK)

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Wentworth Miller - Arthelius Magazine Cover

Here is the front cover of the latest issue of Arthelius Magazine which features Wentworth Miller. The latest issue includes a special on Prison Break.

Wentworth Miller in German GQ Style Winter 2007/2008

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Prison Break Magazine - Issue #7 Cover

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Catching Up With Amaury Nolasco!

Here is an interview with Amaury Nolasco aka Sucre taken from my copy of Prison Break magazine. The interview is published in Issue #6 (US) and Issue #5 (UK). This interview was completed between the Season 2 and Season 3 hiatus. Check it out:

Amaury Nolasco has been a busy guy - he was working on the Transformers movie at the same time as filming Prison Break Season 2. However, he pauses to talk with us about good ol' Fernando Sucre. . .

Prison Break Magazine: Are you familiar with Prison Break magazine?
Amaury Nolasco: Oh, yes! I just read Issue 2, which is the one with my interview.

How was working in Dallas? I heard you say you were packing up your stuff to come back to LA. . .
I am going to miss it. I had a great time - that last year has gone fast, I have to say. We were having a good time - the fact that we were spread out and everybody was doing their own thing - we didn't get to work together much, so it went pretty fast and I'm going to miss that.

Have you been allowed to improvise much of Sucre's dialogue?
I kept cursing in Spanish and then they said, "No more." (Laughs)

Was the scene where Sucre is trapped under the log in the river (Season 2)one of the toughest things you've had to do so far?
I have to say, the day we shot that, it wasn't bad, because the weather was great and the water was cold, but then I had to do some reshoots on that and it was in a cold pool. So that's up there with the toughest things I've had to do. When we did the last episode of Season 1, it was freezing cold in Chicago. I'm from Puerto Rico, so anything below 70 degrees is cold for me. . .

So you're glad they relocated to Texas?
Exactly. (Laughs)

How did working on Transformers compare, physically, to working on Prison Break?
That was more grueling that anything. Two, three, four weeks of just running every single day, with combat boots, with all this gear on top of you - that was just really exhausting.

Was doing Prison Break good preperation for that?
Oh, absolutely (laughs). It was definitely boot camp.

What do you like best about the audience response to Prison Break?
You know what? I love that people come up with their own theories about Prison Break. Everybody thinks they know where the show is going. And it just thrills me, because everybody's got their own clues and they're great ideas, but [the writers] are doing a phenomenal job. I had a director tell me once, "There's nothing better than a dead writer" [because they don't object to changes]. Not in this case - I can't speak well enough about our writers. For an actor, writing is the key. And it's a roller-coaster. They take you up and down and the audience hasn't a clue [what's coming next].

Danay & Jodi Do Maxim

Prison Break hotties Danay Garcia and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe are the latest television celebrities to pose for Maxim magazine. The magazine has made a list of the sexiest women of Television 2007 and Danay and Jodi both made the list for their roles in the show as Sofia Lugo and Susan B. Anthony. Hopefully some scans will turn up soon.

New Nick Santora Interview

Prison Break writer discusses Sarah Wayne Callies' departure from the hit show - taken from the Official Prison Break Magazine Issue 7 on sale November 2007.

How long have you known that Sarah Wayne Callies was not returning to the show? Is that something that has been planned since last season?

Nick Santora: We didn’t know it was definite until sometime in the summer, so we just had to change our storylines and come up with something that was jarring, emotional, and would still drive our characters and make it clear that even though Dr. Sara Tancredi is gone from this world, she is not gone from the heart, mind, and soul of Michael Scofield.

I know some people were saying she can’t be gone because the network and studio released statements that she plays an integral part in season three. Well, she does. She is a motivation for Michael who is thinking of her constantly. So Sara is still kind of alive.

Sara is ultimately beheaded as a warning to Michael and Linc. What kind of conversations did you have about her fate?

Nick: Once we realized we didn’t have the actress, and hence didn’t have the character, we just bandied around a bunch of ideas which we thought were creatively satisfying. The one thing that was never an option was recasting her with a completely different actress so that there would be someone who looked nothing like Sarah Wayne Callies, running through Panama pretending to be Dr. Tancredi. We couldn’t do that or insult our audience so we knew we had to figure out a way to explain why she wasn’t on camera.

Michael has dealt with a lot of loss lately. Will Sara’s murder finally push him over the edge?

Nick: You are going to see a side of Michael you’ve never seen before, but it is not going to be Here’s the straw that broke my back. I can’t take it anymore. It is going to be Michael turning around and saying, Enough is enough! I am going to go out there and get my pound of flesh now!

And Michael Scofield is going to do things you never imagined he could do. It is going to flip a switch. He is still going to be the same character, people are still going to love him, but we are going to sympathize with him and know where he is coming from.

Source: PrisonBreakBuff