Add Empire to the growing list of shows which will see its current season end prematurely due to the entertainment industry shutdown prompted by the coronavirus crisis.
At the end of Tuesday's episode, titled "Love Me Still," Fox announced that the show's sixth and final season will now only have 18 episodes, rather than the planned 20, as production was halted before the show could finish shooting its last two episodes.
With the 18th episode now functioning as the series finale, footage from the 19th episode — which was halfway through filming when the shutdown took effect — will be edited in to make the ending smoother, Deadline originally reported.