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Empire Talk Week 7: Our Dancing Days (FoxTV)
Quick Recap/Highlights and Around the Web with Empire Note:embedded tweets will not be entirely visible to those receiving Tinsel & Tine via RSS Feed. [ Also see “The Duff” Mini Review below] “Empire continues to do the seemingly impossible. Fox’s hip-hop drama rose yet again in the ratings Wednesday night. The show had 11.9 million viewers and 4.7 rating among adults 18-49. That’s just a tenth of a point higher than last week’s record, but still—it’s yet another gain. The show had already broken a 23-year-old broadcast ratings record last week by growing its viewership its first five weeks in a row.“ READ MORE EW.com This is awesome! Both Terrence…
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Empire Talk Week 5: Dangerous Bonds (FoxTV)
7 Highlights (Recap) from Episode 5 of EMPIRE “Dangerous Bonds” Directed by John Singleton Viewers were going crazy tweeting about the end of this week’s episode. Cookie’s $5000 hasty “purchase” is going to have big consequences! 1. One of the great things about this show, the format and music element makes it easy to have a slew of cameo appearances without it seeming overdone. This week Anthony Hamilton serenaded Anika while Lucious proposed marriage (Did you see that ROCK!?). Only thing is, the proposal looks to be yet another strategic Lucious Lyons move as he needs a written clean bill of health to give to the insurance company, before Empire…
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Empire Talk Week 4: False Imposition (FoxTV)
Here we are 4th week of Empire and I thought this was going to be the first week I couldn’t watch at 9pm, cause I had a screening I couldn’t miss, but then lucky for me they changed the screening time from 7:30pm to 6pm, so I was home with 15 minutes to spare – just enough time to make myself a cup of hot cocoa with brandy and turn on Cookie and them! 7 Highlights (Recap) from Episode 4 of EMPIRE “False Imposition” Directed by Rosemary Rodriguez 1. Tianna (Serayah) knows what’s up! Despite the way Hakeem feels about his mother, Tianna understands Cookie knows her stuff, so she…
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Empire Talk Week 3: The Devil Quotes Scripture (FoxTV)
This week Empire was directed by Sanaa Hamri and gave us three guest appearances: Gladys Knight sung at Bunkie’s funeral in Philadelphia. Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Puma, a former songwriter turned rancher, who’s always held a soft spot for Cookie (Taraiji P. Henson). And Naomi Campbell as Camilla the Cougar, who we find out has been sleeping with young Hakeem (Bryshere Gray). (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’)); Post by Lauren DeLisa. 7 Highlights (Recap) from Episode 3 of EMPIRE “The Devil Quotes Scripture” 1. Cookie almost got baked, when…
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Empire Talk Week 2: The Outspoken King (Fox TV)
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor So twitter was really hot during Empire last night. Looks like the show is catching on. It’s an all out crazy, fun, campy, black soap opera. Don’t come to it looking for quality programming, watch it for the sheer entertainment value alone! The Beautiful Talented @therealtaraji 💜got me glued 2 da T.V. ! 💯 Fav new Show #Empire #gurlpower http://t.co/n3OBlxeqSQ— YUMMYYUM MS.32FLAVAZ (@DiamondAtl) January 15, 2015 Last night’s episode was actually directed by Lee Daniels, the series creator. Once again Cookie (Taraiji P. Henson) reigns supreme, putting her 2 cents or ($400,000) in everywhere. She just can’t leave Lucious (Terrance Howard) alone, barging into his…
