Everyone's favourite Prison Break psycho is back

Cult TV's most ruthless villain has won a reprieve and will appear in a brand new series titled Breakout Kings.

It'll take up T-Bag's story after his spell in Fox River Prison, the penitentiary he was returned to as Prison Break ended.

But, as actor Robert Knepper explains, he needed a hand first.

"During season two of Prison Break, while I was on the run, I had one of my hands chopped off," he smiles.

"When they decided to bring T-Bag back, we had to search round for the prosthetic hand he wore. We had several but could we find any of them?"

Bagwell started out as the scariest of all the inmates but ended up an unlikely fan favourite, as we found out more about his past.

This was a sicko who just wanted to be loved.

"I think he was so many different things," explains Knepper. "He was one of the most evil characters in the show but he also had a human side.

"The letters I used to get were: 'I hate you, and I want you dead'. Then the letters changed to: 'I hate you, but I don't want you dead'. By the time we finished the series, they changed to 'I really feel for T-Bag'.

"Not everyone would have gone through what he went through in childhood, what he had to endure, but there was this empathy for him. Besides, he was also damn funny!"

He reveals he follows a simple rule when it comes to playing villains: "In acting class years ago, they would say: 'Don't ever play a bad guy like a bad guy. Play a guy who makes a choice that's different from somebody else'."

The return of T-Bag has been engineered by Prison Break mastermind Matt Olmstead and writer Nick Santora, and the Breakout Kings series is due to make its debut sometime next year.

"We just inked the deal, it's done; they're going to bring back T-Bag!" says Knepper. "It's going to be fun. I'm going to shoot that up in Toronto right after Thanksgiving Day ..."

In the meantime Knepper, who also played sinister carnival boss Samuel Sullivan in Heroes, is set to bow out of Stargate Universe in dramatic fashion. His character, Simeon, is another monster.

On Tuesday night, he'll break out of his starship cell, commit a murder and end up in a lie or death stand-off with Dr Nicholas Rush, played by Robert Carlyle. But, hey, he'll be back...