After sorting out scheduling conflicts with Warner Bros. Legends of Tomorrow and Fox's revived Prison Break series which both feature main stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell, Fox has finally confirmed a release date for the series' fifth season.
According to the network, the show will air in early 2017 and filming will start this August.
When the studio earlier confirmed the revival of the series, there was a need to adjust the target air date as both Miller and Purcell were involved in the superhero franchise. Miller was Captain Cold while Purcell plays Heatwave on Legends, and the show could not proceed without the Michael Scofield and Licoln Burrows on board.
It was not only the two lead stars who had to juggle schedules as Sara Wayne Callies, who played Sara Tancredi in the original series was also contacted to return but already had commitments to another show, Colony. Luckily, she committed to return to the franchise early this year.
Amaury Nolasco, Rockmond Dunbar, Paul Adelstein and Robert Knepper have also been confirmed to return to the franchise to reprise their major roles that made the show the cult hit that it was.
New faces will also add to the excitement of the series as Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein who will play Scott Ness, who is married to Sara so fans of Michael and Sara may have to deal with that blow when the show returns.
"Obviously we left off [the original series] with Michael presumably dead - he wasn't, he ended up working for this organisation. It got to the point where he couldn't do it anymore, and they threw him in a jail in Yemen to change his mind.
"He didn't change his mind, they set him up...," Purcell said in an interview.
It's expected that that Michael will call upon his old friends to help plot his escape and this will set the course for a fresh new conflict that the show has become known for.
Original series creator Paul Scheuring will reportedly write all nine episodes of the limited edition revival.
