Showtime Orders ‘Escape At Dannemora’ Limited Series

By R. Thomas Umstead
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Showtime has greenlit an eight-hour miniseries revolving around a real-life 2015 prison break in upstate New York.

The series, Escape At Dannemora, will star Benicio del Toro (Traffic), Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) and Paul Dano (Love & Mercy) and will chronicle the prison break of two convicted murderers at the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York with the aid of a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled, according to Showtime.

Ben Stiller will executive produce and direct the eight-hour limited series. Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin, Bryan Zuriff, Michael De Luca, and Nicky Weinstock will also serve as executive producers on the project.

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.