Every once in a while a television show comes around that takes over the airwaves and becomes a permanent fixture of the US cultural zeitgeist. Within the past few years ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Girls’, and ‘True Detective’ have occupied this space at one time or the other.
This year’s tv darling, ‘Empire’ has become all that anyone can talk about. The Fox show has attracted tremendous ratings and is set for a highly anticipated second season. If one man is to be believed though, the whole thing is one big rip-off.
Ron Newt is that man, whom TMZ describes as a friend of the Jackson family. He’s suing Terrence Howard, Lee Howard, ‘Empire’ and others, claiming the hit show is a carbon copy of his film about his life as a “gangster, pimp, and drug dealer”.