Malik Yoba fired for drugs, these are the latest allegations attempting to explain Yoba’s quick exit from “Empire.”

Malik Yoba’s quick exit from “Empire,” must come as a major disappointment to the actor as the success of this show could have eventually made him a household name. While shooting the eleventh episode of the first season of “Empire,” Yoba was told his character of Vernon Turner would die off in the next episode, which was the season finale, according to The Spread It on March

Cookie Lyon is the new lion of prime time.

Fox’s Empire is shattering Nielsen records as the only series to rise in the ratings for seven consecutive weeks since its premiere, climbing steadily from 9.9 million same-day viewers for its Jan. 7 opener to 13.9 million last week. With DVR-delayed viewing factored in, it’s currently averaging 15.6 million viewers a week. And among young adults, it’s climbed 37% in seven weeks, the biggest gain for a new series since Fox’s teen soap The OC in 2003

Tuesday’s  series premiere of Tyler Perry’s If Loving You is Wrong became the most watched series premiere in OWN network history after drawing 1.93 million viewers. 

The episode delivered a 1.47 rating in the key “women aged 25-54 (W25-54)” demo, which translates to a 206% increase vs. one year ago, and the ratings built every quarter hour among W25-54 climbing 13% over the course of the hour, the network announced today, citing Nielsen.

The second episode at 10 p.m. delivered 1.92 million v