Breakout Kings
A&E has renewed freshman drama Breakout Kings for a second season, Deadline reports.
Production is set to start later this year and Season 2 could premiere as early as the...
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Jimmi Simpson and Serinda Swan
Breakout Kings may sound like a reincarnation of Prison Break — the executive producers are the same and a Prison Break character will even appear on the A&E series — but producers Nick Santora and Matt Olmstead insist it is not the same show.
"It's a completely different show," Santora said at Friday's Television Critics Association's winter preview sessions. "It's really not about people breaking out of prison; it's about...
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Laz Alonso
Breakout Kings, the fall pilot passed over by Fox, has found new life at A&E.
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The network has greenlit 13 episodes of the series from Prison Break producers Matt Olmstead and Nick Santora.
Kings centers on several convicts, played by Malcolm Goodwin and Jimmi Simpson, who are...
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Fox
Fox has added Breakout Kings to its fall development slate.
Kings follows a team of marshals and ex-cons who work together to catch criminals who have broken out of prison...
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