Mead Public Library (Sheboygan)

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Empire (Television program : 2015). Season 1.

Title:

Empire. Season 1 / Imagine Television ; Lee Daniels Entertainment ; Danny Strong Productions ; Little Chicken Productions ; 20th Century Fox Television ; created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, California : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2015]

Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 528 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

widescreen (1.78:1) 24 fps

NTSC

video file DVD video Region 1

Summary:

After musical mogul Lucious Lyon is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease, he must choose which of his three sons with succeed him at the legendary Empire entertainment company. The game changes when ex-wife Cookie returns from prison. This groundbreaking series features a pulsating soundtrack from legendary music hit maker Timbaland.

Audience

TV rating: TV-14.

Contents

Disc 1. Pilot ; The outspoken king ; The devil quotes scripture -- Disc 2. False imposition ; Dangerous bonds ; Out, damned spot -- Disc 3. Our dancing days ; The Lyon's roar ; Unto the breach -- Disc 4. Sins of the father ; Die but once (Finale, Part 1) -- Who I am (Finale, Part 2).

Cast

Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Jussie Smollett, Bryshere Y. Gray, Trai Byers, Gabourey Sidibe, Naomi Campbell, Grace Gealey, Malik Yoba, Kaitlin Doubleday, Ta'Rhonda Jones.

Notes:

Originally broadcast on television by Fox in 2015.

Widescreen (1.78:1).

Special features: Uncut musical performances: No apologies, Keep it movin', I wanna love you, You're so beautiful (Ensemble version), Whatever makes you happy; Commentary on Pilot with cats & crew.

DVD, NTSC region 1, dual layer, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, surround Dolby Digital 2.0.

In English or dubbed Spanish; French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; closed-captioned.

Title from container.

Subjects:

Music trade -- Drama.

Families -- Drama.

African American families -- Drama.

Rap musicians -- Drama.

Rap (Music) -- Drama.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- Drama.

Genre:

Television series.