Cultural Impact
The show continues to have a massive worldwide audience following. An official online Prisoner fan club website "On the Inside" was established in 2005, with the blessing and support from the current series distributors, FremantleMedia. The website houses a large amount of information about the show and sells official Prisoner merchandise. In December 2007, "On the Inside" launched an official online yearly subscription membership, with members having exclusive access to cast interviews, Prisoner out-takes and rare cast and production images. The website plans for the future include among other things the launch of an official Prisoner magazine. The website itself gets about 80,000 hits a week.
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