There Will Be An Empire Spin-Off
Empire is for sure getting a spin-off and will never ever leave us.
Praise Be to the Elusive Chanteuse: Mariah is Coming to Empire
Is today a national Mariah Carey holiday and someone forgot to tell me?
Woman Who Says She's Cookie Lyon Is Suing Empire Creator
There’s no doubt Cookie Lyon is one of the best (and most fashionable) characters on modern television. Have you ever wondered if the Empire matriarch was actually based on a real-life person? A woman named Sophia Eggleston says that Cookie is based on her life and Lee Daniels, the show’s co-creator, ripped off her…
New Empire Trailer! Season 2! Money, Power, Respect & Cookie!
“Ain’t about the money it’s about the power,” instructs the new Empire trailer, which features Cookie Lyon continuing her position as television’s foremost Master At Finding Intelligent Attitudes.
Broad City's Star Wonders Who She Has to Peg to Get an Emmy Nomination
As Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis, Tatiana Maslany and more celebrate their Emmy nominations, Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson is like ‘What the fuck, man?’
Empire’s Lee Daniels on Emmys Snub: 'Fuck These Motherfuckers'
Lee Daniels didn’t hold back his feelings when it came to the Emmys passing on Empire for the majority of their nomination categories. The show’s co-creator posted a vid of him and Jussie Smollett, who plays Jamal Lyon, having a friendly chat about Instagram etiquette. “Jussie is saying I have to be politically…
It's Time to Fulfill Your Dream of Landing a Role on Empire
1) An Empire promo bus will be traveling across the country this summer. 2) It’s gold. 3) They’re holding a contest for fans to recreate a song from the show to win a guest role in the second season... 4) ...as an Empire Records artist.
Marisa Tomei Is One of the Trillion Guest Stars on Empire's Season 2
Marisa Tomei will have a guest role on Empire’s second season, and so will Kelly Rowland and Lenny Kravitz, Chris Rock, Alicia Keys and Oprah.
Taraji P. Henson Looks Pretty Damn Good
Taraji P. Henson, star of Fox’s Empire as the wildly frank ex-con Cookie, showed her glamorous side in W magazine, proving we all should probably step up our respective games.
All the Smoking-Hot Looks From the 2015 Billboard Awards Red Carpet
It’s not really awards season and we’re on the cusp of summer: can these musicians give us some red carpet heat for the 2015 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas? Taylor Swift’s premiering “Bad Blood,” Kanye West is doing some kind of outro spectacular, and Empire’s Jussie Smollett and Bryshere “Yazz” Gray are…
Taraji P. Henson Channels Cookie In Her SNL Promo
Taraji P. Henson is wearing a white fringe jacket ripped straight from Cookie’s closet in this promo spot for Saturday Night Live, which she’s hosting this Saturday. Watch her slap Taran Killam and offer him Cookie-style advice on confronting a fellow castmember. Killam also pitches a show called Umpire. Mumford and…
Deadline Issues Sorry-Not-Sorry for Lamenting People of Color on TV
On Sunday, Deadline Hollywood—the site where last week an editor wondered aloud if there are too many actors of color working—issued a non-apology apology for their article "The Year of Ethnic Castings–About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?"
Empire's Boo Boo Kitty and Andre Lyon Are Probably Dating
Boo Boo Kitty and Andre Lyon are seeing each other in some capacity, in real life.
Diversity on TV Is Scary, Reports White Woman
On Tuesday, Deadline Hollywood's Nellie Andreeva dissected the swell of actors of color in television's casting rooms and leading roles, writing that minorities might be snatching too many jobs. I mean, what are the white actors supposed to do in this kind of climate?
Fox Is Suing 'Empire Distribution' to Protect Its Rights to Empire
Fox has filed a lawsuit to protect its rights to the Empire name and property. It sounds like a plot straight out of Empire.
Cookie Lyon's Closet is For Sale! Here Are My Irrefutible Empire Picks
Following the Empire's exhausting finale this week—Yes Boo Boo Kitty slept with ____ and yes, ____ caught them—you can now buy a piece of Cookie Lyon's cat-print-filled wardrobe for yourself. You too can "taste these cookies," if you will. I ranked the items for your viewing and, perhaps, buying pleasure, if…
This Might Kill Us All: Our Empire Season One Finale Live Blog
The greatest and saddest moment in the history of (2015) television is about to happen: the two-hour season finale of Empire. There will be guest appearances (Rita Ora, Snoop Dogg, etc.). And someone is expected to die. Could be you.
QUIZ: Which Empire Character's Potential Death Are You?
Empire airs its two-hour season finale tonight, so prepare for the next several months of life to be a meaningless, incurable existence. On the bright side,
this finale will kill us
we're in for a killer season closer.
