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It’s been seven years since we’ve seen Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller, “Resident Evil: Afterlife,” 2010) and Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell, “John Doe”), but they make their muchanticipated return in “Prison Break: Resurrection,” a nine-episode limited event series. Premiering Tuesday, April 4, on Fox, the revival also stars returning castmates Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Walking Dead”), Amaury Nolasco (“Telenovela”), Robert Knepper (“Heroes”) and Rockmond Dunbar (“Soul Food”).
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a ‘Break’
By Cassie Dresch TV MediaYou’d think there are only so many times one could break out of prison. For Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows, though, it’s practically become a way of life, and after seven years, the brothers are back for another improbable escape. The limited event series, “Prison Break: Resurrection,” premieres the first of its nine episodes Tuesday, April 4, on Fox.
Dominic Purcell (“John Doe”) and Wentworth Miller (“Resident Evil: Afterlife,” 2010) are both back for this revival series, playing Lincoln and Michael, respectively, as are Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Walking Dead”), Amaury Nolasco (“Telenovela”), Robert Knepper (“Heroes”) and Rockmond Dunbar (“Soul Food”).
But wait, you may say, how is it possible that Miller is back? Didn’t Michael die in the then-series finale in 2009? The short answer is yes ... and no. The longer answer is at the time, when it seemed that “Prison Break” had been locked down for good, everyone was operating on the assumption Michael was, indeed, dead. The fiercely loyal brother of Lincoln had finally succumbed to hypothalamic hamartoma, as diagnosed by Sara (Callies).
It was a tragic end for, arguably, the series’s most beloved character, but as then-executive producer Matt Olmstead said in 2009 following the finale, it made sense for Michael to die.
“It started as a discussion with Wentworth around season 2,” Olmstead told Entertainment Weekly. “He brought up a good point: His character’s hands are as dirty as anyone’s. If you look at the initial act that he committed — robbing a bank to get into prison to break his brother out — there were ramifications to that; a lot of people got hurt. Not by them, but when they rattled the cage of the company that was after them, the body count started to pile up. Michael was aware of this, and we’ve addressed his guilt throughout the show.”
“But at a certain point, it felt nobler to have the character die so
that others could live,” he continued. “It just felt a little weird for us to have Michael and Sara holding hands on the beach walking away — though that would be gratifying in the moment. Knowing that there was pretty much a scorched path behind them in terms of what happened, [having him die] balanced the books for us. He also paid the ultimate sacrifice and, in doing so, everyone else close to him was able to live, including his child.”
We get to meet Michael’s child, Mike Jr., in “Resurrection.” Christian Michael Cooper (“When Calls the Heart”) plays the progeny, and delivers one of the most obvious bits of foreshadowing in the trailer. “What was my father like? My real father,” he asks his mom. “He was like a storm,” a choked-up Sara replies, “appearing suddenly out of a clear blue sky, and then disappears just as quickly.” Little Mike, ever hopeful, says: “The storms, they can come back. Can’t they?”
It’s established fairly quickly in the new series that Michael is alive and incarcerated in Yemen. Lincoln gets some information from T-Bone (Knepper) to that effect, and immediately begins to formulate a plan. But don’t assume that these nine episodes will all be about escaping prison.
“With this season, each character has, to a greater or lesser ex-
tent, tried to get away from themselves. They’ve tried to be a better person, a different wife or a different brother,” Callies said in a Q&A after a private screening last month. “In a way, this is a season about not being able to escape. We try, we fuss, we fight and wrestle with that soul, but at the end of the day there is something in you that is essential. I think that’s important, too, because they’re all trying to find a way to a better version of themselves.”
“We’re going to have escape and we’re going to have action and adventure and twists and all that, but at the core of it is a story of relationships,” series creator and season 5’s showrunner Paul Scheuring said in the same Q&A period. “Wentworth and Sarah’s relationship was nipped in the bud at the end of season 4. It was unrealized, especially because his child was born, so there’s a lot of unfinished business in that relationship. In a lot of ways, that’s the core runner through this series — that motivation to make that relationship right.”
