Prison Break

FOX has a great show debuting this fall and it premiered last night...it's called Prison Break.

It has an awesome cast of up and coming actors...Robin Tunney (The Craft, Empire Records, Vertical Limit), Wentworth Miller (Underworld, The Human Stain), Dominic Purcell (who played Dracula in Blade: Trinity), Rockmond Dunbar (from the TV show Soul Food), and the legendary Stacy Keach!

The gist of the show is that Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is in jail serving a death sentence for killing the Vice President's brother. Lincoln's brother Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) believes his brother is innocent and has been framed. So he gets himself arrested by robbing a bank so he can be convicted and placed in the same jail as Lincoln. His end goal is to break his brother out of jail and clear his name. How will he do that? Well, Mikey is a structural engineer who has the blueprints to the very prison Lincoln is in. The FOX official website says this series is a cross between "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Great Escape" and I have to say, I definitely co-sign on that! Michael has 30 days to save his brother before Lincoln is put to death. Robin Tunney plays Veronica Donovan, a lawyer who used to date Lincoln in high school but left him for college and law school. She also gets suspicious by Michael's actions and start to do some investigating herself on the outside.

FOX is airing an encore of the 2-hour premiere on Thurs, 9/1 at 8pm EST. If you like suspense, action and are a fan of director Bratt Ratner (Rush Hour, Red Dragon, X-Men 3), you will not be disapppointed. Yes, it's not reality TV but this is just as good.

Here's a link to the official site so you can read the synopsis of it:

Prison Break Official Site