EMPIRE: What You Missed on Your Summer Vacation

EMPIRE season 2 kicks off tonight!

Take a look at everything you missed this summer, including photos from tonight’s season premiere, an episode tease, and all the links you’ll need to catch up on what went down…

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Watch Fox’s EMPIRE Season 2 Premiere Event!

Fox is kicking off EMPIRE’s second season in style.

The musical smash will return to our televisions on Wednesday, September 23rd, but the network is throwing a huge premiere event tonight (Saturday, September 12th)…and you can watch what goes down!

Starting at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, Fox will livestream the event (from Carnegie Hall in New York), which will feature a Q&A with Terrence Howard (Lucious), Taraji P. Henson (Cookie), Jussie Smollett (Jamal), Trai Byers (Andre), Bryshere Y. Gray (Hakeem), Grace Gealey (Anika), Kaitlin Doubleday (Rhonda), Gabourey Sidibe (Becky), Ta’Rhonda Jones (Porsha), Serayah McNeil (Tiana), co-creators Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, showrunner Ilene Chaiken, and executive producer Francie Calfo. And, of course, there will also be some performances in store.

Want to stream it? Watch below!

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EMPIRE Season 2 Premiere Photos: ‘The Devils Are Here’

We’re just over three weeks away from EMPIRE’s second season premiere, and things aren’t looking great for the jailed Lucious Lyon.

On the bright side (for viewers)? His family is putting on a concert to help him out.

Check out some photos from “The Devils Are Here”…

EMPIRE: Andre Royo Teases His Guest Arc

With Lucious Lyon in jail by the end of EMPIRE’s breakout first season, he’ll need a new ally in his corner: Andre Royo’s “Thirsty” Rawlings.

“[He]’s a lawyer,” Royo told reporters. “It’s [been] pretty cool, it’s a fun time…[Terrence Howard] is a very dynamic dude — [as is] the whole cast. It’s probably the closest to that theater feel; the script is there, and that’s a blueprint. I come from THE WIRE, 95 percent was on the page — don’t even try to ad lib, though I got away with [some]. But overall, with EMPIRE and me and Terrence, it’s a real dynamic theater [feel], and it helps me have a theatrical spin — everything is big, everything is over the top, and at the end of the day, you just enjoy. So I’m having a blast.”

Royo’s lawyer is not particularly musically inclined — but that could, of course, change. “If I do [a song], it will probably be more rapping,” he laughed.

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EMPIRE Season 2: Fox Releases the First Promo

With just nine weeks until EMPIRE season 2 launches, Fox released the first promo for the breakout hit’s sophomore season.

In the (short) tease, viewers get a hint of new music, a trendy new hashtag (#FreeLucious), and Cookie visiting Lucious in jail.

Check it out…

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EMPIRE returns Wednesday, September 23rd at 9 PM on Fox.

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EMPIRE Season 2 Premiere: Taraji P. Henson Tweets Out Return Date

EMPIRE will return on Wednesday, September 23rd, series star Taraji P. Henson (Cookie) tweeted out. (Reps for the show have not replied to a request for comment.)

Hello! September 23 #Empire season ✌🏾️💋💋💋 https://t.co/NWr7SmWk8a

— Taraji P. Henson (@TherealTaraji) May 29, 2015

The date lines up with Fox’s proposed plan: earlier this month, Fox bosses Dana Walden and Gary Newman indicated that most shows would launch the week of September 21st. (Right after the network airs the Emmys.)

Are you excited for EMPIRE season 2?

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