Scream Queens will return later this fall for season two, while Empire's own second season will continue with its spring premiere on March 30.
There aren't any additional story details yet - they can't possibly be expected to break out of any more prisons - but Fox officials announced more information would be announced relatively soon.įox also confirmed that two of its most successful scripted dramas, Empire and Scream Queens, would be renewed for their respective third and second seasons. Prison Break Season 4 is the the last season & returns to tv screens on Friday, Apin the US (8pm Eastern/7 pm Central) in the USA and and returns on Tuesday, Apin the UK.
The network also used its time on stage to confirm that actors Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell would be reprising their roles as brothers Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows in a new Prison Break event series.Īccording to the network, the new show will be based on the original Prison Break and will act as a continuation to the events that transpired at the end of the fourth season. In the new event series PRISON BREAK, original stars Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar and Paul Adelstein are reunited for an all-new adventure spanning the globe and featuring the signature thrills and cliffhangers that were hallmarks of the series when it aired on FOX from 2005-2009.
The 24: Legacy announcement wasn't the only news to come out of Fox's Television Critics Association conference panel. While none of the original cast will be returning, all three executive producers, including former showrunner Howard Gordon, are onboard for the project. There's currently no word on potential actors for the role, but Entertainment Weekly reports that producers are currently looking to cast an African-American actor. It's during his return home that this new character contacts the CTU for help, preventing one of the largest plotted terrorist attacks on U.S. Unlike the original 24, which followed Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer - a member of the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) in Los Angeles - the new series will focus on "a military hero's return to the U.S and the trouble that follows him back," according to a press release.
According to Entertainment Weekly, producers for the series confirmed during Fox's press conference at the Television Critics Association festival today that it had ordered pilot for a spinoff series, 24: Legacy.Īlthough the series will continue its tradition of basing each episode in the one hour span of a day, it will star an entirely new cast of characters. 24 is returning to Fox, the network announced today.