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Empire – Series Premiere

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Channel: Fox

Stars: Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Courtney Love, Rafael de la Fuente

Production Company: 20th Century Fox Television, Imagine Television

Released: January 7, 2015

Director: Lee Daniels

Synopsis: A unique family drama set in the world of a hip hop empire.

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by Kate Oliver

The Pilot.  Season 1.  Terrence Howard as Luscious Lyon and Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon. I love these two.  You have no idea.  The first episode of this interesting take on the music industry from a “Hip Hop Mogul” prospective.  More like from a street gangster to an executive.

This first episode gives some back story, the return of Cookie Lyon after 17 years in prison and the evolution of Empire during that time frame.  You will see a broken family, one child disrespectful to his mother, the other hated by his father, both musical sensations.  The oldest child trying to get his father’s approval to take over the company.  Howard plays Luscious Lyon, the drug dealer turned rapper turned music executive.  I love him.  I mean really. He is smooth and forward, no nonsense.  You can see his disdain for his one son, Jamal (played by Jussie Smollet), who is wonderfully artistic, but chose the wrong sexuality in his eyes.  You can also see his extreme favor for his son Hakeem, played by Byshere Gray, the rapper with a silver tongue.  His money maker.

Cookie returns to get what is hers, can you blame her? Let’s see how this will work at as plans have started to take the stage.  Let me tell you, I am loving Cookie’s brutally honest remarks.  GO WATCH the episode.  It’s on e’rything! My favorite line: “Jamal got me wearing these weaves…you know, I don’t like ’em…got girls’s scalps smellin’ like goat ass.” Oh my gosh!!  I was dying this morning at my desk (I watched this episode twice). The struggle is real! The show, is ON POINT!

I am excited for the coming episodes!!

There was some slap back between Ms. Henson and 50 Cent…but you know how things go, right?

I am excited for a new drama on Wednesday nights.  I am definitely loving Ms. Taraji P. Henson.  She is so powerful as an actress and she commands that power in this show.

If you love music (or even have an ear for it), you should watch this show and follow.  There is some serious drama in this show.  I am excited! I am still trying to figure out Courtney Love’s character, Elle Dallas (I couldn’t place her in this first episode)!

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You can catch Empire on Fox on Wednesday Nights at 9pm.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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