Hit Fox drama Jail break has enjoyed an unexpected climb of more than 100% on streaming platform Netflix, seven years after its divisive revival season. Debuting on Fox in 2005, the show starred Wentworth Miller as Michael Schofield, a young man who is deliberately imprisoned in order to break out his brother, Death Row inmate Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell), before his execution for a crime. You do. The show initially ran for four seasons consisting of 79 episodes, to largely positive acclaim, and ended with the TV movie Prison Break: The Final Break in 2009, before its controversial revival in 2017.
According to the reports in Term, Jail break has risen to the top spot of the Nielsen overall streaming list, after finding a new lease of life on Netflix. A successful run saw the series soar 111% from the previous week, after it landed on the streaming giant after seven years off air. The show was already available on Hulu before its arrival on Netflix, it was 1.6 billion minutes watched over 90 episodes, beating. The Umbrella Academy (1.4 billion), Blue (1.03 billion), Gray’s Anatomy (940 million), and House of the Dragon (935 million).
Why did Prison Break enjoy a new lease of life and could it lead to a second revival?
Jail breakThe fifth season revival aired in April 2017, with a total of nine episodes, and concluded in May, with Miller and Purcell reprising their roles from the show’s original run despite Michael Schofield’s apparent death at the end of the fourth season. The divisive nature of this plot point led to a mixed reception for the season, but it seems that the show has enjoyed a fresh audience and renewed popularity with its run on Netflix, probably benefiting from the binge streaming opportunity, as well as the high. -Active nature of the story and narrative well with audiences.
The show’s newfound success could lead to renewed interest in the possibility of a sixth season, which Fox initially green-lit in January 2016, but which never came to fruition, and in 2019, the company announced it had no plans to Forward with more Jail break. Additionally, in 2020 series star Miller confirmed that he has no plans to return to the Jail break franchise, but there’s a slim chance that season 6 could happen if the stars and studio decide to make a U-turn after the show’s streaming success.
Regardless of whether season 6 is green-lit, audiences may still get their fix as a Jail break Reboot is in development at Hulu, with The Outlaws Co-creator Elgin James as writer and showrunner. Whether the planned reboot will come to fruition remains to be seen, but it is likely that Hulu will want to develop more content to compete with Netflix and other streaming competitors. How long Jail breakHow long its run on Netflix may last is anyone’s guess, but for now the show seems to have captured a strong market share, and that bodes well for reboot chances.
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