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Empire: Created by Lee Daniels, Danny Strong. With Terrence Howard, Bryshere Y. Gray, Trai Byers, Taraji P. Henson. A hip-hop mogul must choose a successor among his three sons who are battling for control over his multi-million dollar company, while his ex-wife schemes to reclaim what is hers.
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- 2015-01-07
- Drama, Music
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Empire is an American music drama television series created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong for Fox that ran from January 7, 2015, to April 21, 2020. It is a joint production by Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television. Although it is filmed in Chicago, [2][3] the show is set in New York.
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EMPIRE is a powerful new drama that follows LUCIOUS LYON (Terrence Howard) the head of a music empire whose reign has been unchallenged for years. But all that changes when he learns he has a disease and must choose one of his three sons to take over: ANDRE (Trai Byers), JAMAL (Jussie Smollett) or HAKEEM (acting newcomer Bryshere Gray, a.k.a. Yazz ...
The episode introduces Lucious Lyon, the CEO and founder of Empire Entertainment, watching his artist, Veronica, perform What Is Love. After numerously telling Veronica to perform with emotion, Lucious flashes back with concern with his health, foreshadowing his diagnosis with ALS. Meanwhile, on the other side of the building, Hakeem Lyon, the youn...
Main Cast
1. Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon 2. Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon 3. Trai Byers as Andre Lyon 4. Jussie Smollett as Jamal Lyon 5. Bryshere Y. Gray as Hakeem Lyon 6. Grace Gealey as Anika Calhoun 7. Malik Yoba as Vernon Turner 8. Kaitlin Doubleday as Rhonda Lyon
Guest Cast
1. Gabourey Sidibe as Becky Williams 2. Rafael de La Fuente as Michael Sanchez 3. Antoine McKay as Bunkie Williams 4. Tasha Smith as Carol Hardaway 5. Veronika Bozeman as Veronica
Lucious Lyon, the founder and CEO of highly successful multi-million dollar record label Empire Entertainment, finds out that he has ALS and only three years left to live. He decides to pit his thr...Lucious kills his longtime friend and confidante, Bunkie, after Bunkie attempts to extort him for millions and threatens to burn down his empire if he did not comply.The series premiere was watched by 9.90 million viewers with a 3.8 rating.Empire tied with How To Get Away With Murderas the highest rated television series premiere of 2014-15.The scene where young Jamal is thrown into the trash is based on a real incident that happened to co-creator Lee Daniels. When they were shooting the scene, Daniels got choked up and started crying...- January 7, 2015
- 9.90 million viewers
- Lee Daniels
- 3 min
On May 12, 2014, Fox announced that Empire would air as a midseason replacement, rather than as a part of the fall schedule. On November 19, 2014, it was confirmed that the pilot episode would premiere on January 7, 2015, following the season 14 premiere of American Idol.
Jan 7, 2015 · Pilot: Directed by Lee Daniels. With Terrence Howard, Bryshere Y. Gray, Jussie Smollett, Trai Byers. Lucious Lyon, told he has a terminal illness, needs one of his family members to step up and take over his company.
Watch Empire — Season 1 with a subscription on Hulu, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. Though heavy on melodrama, Empire elevates the nighttime soap with its top-notch...
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