EMPIRE (Dstv)

After Empire season four finale saw Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), Lucious (Terrence Howard) and the rest of the music mogul family getting knocked down (and five people die), the new teaser for the fifth season shows the family preparing to get back up again.

“According to the streets, you and Cookie dropped off the face of the earth, because you let your boy Eddie Barker just guerilla your whole company,” a radio DJ says to Lucious in an interview, as we see glimpses from the shootout at the end of season four and the family patriarch standing over a coffin.

Now Eddie (Forrest Whittaker) is in charge while Andre (Trai Byers) is in jail, assumedly for the part he played in Anika’s (Grace Gealey) death.

Meanwhile, Cookie and Lucious are working to start afresh and “recreate magic from scratch” with the help of Jamal (Jussie Smollett), who is sure his parents will reign again. Can they rebuild? Well, the cover of Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down playing in the background, might be a clue.

Catch the first episode Thursday at 8.45pm on Fox Africa (DStv 125).