"The show is just played out," he said today at TCA. Thus, the network plans to shunt the show's final episodes to Friday nights in April, where it can extend one clammy, tattooed hand and attempt to take down the beleaguered Dollhouse with it. But, there is some good news: the same month will see Fox finally slot the animated comedy Sit Down, Shut Up from Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz. It will be airing at 8:30 on Sundays, immediately preceding Family Guy. Comedy whiplash!

• Fox cancels 'Prison Break,' seats 'Sit Down' [THR]

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While it was announced yesterday that AFTRA has reached a deal with the major studios, some SAG accredited actors like Prison Break star Wentworth Miller are preparing for another potential strike by going back to their roots. Specifically, Miller has returned to waiting tables at the Glendale area restaurant he worked at before getting his break. Miller said, "The manager was real cool about it and understands how the strikes affects all aspects of the economy. I'm also looking forward to go back to my roots as an actor." While he may be getting back to his roots, this time Miller plans on eating more than he did when he was a struggling actor. Miller said, "There will be not a strict Top Ramen diet this time around. Maybe some In-N-Out burgers, but definitely no Top Ramen."

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"The public has the right to know that conduct such as this, causing devastation such as this" will have consequences, Superior Court Judge Elden S. Fox said.

"Unfortunately, in this case, you have to be the messenger," he told Garrison.

Before the ruling, he apologized to the family of Vahagn Setian.

"I'm sick of my own behavior that night," he said. "This remorse is genuine. I feel it every day."

With Garrison safely behind bars, relieved parents of Beverly Hills High students can now feel free to sign permission slips for the Terror At 30,000 Feet Halloween Dance, semi-confident that no C-list Hollywood type will sidle up to their children on a beanbag couch in the Cockpit of Doom to coax them away from the proceedings with the promise of a "kick-ass, all-you-can-snort party in the Hills."

• Garrison Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison [AP]

· Transitioning into the "paycheck-hungry Oscar-winner playing a dad with a creepy child" phase of his career (see De Niro, Robert and Hide and Seek), Kevin Costner accepts a lead role in the horror flick The New Daughter. A possibly haunted burial ground is involved. [THR]
· Jessica Biel will star in the United Artists of Tom Cruise-produced thriller Die a Little, a project during which the actress will be evaluated for her potential fitness as Katie Holmes' inevitable replacement. Hey, Holmes can't stay young enough to pretend to have his robot babies forever. [Variety]
· Shockingly, Lions for Lambs actor/director Robert Redford is not the Bush Administration's biggest fan. [Variety]

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TV Guide: Let's discuss the way you killed her off. Some might view it as you guys exacting revenge on Sarah for not returning. Olmstead: We really had no way of using her image other than the existing images that we had. Those Polaroids we used are old wardrobe shots from Season 1 and 2. She didn't give us any new photos. So [we had to devise a way to] kill her [and still] show a body....

Olmstead: Obviously she wasn't going to fly down and be a DOA for us. We just wanted to go with the most dramatic way to do it, a way that you could do it and not need the actress. TV Guide: So Sarah's refusal to return essentially limited how you could kill her? Olmstead: Yeah, basically. Could you have seen a [body] double's feet being shoved into a meat grinder? Sure. Could you see a wide shot of a female body being dumped in an ocean? Probably. But dramatically, this allowed us to get the most out of what little we had to work with.... We used her not coming back to our advantage.

While Olmstead's explanation may seem reasonable, something about the series's abrupt turn into Fincherian macabre—particularly when it involves carving up one of the last female leads—isn't likely to sit well with fans, who have invested three seasons into the blossoming love affair between the beloved prison doctor and her blueprint-covered boyfriend. But it's her fellow series regulars who truly have cause for concern (see them skittishly answer the probing questions of an outraged E! reporter here), the cast now having fully come to realize any one of them is just an oozing UPS package away from T-Bagging for the very last time.

• Prison Break Exclusive: The Real Story Behind Sara's Death [community.tvguide.com]

More on this story when information becomes available as the day progresses, God help us all.

UPDATE: Would you like to see a brief local news clip of the nice man at the press conference who announced announcing that Hilton was reassigned to the "community-based alternative to custody electronic monitoring program." Of course you would. After the jump:

• Paris Hilton released from LA jail [AP]
• Previously: Breaking: Paris Hilton's Cavities Properly Probed [Defamer]

Authorities said they are seeking at least three charges, including gross vehicular manslaughter, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Beverly Hills police said officers also found containers of alcohol inside Garrison's SUV.

Beverly Hills Police Chief David Snowden said Garrison had a blood-alcohol level of more than 0.15% — about double the state's legal limit of 0.08%.

