{"id":92086,"date":"2017-07-12T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=92086"},"modified":"2017-07-12T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:33:14","slug":"queen-latifah-appear-empire-premiere-jussie-smollett-set-star-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2017\/07\/12\/queen-latifah-appear-empire-premiere-jussie-smollett-set-star-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah To Appear In &#8220;Empire&#8221; Premiere, Jussie Smollett Set For &#8220;STAR&#8221; Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a matter of time.<\/p>\n<p>FOX confirms that the season premieres of &#8220;Empire&#8221; and &#8220;STAR&#8221; will feature a crossover element.<\/p>\n<p>Per an official FOX announcement, Queen Latifah (as her &#8220;STAR&#8221; character Carlotta) will appear on the fourth season premiere of &#8220;Empire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later that night, Jussie Smollett (as his &#8220;Empire&#8221; character Jamal) will appear on the second season premiere of &#8220;STAR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Empire&#8221; and &#8220;STAR&#8221; season premieres are set for 8PM EDT and 9PM EDT, respectively, on September 27.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; In conjunction with the crossover announcement, FOX shared brief plot details for the two episodes.  Neither reveals the nature of the character crossovers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Empire:<\/b> On the brink of Empire Entertainment\u2019s 20th anniversary, Lucious is making his first public appearance after the explosion in Las Vegas, while all members of the Lyon family, as well as Lucious\u2019 nurse, Claudia (guest star Demi Moore), have their own interests in Lucious regaining his physical and mental faculties.<\/p>\n<p><b>STAR:<\/b> The girls \u2013 with Carlotta as their manager \u2013 continue to face roadblocks, despite their victory at Atlanta NextFest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOX confirms an &#8220;Empire,&#8221; &#8220;Star&#8221; crossover event for September 27.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[3406,255,3412,9345,7483],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Queen Latifah To Appear In &quot;Empire&quot; Premiere, Jussie Smollett Set For &quot;STAR&quot; Premiere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was only a matter of time. 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