Empire will have a shortened final season

Due to the coronavirus, the sixth and final season of Empire will end a bit sooner than expected. The last season will now consist of eighteen episodes, instead of twenty. Production on Empire was halted due to the coronavirus. The finale wasn't recorded at the time, but the first couple of episodes had already released. The entire season couldn't be shifted into next year. The eighteenth episode was the last episode on which production had finished before it was halted. FOX has now decided that this episode will also be its last.

To properly end the series, footage from the nineteenth episode has been added to the eighteenth episode. The cast and crew were halfway through production when it was halted.


Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard in Empire

Production on the final season of Supernatural was also halted due to the coronavirus, which may result in an incomplete ending. It is in the same situation, eighteen episodes out of twenty have been entirely produced. For now, thirteen episodes have been released. The creators of Supernatural have decided to eventually produce the final two episodes and then air the last seven episodes.