The TV Zone

Amazing the ways of television, but typically when your head is cut off, you don't normally return to the show in which you starred. Ah, but what if viewers didn't actually SEE the headless body? Or the bodyless head? what if...

Anyway, Sarah Wayne Callies is coming back to "Prison Break" next season, and her head - TV Guide is now reporting - will be firmly attached to her body. Check out the Michael Ausiello piece here - amazing. Just amazing. As you may vaguely recall, Wentworth Miller squeeze Doc Sara Tancredi got her head taken off last year - the rather unexpected outcome of a particularly unpleasant contract dispute with Fox/producers. ("You want a raise, Callies? Raise THIS!")

But bygones are bygones - particularly now that "PB" has a new two-year deal and has to goose ratings (FAST!). Bringing Tancredi back should help.

Here's how Matt Olmstead wiggled out of Ausiello's obvious question:

"Initially when we realized that we never actually saw the character get killed, we just had that knowledge in our back pocket and moved forward with the narrative as we intended. Which was: she's out of the picture, Michael's [feeling guilty] and Lincoln is freaking out because if they did that to her, they could do that to his son. It really gave us a real push for the season..."

Sara's head would beg to differ...

(Above, Callies, head photoshopped back on.)