Paul Adelstein returning to 'Prison Break' revival

Los Angeles, March 22 (IANS) TV actor Paul Adelstein, who essayed Paul Kellerman in the TV series Prison Break, which was aired from 2005 to 2009 will reprise his role in the upcoming revival of the series.

Adelstein will joins the original cast members of the series, who are returning which includes actors Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield), Dominic Purcell (Lincoln Burrows), Sarah Wayne Callies (Dr. Sara Tancredi), Robert Knepper (T-Bag), Amaury Nolasco (Sucre) and Rockmond Dunbar (C-Note), reports variety.com.

The new Prison Break will be a sequel to the first four seasons.

The next chapter shall pick up when clues surface in the TV series, that suggest a previously thought-to-be-dead Michael (Miller) may be alive.

Lincoln (Purcell) and Sara (Callies) will be reuniting to engineer the escape as three of Fox River State Penitentiary's most notorious escapees, T-Bag (Knepper), C-Note (Dunbar) and Sucre (Nolasco), are pulled back into the action.

Adelstein appeared in all four seasons of the original drama, 46 episodes in total.

He has starred in Private Practice, had a long-running recurring role in Scandal and currently stars in Bravo's Girlfriends Guide to Divorce opposite actress Lisa Edelstein.

The revived Prison Break will premiere during the 2016-17 television season, though no premiere date has been announced.