this morning we're getting a speak peek with the show as in tour store cookie and lucious.eat to dish with them when we last saw empire cross lovers they were getting ready to set off on new life together traveling the world but then car bomb that changed everything because now lucious has lost his memory and it changes everything. look at this. >> you know what i notice in all of these albums i don't see your picture in most of them. were you taking i told you there was a great chunk of time that we spent apart. >> how long? 17 years. >> cookie's world turned upside down after that explosion. because now instead of starring the second chapter of her life with lucious, she's trying to get him to remember her at all. she says despite the soap opera style of drama a lot of people will be able to relate. >> i think it will register a lot of people who have family members suffering from dementia and alzheimer's because it's a painful thing all of these memories gone when you look into the -- your loved one's eyes and they don't remember you. >> painful. >> very painful. very pa

had to get one with lucious. >> yeah. >> he look great that night. >> all right. taraji p.e. everyone was oh excited to see her and in addition to all the stars from empire i also got a chance to sit down with the stars of the show star inn clueing queen latifah >> how was the queen. >> she was the nicest most humble. >> really? >> sweetest person in the world. she was just so great to talk to. >> i'm glad that show is doing well. >> me too. not just for our local girl in it but you know the spin offs sometimes gets lost in it. >> exactly. >> and benjamin bratt as cute in person -- these are things we need to talk about. >> so cute in person and the charisma. you walk into those rooms with those larger than life personals you watched for years and they're so amazing and just reminder season four of empire and star this wednesday right here on fox. >> thanks, erin for bringing us all of that. we'll see them all week. all over to you. >> we'll see rumor willis in the next hour. >> she'll join us live. we'll chat with her. >> live in the lot of mayor bowser she's here to talk

>> is it going to be lio something gels. >> well i mean it's always lucious and cookie.. >> and we started with a lot of guest stars on the show. >> um-hmm. >> got a little bit away from that. what are we going to see this year? >> i mean, the guest stars was somthing that we kind of over did in season two and learned our lesson. and so it's always good toy focused on the family now. >> when we watch episode one are we going to be blown away in the first five minutes or is it going to build as the show goes on? >> well, that's such a good question. i don't know. you physical me after you see it. >> you are such a director and producer. [ laughter ] >> listen it's great to see you. the movie right now you're in town for screening tonight in d.c. i hope unjoy your time in d.c. rebel in the rye hits theaters on september 15th coming up this friday. make sure you go check it out. and look, i'm telling you the wardrobe everything else looks amazing and then season four we are only a few weeks away from the beginning of empire, september 27th. that begins right thanks for comi

waiting for lucious to come out of the alley. i'm here now at the venue waiting for the show to start, man. like it's me and a whole bunch of other comedians here tonight, man, but it's going to be a great show. we always have a good time. a lot of my material is based off of being a police officer. oh, man, it's hard being a guy. drink up tonight, because after the show i'm going to put my uniform on and pull you all over. oh, man, i can't even beat my son because of all this stuff happening in baltimore. my son messed up in school. i go in his room to go beat him, he turned around with a mike brown t-shirt and put his hands up. [laughter]. i turn around, his brother's videotaping, i said, i can't beat him. it's something i love to do. when it's something you love to do, you don't get tired. you don't get real. you just have the energy to do it. love you all, man, appreciate that. [applause]. now, that was a real comedian telling some real jokes, and not me being corny and trying to make people laugh. now, if you want to hear mo

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to the empire. >> to the empire. >> to my father. >> to lucious!elebrating empire's 20th anniversary. but andre is not the only one with something to hide. and for hakeem, that means taking break from the music. >> my character is really not into the mewing is right now because he's dealing with the baby so much and trying to, you know, keep from -- keep the baby away from the family behind cookie's back in interfering with his business. >> what do you think about that baby? you like that song? old man might like it, right? >> what about auntie die die. >> the cast couldn't give away much else because about the new season because of spoilers i was able to learn little more about what life is like behind the scenes for the stars of the s show. >> i know behind the scenes i hear you're the jokester that plays jokes on everyone and you always get taraji. >> i feel like i get like an urban legend. >> is that a bad reputation. >> i'm not the only one that's funny onset and i'm not the only one that plays tricks. ya'll -- >> what did they do. >> no trick

