‘Empire’ to end after its next season

 Empire is set to come to an end after its upcoming sixth season, it has been confirmed.

The show, which debuted in January 2015 and stars the likes of Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, ended its fifth season last week. That run of episodes, however, largely played out against the backdrop of the February arrest of one of its stars Jussie Smollett, who was accused by police of staging a racially-motivated and homophobic attack back in January. Smollett always vehemently denied staging the attack, and all of the charges against him were dropped by prosecutors in March.