After five seasons of power grabs, inexplicable kidnappings, and Cookie Lyon’s endless parade of fur coats, Fox has announced that Empire’s upcoming sixth season will be its last. The announcement comes weeks after the network confirmed its renewal. “We are turning the final season into a large TV event, we are trying to go out guns a blazing,” Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier promised during the Upfronts call. “You allow fans to lean in and have the ending they deserve.”
Since January, the show’s ever-twisting cluster of incredulous storylines has been eclipsed by real-life drama when Jussie Smollett was allegedly attacked in Chicago. Smollett is not slated to come back for the final season; however, with Fox extending the option for Smollett’s return, that could change after the writers officially gather. Empire will return to its original Tuesday, 9 PM slot, pitting it directly against NBC’s recently super renewed This is Us and really providing viewers the devastation du jour experience we’ve long deserved.
This isn’t exactly a banner week for show co-creator Lee Daniels. This past Friday, Fox also dropped the hammer on companion series Star after three seasons.
[Via Deadline]
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Definition of irony: fatally ruining your career and reputation in a gambit to save your role on a show that winds up getting cancelled.
They’re just making REALLY sure Smollett doesn’t get back onscreen.
Surprised this verse didn’t make it in Alanis’s final version of the song.
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife!
I hope he’s not beating himself up about it.
He should have just disguised himself as a woman. That way Terrence Howard would have beaten him up!
Naw, he’s paying someone else to do it.
He wanted more money, too. That was the real motivator. To get paid before the show ended.
This news feels like a gutpunch administered by two brothers of Nigerian descent secretly paid for the attack due to my unhappiness with my salary.
That poor, poor Taraji P. Henson has to do another series of THIS??
Lemme know what white guy can get away with making claims that he was
attacked by two black Obama supporters, then found out by the cops that
he planned the whole thing himself & the two “attackers” were white
associates of his whom he paid off to stage the attack! THEN, the local
white DA drops ALL charges against him before it can even go to
court?
Kill yourself.
Smollett’s shenanigans aside, this has also been a bad and very weird show that is finally being put out of its misery. Terrence Howard has to find something else to distract him from Don Cheadle raking in all the glory and money from his War Machine spot.
Maybe he can now figure out how math works.
Good.Bye.(that said a cast full of black actors has been hard to find so, I hope something replaces it that copies that casting at least.)
Stop the music: Empire to end after season 6Remember, after clapping, wipe your hands and face with baby wipes.