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[dodge]

If any of you have any new re this show's fate, I'd love to hear it. I seem to recall having read a report that it was 'definitely' renewed for a fourth season. Also that the fourth would, almost certainly, be the last. The date that sticks in my head is August 27. But I haven't seen the show listed in any report of new/returning shows.

Your news, your opinions are most welcome.

I've loved the show since the beginning. And though I had mixed opinions about season three, a final fourth season could change that. Imagine: a show that checked out in style, when the time was right. And imagine the classical structure:
1: The prison break
2) On the Run (The Great Escape)
3) Another prison, second break
4) On the run..but toward, not from: catching/bringing down the baddies?

I'm all ears, as CraigBond would say!

[dinovelvet]

Well dodge, the only nugget of info I have to offer is that Michael Rapaport has joined the cast. I think I remember reading about the late August premiere date too, and it runs until the end of the year, till it is time for Sir Bauer to return in January.

As well as the "on the run" antics, let's not forget about T-Bag, Belick, and Sucre, all still in prison, so at least some of the season will be a combo of In and Out of prison scenes.

[Professor Dent]

I originally heard the show was cancelled earlier this year but then read that it was renewed for a fourth season. The two hour premier is set for August 25th (it's still on Monday nights). I try not to get into detailed spoilers but the premise of this season is a jump forward in time & then telling some stories through flashbacks. Not sure how far forward in time the jump will be. I lost a little interest in the show during the second season but thought the third was good. Glad to see it will be back.

[dodge]

Thanks, Dino and Professor. This will be the first show I buy in DVD in its entirety. Hell, I may watch it once a year to savor, as a writer, the structural pyrotechnics. These cats know what they are doing. And I salute them for going out at the top of their game, not padding the show out for years...and yawns.

[AngryPolarBear]

I'm not having high expectations to this next season. The show started brilliant, but has decreased in quality ever since. The third season was weak and uninspiring.

[dinovelvet]

Fox just released their fall premiere dates : The T-Bag Family Fun Show will be back on Monday Sep 1st with a 2 hour premiere episode at 8pm!

[dodge]

Fox just released their fall premiere dates : The T-Bag Family Fun Show will be back on Monday Sep 1st with a 2 hour premiere episode at 8pm!

Thanks, Dino! How many episodes will they have in the can before the actors' strike? Oh Lord.

[dodge]

First teasers are appearing on TV. No way to say for certain, but the Dodgeometer says: Season Four, the last, will rock.

[dodge]

Introducing a new form of Spoiler Alert:

The new TV teasers hint at the return of a major character, presumed dead. This show is so special, and so important, to me that I've invented a new form of alert--called The Dodger Spoiler Wacker--to conceal the breakthrough news from any virgin eyes.
If you'd rather know than not know, here is all you need to do to read the shocking secret:

Tap the exclamation point highlighted in purple...and whisper Judo Chop's name:

!

There, now, wasn't that fun!

[dinovelvet]

Hmm, I just went searching and came up with this :

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

Is it really a spoiler if they're building their entire ad campaign around it? If "this character" is really back...oh jeez. Sounds kind of lame. On the plus side, looks like T-Bag is out and about in the world, which should be fun, his road trip adventures in Season 2 were the highlight of that year!

[Professor Dent]

Hmm, I just went searching and came up with this :

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

Is it really a spoiler if they're building their entire ad campaign around it? If "this character" is really back...oh jeez. Sounds kind of lame. On the plus side, looks like T-Bag is out and about in the world, which should be fun, his road trip adventures in Season 2 were the highlight of that year!

I will be interesting to see how they explain this one.

Spoiler

I really hope she doesn't have a twin sister or something like that.

I agree on the T-Bag road trip.

[dodge]

I'm hoping against all hope that T-Bag gets his own show after this!

[dodge]

For our small but exclusive club...

What's got me going about the teasers on the tube is this: the grim and gritty, sometimes heavygoing, series seems to be headed toward...you'd half-think...a somewhat lighter finale. Me, I'd love to see that. Not a U-turn, mind you. Not a violation of what's gone before. But, come on, these guys have been through hell. So leave us viewers with smiles on our faces. If T-Bag does get a stake through his heart, find a way to close the show that still leaves us whistling a somewhat merry tune.

[dodge]

The final season's drawing near...and tonight Fox is running a rerun of either the last or the next to last episode of season 3. Can't wait!

[dinovelvet]

The final season's drawing near...and tonight Fox is running a rerun of either the last or the next to last episode of season 3. Can't wait!

Might check that out so I know where we are. Hmm, but does the "plot" even matter at this point?

[dodge]

The final season's drawing near...and tonight Fox is running a rerun of either the last or the next to last episode of season 3. Can't wait!

