The Grim Reaper certainly worked overtime during the month of May. Throughout this year’s May Sweeps period (which concluded on Wednesday), more than 30 small-screen characters met their demise — some of them rather grisly, in fact. (The bright side? This year’s tally of 33 deaths is considerably lower than the 44 that last year’s […]
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Ratings: Empire Rebounds From Lows, Whiskey Cavalier Ticks Up
Fox’s Empire this Wednesday drew 4.1 million total viewers and a 1.2 demo rating, ticking up from last week’s series lows to end a slide that spanned four episodes. RELATED STORIES Leading out of that, Star (3.5 mil/1.0) also rose, improving on last week’s demo low. Elsewhere…. CBS | Survivor (7.3 mil/1.5) dipped a tenth […]
Empire Star Terrence Howard Defends Jussie Smollett: 'His Innocence or Judgment Is Not for Us to Decide'
Empire star Terrence Howard has broken his silence just days after TV son Jussie Smollett was arrested for allegedly staging last month’s hate-crime attack against himself. Howard initially posted a video to Instagram on Saturday night featuring Smollett with a baby. The post was captioned, “All your lil homies got you… We love the hell outta you […]
Jussie Smollett Still Has Fox's Support, Amid Reports of Cut Empire Scenes
The producers of Empire are speaking out again in the wake of reports that it is cutting back on Jussie Smollett‘s Season 5 shooting schedule as the investigation into an alleged attack of the actor — including the possibility that it may have been staged by Smollett himself — continues to unfold. In a statement […]
Building a Chinese-Food Empire
Andrew Cherng started working in the United States at 18, while he pursued an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Baker University, in Kansas. Starting in 1967, he began spending his summers in New York City, working in a restaurant where his father had connections. It was his first real job. The work was fast-paced, his […]
Cool Stuff: ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Crew Jacket Will Keep You Warm, Doesn’t Smell Bad on the Outside
Among hardcore Star Wars fans, there is one coveted item from the production of the original trilogy that is a rare artifact. No, we’re not talking about any props from the set, even though those are highly sought after items. Instead, we’re talking about a winter jacket given to crew members who worked on the […]
How the American Empire Destroyed the Kingdom of Hawaii
Capt. James Cook arrived in Hawaii, the first known Western explorer to do so, in 1778, and was baffled by the island cluster populated — against all odds — by voyagers who had read the stars to navigate to a few tiny dots of land in the vast sea. On Valentine’s Day the following year, […]
Empire Fall Finale Sneak Peek: Will Jamal and Kai Split Over [Spoiler]?
Kai’s pesky journalistic ethics is putting a crimp in his personal life. As revealed in Wednesday’s Empire fall finale (8/7c, Fox), Jamal’s fiancé — in the course of investigating Empire’s dirty dealings for a big expose — uncovers an avalanche of dirt on Lucious. The discovery, naturally, puts the soon-to-be-wedded duo at a bit of a […]
Superhero Bits: Is the 1966 Batmobile in ‘Joker,’ Eminem Performs ‘Venom’ on the Empire State Building & More
What’s the dumbest Venom storyline of all time? What is DC’s Legends of Tomorrow doing instead of the Arrowverse crossover this year? Did you know Deadpool 2 star Zazie Beetz auditioned for another key Marvel role? Is the 1966 Batmobile appearing in an upcoming DC Comics movie? Who might know Peter Parker‘s secret in Spider-Man: […]
Our modern-day empire requires a lot of force and lying to our people – Ron Paul
The US effort to preserve its global dominance is a costly endeavor based on threats and keeping the American people in the dark about what is going on, told RT former US congressman and libertarian politician Ron Paul. Paul, who heads an institute named after himself, says he and his colleagues are trying to alert […]