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TV Ratings: ‘Empire’ Returns Low, ‘This Is Us’ Wins Tuesday

posted 5 years ago by Satan2016 (25567)
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BTW, how did they write out Jussie's character?

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni62629457?ref_=tt_nwr3

Elsewhere, “Empire” returned sans Jussie Smollett to a series low 1.0 rating on Fox and 3.4 million total viewers. That is also the lowest total viewership for the show in its five season run to date.

[–] Satan2016 (25567) 5 years ago

In a short scene, his mother mentions Jussie's character ran off to London.

https://news.dailywire.com/news/anyway-heres-how-jussie-smollett-was-written-off-empire/

[–] dmac8 (5050) 5 years ago

It was already falling pre-Smollett nonsense. In S3 it was averaging over 11mi total viewers.