Breakout (Canadian TV program)

Breakout is a Canadian television series that aired on the National Geographic Channel throughout the world. It dramatizes real life prison breakouts. The series premiered on March 28, 2010, and aired its last episode on March 23, 2013. It was listed as a Canada/UK co-production.

This article is about the prison break series. For the Singaporean drama television series, see Breakout (Singaporean TV series).
Breakout
GenreDocudrama
Country of originCanada
United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes16
Production
ProducersJeremy Hall
Rebecca North
Production locationCanada
Production companiesRaw TV
Cream
Original release
NetworkDiscovery Channel Canada
National Geographic Channel
ITV4
ReleaseMarch 28, 2010 (2010-03-28) –
March 23, 2013 (2013-03-23)

A number of different producers, writers, actors and other film professionals worked on different episodes.

Episode 15, which featured the prison escape of South African political prisoners Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris from Pretoria Central Prison in 1979, was shown in the UK on 19 April 2013.

This escape was again dramatized in the feature-length film, Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

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