How — or if — that relationship and many of the other relationships are made right remains to be seen. Questions also linger about whether this will actually be it for “Prison Break,” or if it will pull a “24,” a series that spawned a kind of spinoff (“24: Legacy”) following the success of the 12-
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10:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
FSN Twins Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
Saturday, April 8
8:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (6:00)
FSN Backroads With Ron and Raven (0:30)
GOLF Live From the Masters (Live) (6:00)
8:30 a.m. (29) WFTC Sports Stars of Tomorrow (0:30)
FSN Larry Smith Outdoors (0:30)
NBCSN Premier League Live (Live) (0:25)
8:55 a.m. NBCSN EPL Soccer (Live) (2:05)
9:00 a.m. ESPN2 30 for 30 (2:00)
FSN John Gillespie’s Waters & Woods (0:30)
1:30 p.m. (5) KSTP World of X Games (1:00)
(11) KARE Premier League Goal Zone (Live) (0:30)
2:00 p.m. (7) KCCO Golf Round 3 Masters Tournament. Augusta, Ga. (Live) (4:00)
(11) KARE NHL Hockey Was. at Bos. Boston, Mass. (Live) (3:00)
ESPN NCAA Football (Live) (2:00)
ESPN2 30 for 30 Shorts (0:30)
GOLF Feherty (1:00)
SPIKE Bellator MMA (2:15)
2:30 p.m. (5) KSTP 30 for 30 (1:30)
ESPN2 NCAA Basketball College Slam Dunk & 3 Point Championship. Phoenix, Ariz. (0:30)
HBO 2 Days: Vasyl Lomachenko (0:30)
3:00 p.m. (9) KMSP (15) KVRR IMSA Auto Racing SportsCar Championship Bubba Burger Grand Prix. Long Beach, Calif. (Live) (2:00)
ESPN2 SportsNation (Live) (1:30)
4:00 p.m. ESPN 30 for 30 (1:00)
FSN Twins Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
4:15 p.m. SPIKE Kickboxing Card TBA Bellator. (2:15)
4:30 p.m. ESPN2 30 for 30 (1:30)
FSN Due North Outdoors (0:30)
NBCSN Horse Racing Wood Memorial/ Bluegrass Stakes. Queens, N.Y. (Live) (2:00)
5:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
FSN UEFA Soccer Round of 16 Leg 2 Champions League. Bayer vs. A. Mad (2:00)
5:30 p.m. GOLF Golf Channel Academy (0:30)
6:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 30 for 30 (1:00)
GOLF Live From the Masters (Live) (2:00)
6:30 p.m. (29) WFTC Soccer Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
NBCSN NHL Live! (Live) (0:30)
1:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 NFL Live (Live) (1:00)
2:00 p.m. ESPN Golf Round 1 Masters Tournament. Augusta, Ga. (Live) (4:30)
ESPN2 NBA: The Jump (Live) (0:30)
GOLF Feherty (1:00)
2:30 p.m. ESPN2 SportsNation (Live) (1:00)
3:00 p.m. FSN Twins Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
GOLF Feherty (1:00)
3:30 p.m. ESPN2 Jalen & Jacoby (0:30)
8:30 p.m. ESPN2 NCAA Hockey Frozen Four Semifinal Division I Tournament. Chicago, Ill. (Live) (2:30)
9:30 p.m. TNT NBA Basketball Min. at Por. Portland, Ore. (Live) (2:30)
9:45 p.m. NBCSN NHL Overtime (Live) (0:45)
10:30 p.m. FSN Wild Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
Friday, April 7
9:00 a.m. ESPN First Take (Live) (2:00)
11:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
ESPN2 The Dan Le Batard Show (Live) (1:00)
FSN NHL Hockey Min. at Col. Denver, Colo. (2:00)
Noon (9) KAWE Sit and Be Fit (0:30)
ESPN2 Outside the Lines (Live) (0:30)
12:30 p.m. ESPN2 NFL Insiders (Live) (0:30)
1:30 p.m. FSN Midwest Outdoors Magazine (0:30)
NBCSN RFU Rugby English Premiership. Wor. vs. Sale (Live) (2:30)
2:00 p.m. ESPN Golf Round 2 Masters Tournament. Augusta, Ga. (Live) (4:30)
9:30 a.m. FSN Midwest Outdoors Magazine (0:30)
10:30 a.m. FSN Lindner’s Angling Edge (0:30)
11:00 a.m. ESPN2 NCAA Baseball Vander. at S.C. Columbia, S.C. (Live) (3:00)
FSN Fish Addictions TV (0:30)
NBCSN Premier League Live (Live) (0:30)
11:15 a.m. HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (1:00)
11:30 a.m. (11) KARE EPL Soccer Chels. at Bou. Bournemouth, United Kingdom (Live) (2:00)
FSN Destination Polaris (0:30)
Noon (9) KMSP (15) KVRR NASCAR Pre-Race (Live) (0:30)
FSN Jason Mitchell Outdoors (0:30)
12:30 p.m. (7) KCCO The Masters: Magical Moments (0:30)
(9) KMSP (15) KVRR NASCAR Auto Racing Xfinity Series Cowboy 300. Fort Worth, Texas (Live) (2:30)
FSN Twins Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
1:00 p.m. (7) KCCO The Masters: Legends of Magnolia Lane (1:00)
FSN MLB Baseball Min. at Chi.W. Chicago, Ill. (Live) (3:00)
7:00 p.m. (5) KSTP NBA Countdown (Live) (0:30)
(29) WFTC MLS Soccer MIN at Dal Frisco, Texas (Live) (2:00)
ESPN NCAA Hockey Frozen Four Championship Division I Tournament. Chicago, Ill. (Live) (3:00)
ESPN2 30 for 30 (2:00)
FSN Becoming Wild (0:30)
NBCSN NHL Hockey Was. at Bos. Boston, Mass. (Live) (2:45)
7:30 p.m. (5) KSTP
NBA Basketball L.A. C. at S.A. San Antonio, Texas (Live) (2:30)
