--- title: How to Watch New Episodes of Empire Online for Free description: The first episode of Empire's second season will air Wednesday, September 23 at 9 p.m. EST on FOX. But options to stream the Emmy-nominated drama online are limited. authors: - name: Matt Bemer url: https://money.com/author/matt-bemer/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 3 covers: - Career Advice social: - https://x.com/mattbemer former_staff: true published: '2015-09-22T16:52:05.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T06:52:44.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Cable TV - Saving word_count: 446 canonical: https://money.com/empire-season-two-stream-online/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Guest star Ludacris (Chris Bridges) as Officer McKnight and Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon in the “Without A Country” episode of EMPIRE airing Wednesday, September 30 on FOX.](https://img.money.com/2015/09/150921_em_empireforfree.jpg) *Guest star Ludacris (Chris Bridges) as Officer McKnight and Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon in the “Without A Country” episode of EMPIRE airing Wednesday, September 30 on FOX.* The first episode of [Empire](https://time.com/4042567/empire-artist-kehinde-wiley/)'s second season will air Wednesday, September 23 at 9 p.m. EST on FOX. But for a growing number of TV watchers that have dropped their cable subscriptions, options to watch the [Emmy-nominated](https://time.com/4041876/emmys-2015-winners-full-list/) drama online as the action unfolds live are limited. While networks such as CNN are catering to cord-cutters by [offering free live streams of popular broadcast events](https://money.com/republican-debate-watch-stream-online/), FOX will not live stream Empire—or any of its primetime shows, for that matter. That means that your only option to [watch the show live](https://money.com/empire-cookie-lyon-advice/) without a cable subscription would be to purchase an HD antenna and hook it up to your TV. HD antennas are cheap (Amazon sells a basic HD antenna for $8) and bring basic primetime networks (i.e. FOX) to your television screen without a cable subscription. But this option only works if you have a TV. There are also a few [streaming options](https://money.com/stream-tv-cheap/) out there if you're willing to wait until after Empire airs. ***Read Next: [Unsolicited Financial Advice for Empire's Cookie Lyon](https://money.com/empire-cookie-lyon-advice/)*** You can [stream full episodes](https://money.com/cut-the-cord/) of Empire the day after they air on [FOX Now](http://www.fox.com/empire) from your TV, computer, game console, cable box, or mobile device for free. There is a catch: FOX offers viewers a 1-time, 12-hour temporary pass to all of its streaming content. After that, FOX Now requires a valid cable subscription. So this option might let you stream Wednesday's episode, but you're out of luck for the rest of the season. Hulu Plus subscribers will be able to watch [full episodes of Empire](http://www.hulu.com/empire) the day after they air in HD on their TV, mobile device, and computer. The entire first season of Empire is also available on Hulu Plus for those of you that want to binge-watch the show before Wednesday's premiere. This might be the best option considering that a Hulu Plus membership starts at $7.99/month. And you could be eligible for a [30-day free trial](http://www.hulu.com/start) of Hulu Plus. And a final option for cord-cutters with a Playstation 4: If you live in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, or the San Francisco bay area, you can purchase Playstation VUE, a new cloud-based TV service that offers live TV, movies, and sports [without a cable or satellite subscription](https://money.com/streaming-packages-cord-cutting-cable/). But don't celebrate just yet because VUE starts at $49.99/month, which isn't much less than your standard cable subscription. However, Playstation is offering a [30-day free trial](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstationnetwork/playstation-vue/) of the service, so you could watch the first month of Empire this way without paying a single bill. Just be sure to cancel VUE before an automatic charge occurs. ***Read next: [How to Watch All the TV You Want Without Paying a Cable Bill](https://money.com/cable-tv-without-paying-bill/)*** ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/empire-season-two-stream-online/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "TV", "item": "https://money.com/tv/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "How to Watch New Episodes of Empire Online for Free" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/empire-season-two-stream-online/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/empire-season-two-stream-online/", "name": "How to Watch New Episodes of Empire Online for Free", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-09-22T16:52:05.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/empire-season-two-stream-online/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/empire-season-two-stream-online/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-16T06:52:44.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "How to Watch New Episodes of Empire Online for Free", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/09/150921_em_empireforfree.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1400, "caption": "150921_EM_EmpireforFree" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matt Bemer", "url": "https://money.com/author/matt-bemer/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/matt-bemer/#author", "email": "matt.bemer@moneymail.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/mattbemer" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-09-22T16:52:05.000Z", "description": "The first episode of Empire's second season will air Wednesday, September 23 at 9 p.m. EST on FOX. 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