Empire's Final Song!

Empire falls. The Lyons go extinct. Fox has announced the sixth season is its last.

It's official.

We all knew this was coming.

Thanks to Jussie Smollett's antics, the musical drama Empire will have a final season.

The show that made Terrance Howard and Taraj P Henson the iconic Luscious and Cookie Lyon. The show that gave Gabourey Sidibe, Trai Byers and Bryshere Y. Gray a voice to the forgotten and underprivileged. A musical drama that gave you suspense, entertainment and motivation.

All of that ends after the sixth season. So that means that Empire's fall return will be reduced to 20 episodes.

Disney and Fox Entertainment announced that the hit drama is being cancelled after its upcoming fall season. The scandal in January did damage to the brand, the cast and Lee Daniels.

Daniels made history with the first successful Black drama in modern age. Empire began its first season with 19 million people watching. It was green-lighted a second season soon after the third episode. I've watched Empire faithfully. I have covered this on Journal de la Reyna.

During its run, it had a modest drop off in ratings. But at best, it pulled in 4 to 9 million viewers.

This comes as the network had cancelled Star. The show was modestly well.

It was cancelled upon a cliffhanger. Lee Daniels and Danny Strong hopes of Star having a fourth season has been lowered now that Fox put the brakes on Empire .

Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier says there is an option to have Smollett in the show's final season but right now, he's totally on his honeymoon. The final episode had Smollett marrying his longtime partner (played by Toby Onwumere). Smollett played Jamal Lyon, an openly gay musician. He became a focal point of the series because he publicly came out as well as the character.

Collier did say that the cast will give Empire a big send-off.

Empire's entire cast were hoping that Fox will allow him back on to no avail.

Empire's ratings took a nosedive after the Smollett scandal. Besides that, it cost a lot to produce the two shows. Most of the filming were in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Atlanta.

Fox Entertainment wanted to also eliminate scripted shows for the upcoming NFL season. The NFL approved Fox for its programming to air on Sunday, Monday and Thursday. The wild-card playoffs will air on Fox as well as Superbowl LIV.

They also will bring Major League Soccer, MLB, UFC Fighting and WWE to Fox.

Empire will likely head to Tuesday or Fridays when it's finishing up its final episodes.