Harold Braun, Garrison's lawyer and title holder of Today's Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness, had originally stated the actor had consumed a grand total of two drinks that night, a "margarita" (perhaps the kind served in a festive five-quart plastic sand pail that did Paris Hilton in, as well), and "a drink from the bottle of alcohol that he had just purchased." But while Braun had originally postulated that "someone put something in the drink," we're pretty sure he was referring to some kind of date-rape drug, and not a 1.5 liter splash of citrus-infused Grey Goose chased with a couple of fat rails.

• Beverly Hills police want felony charges for 'Prison Break' actor [LAT]

• Prison Break Star Tries to Explain 'Tea-bagging' to Regis [YouTube via BWE]

"No, I'm not gay," he said.

"I know these rumours are out there ... I'm cool with the fact that they exist, I mean this is about fantasy.

"Certain people are going to have certain fantasies, if someone wants to imagine me with a woman, or a man or one of each that's cool with me as long as you keep watching the show."

We hope the corner office occupants at Fox TV appreciate what they have in Wentworth, whose devotion to drawing viewers to their serialized story of escaped inmates is so great, he's willingly turned his sexuality into a blank canvas upon which one can tattoo his or her own set of personalized, lusty blueprints.

• Prison Break star not enjoying fame [news.ninemsn.com.au via PerezHilton]

Five eyewitnesses from the party tell TMZ that Garrison arrived at the party with Setian and two women, whom he had met earlier at a gas station. They say Lane brought a bottle of Grey Goose vodka to the party and unveiled the bottle to the crowd with a flourish. The gathering was described by several attendees as a "kick back of around 30 people.

The eyewitnesses, all acquaintances of Setian, say that Garrison then started taking shots of the vodka and offering shots to other partygoers. Several eyewitnesses also said photographs were taken of Garrison consuming alcohol.

Later in the evening, when the alcohol at the party was running low, the eyewitnesses say that Garrison agreed to drive out to buy more, and took Setian and two girls with him.

While nothing here can reduce the senselessness of the events, perhaps at the very least the newly emerging details of the Grey Goose-branded tragedy and supporting photographic evidence will be enough to jog post-traumatic amnesia sufferer Garrison out of his current fog.

• Garrison Did "Several Shots" Before Fatal Crash [TMZ]
• Previously: Fansite Abandons Lane Garrison In Hour Of Need [Defamer]

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• Previously: 'Prison Break' Actor Lane Garrison's Lawyer: 'My Client Was Just Playing Carpool Mom' [Defamer]

According to Braun, Garrison met the teens, who were fans, at a grocery store and accompanied them to a party, where he had one drink. About an hour later, the actor left the party to meet a female friend and the teens asked if they could go with him, Braun said. Garrison said yes.

The next thing Garrison recalled was waking up at Century City Doctors Hospital — where he was treated for minor injuries — with a taxicab voucher in his lap, Braun said.

"There is always the possibility that someone put something in the drink," Braun said, adding that the blood test would show that.

"We're still trying to figure out what happened," said the lawyer, adding that Garrison was having trouble with his vehicle's brakes and the SUV pulled to the right. He said police would examine the vehicle.

Garrison, who lives in Beverly Hills, was "despondent" and "overwhelmed" by the incident, Braun said.

The lawyer's explanation of the bizarre turn of events leading up to the accident only raises more tricky questions: Specifically, what was a 26-year-old TV actor doing befriending two 15-year-old girls and their pal at a supermarket on a Saturday night, then accompanying them to a high school house party? (A similar turn of events was played for laughs on the last season of Entourage.) Stories about what exactly went down at that adolescent bacchanalia are sure to emerge in the coming days, upon which we will inch closer to the truth about whether or not Garrison fell victim to a couple of celebrity-leery, teenage pranksters who plotted to dose his Pabst with GHB before loosening a few nuts on his Land Rover's master cylinder.

• Actor was driving in fatal crash [LAT]
• Tweener Compilation [YouTube]

(CBS) BEVERLY HILLS A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 15-year-old girl was critically injured when a sport utility vehicle containing actor Lane Garrison of television's "Prison Break" struck a tree in Beverly Hills, police said. The accident occurred about 11:50 p.m. Saturday in the 300 block of Beverly Drive, said Beverly Hills police Officer Jeff Gelfman.

The name of the fatally injured boy was withheld. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Garrison, 26, was not seriously injured. Aside from the critically injured girl, another 15-year-old girl suffered lesser injuries.

It was unclear who was driving the northbound vehicle, which hit a tree on the east curb, he said.

TMZ now reports that sources in the Beverly Hills police department confirm that Garrison was the driver of the SUV. They've also helpfully reposted a video clip of a late October fender-bender involving the actor captured by their ever-present cameras stationed on the sidewalk in front of Hyde; while this footage has seemingly nothing to do with Saturday night's accident, we imagine that TMZ is spotlighting it again out of a sense of vague guilt that they didn't heed the earlier accident as some kind of warning sign and make a citizen's confiscation of Garrison's keys.

• 'Prison Break' Actor Involved in Fatal Crash [CBS2.com]