Might check that out so I know where we are. Hmm, but does the "plot" even matter at this point?

they ran the next to last episode and run last season's finale next week. As for the plot, the teasers are driving me right up the wall: doesn't it look a little as if the entire gang is recruited as a sort of Dirty Dozen, with even T-Bag a loveable mutt?

I don't care--I want more now!

[dodge]

Monday, September 1, is the big night for the select group of members who follow this wonderful show (despite the rough going last season).

Entertainment Weekly says the series gets back in high gear with the 2-hour season opener. The Dirty Dozen direction I sensed is confirmed--and more than one major character will bite it in this show.

My confident prediction:
Bellick

Less confident:
The Evil Woman

A poignant prayer:
Please don't kill T-Bag or Mahone!

[dinovelvet]

Monday, September 1, is the big night for the select group of members who follow this wonderful show (despite the rough going last season).

Entertainment Weekly says the series gets back in high gear with the 2-hour season opener. The Dirty Dozen direction I sensed is confirmed--and more than one major character will bite it in this show.

My confident prediction:
Bellick

Less confident:
The Evil Woman

A poignant prayer:
Please don't kill T-Bag or Mahone!

Well I think T-Bag and the two brothers are safe, as those three ARE the show. Belick, Mahone, and Sucre are all fair game. I don't think Belick and Sucre have any real purpose left in the show? Mahone appears to be up to something, judging from last season's finale, but the other two are filler at this point. So I'll say Sucre, just for the hell of it.

[Professor Dent]

On the character getting killed off, tough to see any of the main crew being axed. There are way to many T-bag stories left to tell. I'm thinking it's LJ or Whistler's girlfriend.

[dodge]

Wellllllll! Talk about major surprises! I'll have to keep this spoiler free, but last night's rock'em episode is all the proof I need to know this show is back on track! Three die--and a big McGriddle for anybody out there who picked out all three. I'm pleased to say the Dodger failed to guess even one.

The story line's been opened up wide for a wild-ride season. And the show's classical structure is looking even better:
Season One: A: prison breakout.
Season Two: B: road trip.
Season Three: A: another prison breakout.
Season Four: B-C: combination road trip and series of break-INs.

No way of knowing if this show will be back for a fifth season. But if it does end after this year, I believe it will have been unique in its sensational structure.

[dinovelvet]

Wellllllll! Talk about major surprises! I'll have to keep this spoiler free, but last night's rock'em episode is all the proof I need to know this show is back on track! Three die--and a big McGriddle for anybody out there who picked out all three. I'm pleased to say the Dodger failed to guess even one.

Hmm, I'm struggling to remember who numbers 2 and 3 are. I guess we're talking about :

Spoiler

1. Whistler 2. Mahone's wife and son...? I don't really see any of them as "regulars" on the show, and there's no proof that 2 and 3 are even dead, given the stunts this show tends to pull. Whistler definitely ain't coming back from that, though.

Anyway, looks like they're yanking the show in an all new direction, sort of Burn Notice meets Mission Impossible, with a bunch of guys outside the law pulling off government-sponsored heists and schemes, and crazy T-Bag somewhere in the mix. As if there weren't enough Hannibal Lecter-like references about him, the Bagster actually now goes full-on Lecter!

[Professor Dent]

Great episode. I like the direction the season is headed with the Mission Impossible themed mission for the season. Also glad to see that I was completely wrong on who got killed off. I agree with dinovelvet, #'s 2 & 3 aren't regulars on the show. Those killings were more for shock value.

[dodge]

Mahone is looking more tragically doomed each episode. The Dodgeometer foresees an epic, fatal confrontation between him and Spooky Black Dude.

The Bagster's back in way-bad form, which spells certain autum fun.

Monday nights are great again.

[Professor Dent]

I completely forgot my favorite line of the episode - "What's the matter dude? Eat some bad mexican?"

[dodge]

Alert: per TV Guide, next week's episode may feature fireworks between Mahone and Scary Black Dude (anybody know his name?)

[dodge]

GOOD NEWS FOR T-BAG LOVERS:

Just caught the trailer for Transporter 3...costarring our own beloved psycho!

[Professor Dent]

Alert: per TV Guide, next week's episode may feature fireworks between Mahone and Scary Black Dude (anybody know his name?)

His name is Wyatt (played by Cress Williams). He's been in a lot of TV shows (NYPD Blue, Nash Bridges, Law & Order, ER).

[dodge]

Watched half of the show I'd taped last night. We're back in business big-time here. Anything can happen but I gotta say...Mahone has definitely got that ole doomed buzz about him.

[dinovelvet]

Yeah not bad. T-Bag now appears to be starring in his own little spinoff within the show. One of his best lines ever :

"The Nobbit...Add Momma to the train...Amateur screentests #9. We have a winner!"

[Professor Dent]

Good episode. I really like the direction this season is heading. T-Bag is just too funny. Mahone does have the brooding thing down pat & there is a nice little pact made at the end of the episode (spoiler free until you see it ).