The network also wanted to give Empire a strong send-off by pairing it with returning medical drama The Resident, according to Collier.
Empire will end after its next season, Fox has announced, almost two months after charges against its actor Jussie Smollett were dropped.
“We are turning the final season of Empire into a large television event,” Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier told a teleconference on Monday.
The hip-hop drama, in which Smollett has played R&B singer and songwriter Jamal Lyon, will get a sixth season before wrapping up for good in the fall.
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