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Posted Wednesday 4/24/19 at 2:56AM EDT
Empire co-creator Lee Daniels says "I can’t judge" Jussie Smollett: "He is like my son"
“The cast is upset, it is a sad time and we are slowly healing,” Daniels tells Extra of Smollett's hate-crime...
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Lee Daniels: Jussie Smollett case has caused the Empire team "pain and anger and sadness"
“These past couple of weeks have been a freakin’ rollercoaster,” the Empire co-creator said in an emotional video posted this...
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Posted Wednesday 3/20/19 at 9:24PM EDT
Disney now has a showrunners "all-stars" lineup after closing Fox deal
As The Hollywood Reporter points out, Disney Television Studios now boasts a deep bunch of showrunners, including Dan Fogelman, Steve...
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Posted Friday 2/22/19 at 6:51PM EST
Report: Empire may recast Jussie Smollett's role
Smollett's suspension for the final two episodes of the season after being charged with a felony may not spell the...
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Jussie Smollett removed from Empire's final two episodes of the season to avoid "disruption on set"
The producers of the Fox drama have released a statement announcing that Smollett will be kept off the show while...
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Empire's Jussie Smollett hospitalized after being viciously attacked in a possible hate crime
Chicago police are investigating a “racially-charged assault and battery" on the Empire star early this morning, saying "given the severity...
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Posted Tuesday 10/02/18 at 2:47PM EDT
Whitney Cummings is set to star in a #MeToo-themed Amazon college comedy that she is co-creating with Lee Daniels
The 2 Broke Girls co-creator and the Empire co-creator are developing a half-hour comedy for Amazon revolving around the staff...
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Posted Thursday 7/05/18 at 12:34PM EDT
Lee Daniels: Cardi B auditioned for Star
Daniels says he's been a fan of the rapper she auditioned for his Fox musical drama nearly three years ago.
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Posted Thursday 5/10/18 at 9:39PM EDT
Fox's Gone Baby Gone and Beth Behrs' Our People pilots are dead, Katie Holmes' FBI pilot is still alive
Fox is still mulling what to do with the pilots Mixtape and Thomas Lennon's Dan the Weatherman, according to Deadline.
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Posted Thursday 5/10/18 at 1:22PM EDT
Fox renews Star for Season 3
The Lee Daniels musical-soap has been performing well with his other Fox show, Empire.
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Posted Monday 4/02/18 at 9:00PM EDT
Lee Daniels' Fox comedy pilot Our People changes its name to Culture Clash
Comedian Biniam Bizuneh has taken over the co-lead role in a recasting, starring opposite Beth Behrs in the culture-clash comedy...
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Posted Tuesday 3/06/18 at 7:31AM EST
Charmed reboot finds its third sister
The Tomorrow People alum Madeleine Mantock will play Macy, an "über-smart geneticist," on The CW reboot.
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Posted Friday 2/23/18 at 1:50AM EST
Lea Thompson returning to comedy, signing on for Lee Daniels' Our People
The former NBC Caroline in the City star will play "a fleece and birkenstocks hippie" whose Midwestern daughter tries to...
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Posted Friday 2/02/18 at 3:15AM EST
Fox picks up a third drama pilot from an Empire boss
Co-creators Lee Daniels and Danny Strong now each have pilots at Fox, as does executive producer and former showrunner Ilene Chaiken.
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Posted Wednesday 1/24/18 at 4:39PM EST
Empire and Star return on March 28
Fox announced midseason premiere dates for both Lee Daniels musical dramas, and released a teaser of an axe-wielding Demi Moore on...