Not really. Its all set on a timeline from the first series, and im sure 2007 was the latest they could extend it for the current season.
Well see, here's the thing ... if you follow the dates backwards exactly then you must come to Season 1 taking place in 1995... but
I'm told that Super Tuesday had to have taken place in 1996.
I watched Prision break season 1 & 2, but talk about repeating story lines, Prision break season 3 was a fine example :S Gah, put me off for life, not watched it since.
Prison Break S01 was not a perfect season... they stretched it too long. Instead of 22 episodes, it could have been achieved using around 14-16. I'm not saying that it should have been shorter, I'm saying that it didn't have enough story to justify its original length. This was a huge problem with the second season, although (to its merit) it was a very interesting season, and I think of S03 being the best season yet. The fact that it ended after the 13th episode in my opinion was great. It went back to the fundamentals, but this time Michael had to plan his escape from inside. S04 is an example of when a TV series goes horribly, horribly wrong.
24 is not a show I watched on TV originally, the first series I watched was S05 - and the formatting on Foxtel was better (IMO) than the DVD formatting. They wouldn't show any black where ad breaks should be, they would simply "skip" the count-down-clock and go straight to the count-up clock... showing two episodes per week back-to-back. Very enjoyable in this format.
The current series is really not much better than the previous one - they're simply doing the same things over and over to death. Like Jack being stopped while chasing a suspect arrested and then released - that happened in S05 as well, exactly. And top-level staff/cabinet resigning, etc it's been done to death.
I actually quite enjoy Terminator SCC now, I watched about 3 or 4 episodes of the first season, and then loyally followed the second. It doesn't have the best continuity with the films, but it's still much better than T3's continuity.