Prison Break Will Be Returning On Fox. Get All The Details

Yup! You read that right. The incredibly successful TV show, Prison Break, will be returning to TV after it ended 6 years ago in 2009.

The news has been confirmed by Entertainment Weekly who spoke directly to Fox bosses Dana Walden and Gary Newman. They both confirmed that they're developing a Prison Break event series that will feature both Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller, despite the fact that Wentworth's character, Michael died in the series finale in 2009.

Follow the jump to see what executives are saying about the show's return:

"I would describe it as a bit of a sequel, it picks up the characters several years after we left them in the last season of the show," Fox Chairman and CEO Walden told reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour.

"The brothers will be back. Some of the iconic characters from that show will be back. It definitely will address some questions that were set up at the end of the series and for a new audience… It'll start after where we left the Scofields in the final season.