you can catch it and watch it on demand of course but last season you remember lucious was waking fromafter being hit by a car and whole family mush ago head with "empire" despite memory loss issues. >> last episode i remember car bomb went off he went flying what happens next i have it on dvr. don't ruin it for me. >> any time you civ a warm delicious pumpkin spice cookie contact insomnia. >> we love them here we get them at the newsroom. >> we do. >> i never see those cookies. >> they're warm and amazing. now they added pumpkin spice to the help u. >> insomnia i don't get them send them over. our producer says she'll bring it. thank you. they're offing new pumpkin spice nut cookie hints of cinnamon and pieces of roostsed wall nuts. first time in insomnia 14 year history it offered police officer. pumpkin spice nut will be available throughout the fall season and hopefully make its way to fox 29. >> before he we head to break time to introduce you to a furry friend looking for forever home. daisy. domestic short hair loves to lounge around looking for forever family that loves her ind

lucious is recovering she has to step in and lead empire.>> are you a fan. >> empire season four he has to be a fan much it's called paycheck. wednesday september 27th at 8:00 a week from wednesday. >> here's the thing. they're great actors and actresses and the plots are g good. but it's becoming predictable to me because i think he's faking. >> yes, i was just thinking that same thing, too. or even if he's not faking he's going to start to remember but still act like he doesn't. >> i agree. >> how many times are we going to s then he does something else and then she's crying. >> that's what star couples do. didn't you ever watch a soap opera. >> all about the celebrity couple they're together and there's anx and they're apart and then they're back together much that's what soap opera is. >> it's getting daytime soap opera like. >> it started out over a feud for long time. it's still excellent. >> let's talk about something more pleasant. >> mariah carey. vh1 hiphop honors they went back to the old school. they took it back to the '90's wit

if you didn't watch, spoiler alert it looks like lucious lot of more than just his memory.egins with empire's 20th anniversary celebration and highlights how the lyon family adjusting to their new circumstances sheds more light on the role dem my moore' nurse claudia will play in dwight's recovery and why the family isn't too keen on her. as for the actual crossover portion of the episode, stars carl lot at a shows up at empire's party where she reveals she and lucious have a musical history together and wants him to help with her girl group. now, before the episode aired erin had chance to sit down with queen latifah and benjamin bratt to talk about the cross over and whether or not carl lot at a will be a good music manag control. >> how is her style as a manager taking over different than yours? >> you know, i don't think -- i don't think necessarily too impressed yet. >> no. >> the reason why high he'll was great managers owe he's a great hustler and he's still in the hustle game. it's not to say shawne hustler. she's a business woman. she obviously runs a successful bu

. >> cookie, i would rather wait and true lucious instead. >> you can do that because you'll stay aliveiladelphia. >> thank you. >> i saw your dad last night. he's in one of our parks called rittenhouse square, good thing, very nice, and he was walking around with a guy and just had a t-shirt on. there he is, right there. he's going to be making a movie here with m. night shyamalon, so if i run into him, what could i say to him that would shock him say i was talking to your daughter the other day and she told me -- what would it be? >> oh, man. oh, i don't even know. he's so goofy. we always have so much fun together. >> he's goofy. well, i'll get along with him very well then. welcome to empire too. >> thank you. >> that is a big hit. and your mother's on it? >> yes, she is. we're -- it is pretty pun that both of us get to do it at the same time. quite a fun time. >> that's cool. now, tori ash is your character. who is tori? >> tori is this kind of really ingenious but also extremely kind of volatile rock star who casino every met jamal in rehab, and they became friends, and now she's

. >> lucious lyo there was a kerri-lee for this empire and star two shows coming back to fox. the nbc show returning on september 26th on nbc. >> right around the corner. thanks, kev. >> all righty. >>> it is the latest and greatest eye brow trend for you. well it might not be for everybody and i think that's true. it's not for us. coming up next we're talking about the rise of the swig gel brow and showing how to get the look for yourself if you dare. ♪ >> rook it for a night out. for halloween. [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ ♪ do you want to do a monster check? yes. no monsters. ♪ ♪ how about the drawer? ♪ ♪ no monsters. nightly monster checks are how grant makes home his. and homegoods is what makes it all possible. amazing finds. always great prices. make home yours. ♪ why do they do this? [ laughter ] >> they know it is my jam right now. why do they do it? >> we love -- >> focus. lying everything else fashion there's always a new trend this time it's for eye brows. so in the 80s it was all about the strong brow. i was going to say