Empire Season 3.

This season (the third of Empire) has opened up all Black Lives Matter guns a blazing with the big reveal of who fell from the roof and bit the dust.

Empire has been one of those rare success stories in recent US Network TV history. Like Glee it mixes music with drama and unlike Smash it doesn't suck and get all lost in it's storytelling.

Smash was a massive disaster for NBC in it's poorly viewed second season, after starting with over 11 million viewers in it's first episode of season one, the show slumped to below 2 million in it's second outing.

Empire on the other hand started at just under 10 million viewers but when it returned in it's second year it was up to almost 17 million viewers.

Yes it's slightly down this year but for Fox it's still the jewel in the crown of a network with some real drama (no pun intended) on it's hand. Scream Queens is rating less than 2 million viewers in it's last poor outing, Gotham has failed to gain over 4 million viewers this season and there other DC series Lucifer is also under the 5 million viewer mark.

So Empire looks extremely healthy in comparison to it's other Fall season shows. With newcomer Star by Empire creator Lee Daniels looking to be another Star performer for the network new series Pitch is off to a rather pitchy start.

Lee Daniels is a visionary and the guest stars on Empire to date have been nothing short of amaze balls. Let's hope this series of Empire continues the great music and great guests. I would love Kendrick, Anderson or Chance the Rapper to have a bit of a crack in 2016-2017.

The first track Freedom from episode one was another great Jamal joint whilst Hakeem continues to only get better looking. Cookie continues to steal/own the show and even young Precious is coming into her own.

Look if you want drama plus some Timbaland produced beats EMPIRE is the show for you (and me), still (along with How to Get Away with Murder (also in it's third outing)) one of my favourite US dramas right now. Boundary pushing and touching on the real issues of the world, Empire is a star studded tour de force!