Fox To Premiere Empire’s Season 2 On Sept. 23Posted by Wilson Morales
May 29, 2015
FOX announced today that “Empire” will premiere its second season on Wednesday, September 23 at 9pm.
From Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Precious), Emmy Award winner Danny Strong (“Game Change,” Lee Daniels’ The Butler) and Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, “24”), comes the drama about a family dynasty, set within a world of music, glamour, danger and power.
While the first season had 10 episodes, the second will be expanded to 18. It will be split into 2 halves, premiering in the fall and with the second half in the winter of 2016.
The cast will be doing concerts this summer, in addition to other promotional efforts that kick off in June. The creators will be at ABFF on June 14 to talk on the most powerful and groundbreaking show on television.
The series stars Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon and Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon, Jussie Smollett as Jamal Lyon, Bryshere Gray as Hakeem Lyon, Trai Byers as Andre Lyon, Grace Gealey as Anika Gibbons, and Kaitlin Doubleday as Rhonda Lyon.
Gabourey Sidibe and Ta’Rhonda Jones, who play Lucious’ and Cookie’s respective assistants Becky and Porsha, have been elevated to series regulars for Season 2.
In season 2, the songs will written by Ne-Yo and Timberland.
Here are notable facts on the show from Wikipedia – The show’s premiere ranked as Fox’s highest-rated debut in three years. Viewership has increased continuously; Empire is the first series in at least 23 years to have its viewership increase week to week for its first five episodes. The show continues to increase its viewership with further episodes.
As of its first season finale, Empire has now surpassed The Big Bang Theory as the highest rated scripted program in the 2014-2015 television season. The first season finale is also the highest rated freshman season finale since May 2005, when Grey’s Anatomy ended its first season. Empire’s season one finale grew 82 percent from its series premiere, making it the show that has grown the most over the course of its first season since Men in Trees during the 2006-2007 season.
Among the guests scheduled to appear in the new season are Chris Rock, Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz.
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