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Today's column was written by Matt Webb Mitovich.BREAKOUT HIT

Are you ready for some hoosegow? A whole lotta viewers — an average of 10.5 million, to be exact — opted to do time with Fox's Prison Break premiere, rather than sample some (preseason) Monday Night Football. Prison Break not only handily won its two-hour time period, it also was the evening's No. 1-rated program among adults 18 to 49 and inmates doing 15 to 20.

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Are you ready for some hoosegow? A whole lotta viewers an average of 10.5 million, to be exact opted to do time with Fox's Prison Break premiere, rather than sample some (preseason) Monday Night Football. Prison Break not only handily won its two-hour time period, it also was the evening's No. 1-rated program among adults 18 to 49 and inmates doing 15 to 20.