FSN Wild Live Pre-game (Live) (0:30)
8:00 p.m. FSN NHL Hockey Min. at Ariz. Glendale, Ariz. (Live) (2:30)
GOLF Live From the Masters (10:00)
9:00 p.m. (29) WFTC Soccer Post-game (Live) (0:30)
HBO Boxing Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Jason Sosa World Championship. Oxon Hill, MD (2:45)
9:45 p.m. (9) KMSP Fox 9 Sports Now (0:15)
10:30 p.m. FSN Wild Live Post-game (Live) (0:30)
Brainerd Daily Dispatch, MN: Sports Apr 2, 2017 to Apr 8, 2017
Sunday, April 2
1:30 p.m. TRAV Bizarre Foods:
2:00 p.m. (8) WDSE A Chef’s Life TRAV Bizarre Foods
2:30 p.m. (8) WDSE The Mind of a Chef
3:00 p.m. (8) WDSE The Great British Baking Show
TRAV Bizarre Foods
5:00 p.m. TRAV Food Paradise
6:00 p.m. TRAV
By Andrew Warren TV MediaWhether it’s coupons that offer huge markdowns on pricey necessities or loyalty points that add up to free groceries, supermarkets have a lot of tricks up their sleeves to earn customers’ loyalty and keep them — and their money — coming back. Now, Flavortown Market has its own special promotion to lure back past “guests”: a chance at $35,000.
The supermarket featured in Food Network’s “Guy’s Grocery Games” invited 16 previous winners back for a chance to win the
fast-paced cooking competition a second time, and to compete against the best of the best. The “Supermarket Masters” tournament has been underway for a few weeks now, and this week the last of the final four is chosen. The new episode airs Sunday, April 2, on Food Network.
Each episode of the tournament features four returning “Triple-G” winners who duke it out in a culinary battle of the titans, with each winner checking out $10,000 richer.
But that nice $10,000 isn’t all they’ve been competing for. In next week’s finale — airing Sunday, April 9 — the four winners race down Flavortown Market’s aisles one last time, and the ultimate winner is named the true Supermarket Master and takes home an additional cash prize that could be as big as $25,000.
Naturally, a “Guy’s Grocery Games” tournament needs a Guy, and Guy Fieri is managing the floor, as always, giving the culinary competitors their challenges and providing running commentary as they dash through the aisles.
As for judges, Aarti Sequeira (“Aarti Party”), Marc Murphy (“Chopped”) and Troy Johnson (“Crave”) are on hand throughout the tournament to evict the weakest cooks and crown the best of the best.
Besides the tournament format, an episode of “Supermarket Mas-
ters” is just like a normal episode of “Guy’s Grocery Games.” Set in a supermarket, four chefs are given a challenge by the host, typically one that ties into the setting somehow. They’re given a set amount of time to both shop for their ingredients and cook up a dish that wows the judges.
It’s hectic fun in a normal episode, but with so much money on the line, the stakes are higher than ever. “Guy’s Grocery Games: Supermarket Masters” continues Sunday, April 2, on Food Network.
Late Laughs
Conan
In honor of International Women’s Day, Snapchat added famous women to their selfie lenses. Snapchat called it: “The perfect way to honor the enduring contributions of women for 10 seconds.”
At the White House yesterday, President Trump popped out from behind a screen and surprised a group of children. It was officially the least
frightening thing Trump has done since he took office.
In Mississippi, a child disrupted a news station’s live weather report, and the kid forecasted “farts everywhere.” So congratulations to Trump’s new head of the National Weather Service.
Disney has announced that its upcoming live-action Aladdin movie is going to feature Middle Eastern actors. Filming will begin in May, or whenever the actors are no longer detained at the airport.
Because of the generousity of businesses and individuals we have always been able to Celebrate the 4th of July in a very patriotic way and with a lot of community events.
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
When it comes to cutbacks, “the Coast Guard would bear the brunt, seeing its budget cut by $1.3 billion.” The Coast Guard? Who does Trump think protects the waters around Mar-a-Lago: laser-sighted manatees?
Trump’s paying for his immigration program by cutting funds to the Coast Guard, airport and rail security. Great. So we’re fine as long as nobody tries to get
into America by sea, air or land.
Weekend Update With Colin Jost and Michael Che
Democrats are upset because a lot of poor people could lose coverage.
Conservatives are upset because it doesn’t repeal Obamacare enough. And I’m upset because it still doesn’t cover medicinal cocaine, and I’ve got a screenplay to finish.