Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe end of Empire may be just have been a stepping stone to a whole lot of Cookie.Development of a spinoff of the Danny Strong and Lee Daniels created series’ iconic matriarch is the first order of business in a new first look deal that Taraji P.
Henson has signed with 20th Century Fox TV.To that end, the Golden Globe winning and Emmy and Academy Award nominated Henson has teamed up with Working Title alum Christine Conley to have the latter run her newly formed TPH Entertainment.
The long rumored Cookie series will be penned and EP’d by Strong, Stacy Littlejohn and Yolonda Lawrence. The trio will serve as co-showrunners on the spinoffs if the Henson, Daniels, Brian Grazer and Samie Falvey EP’d.
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