Power

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Power · Staged record CTL-W-1317 · Entity Depth Program · 906 words · Evidence grade: VERIFIED (canonical master, carried unchanged) · Researched 2026-10-25

Power is an American crime drama television series recorded in the CultureTechLens knowledge graph as a work of type tv_series, first released in 2014. The graph's verification, drawn from Starz and The Futon Critic, states the production frame precisely: a Starz drama series broadcast from June 7, 2014, to February 9, 2020, for six seasons and sixty-three episodes, created by Courtney A. Kemp. Starz's own series page, as quoted in that verification, describes the property as six seasons of drama published in 2014. A Starz press release carried by Bell Media corroborates the creative credits in the form quoted in the graph record: Power is executive produced by series creator and showrunner Courtney A. Kemp along with Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, and it premiered on the premium cable network in 2014. An earlier Starz announcement of the series debut, reported from the network's release, gives the same structure: executive produced by Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, created by Courtney Kemp Agboh, who would serve as executive producer and showrunner, produced in association with CBS Television Studios, with a first season of eight hour-long episodes.

The premise is stated in the contemporary Starz material at a level this entry does not embellish. That announcement describes Power as a crime drama set in two different worlds, the glamorous New York club scene and the brutal drug trade. It presents James 'Ghost' St. Patrick as a man who has a beautiful wife, a Manhattan penthouse, and a new nightclub in New York called Truth, which caters to the elite, while Truth hides the reality that it is a front for Ghost's criminal underworld, a lucrative drug network serving the wealthy and powerful. The same material frames the central tension as Ghost being seduced by the prospect of a legitimate life while everything precious to him is threatened, and asks whether, once you are in, you can ever get out. Parade's later franchise account states the same premise in compressed form: created by Courtney A. Kemp and executive produced by 50 Cent, the crime drama follows James 'Ghost' St. Patrick, a New York City drug kingpin, as he attempts to leave his criminal life behind and become a legitimate nightclub owner, while his drug partner Tommy Egan, rival gangsters, and federal investigators threaten that exit, and his former flame, Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Valdes, causes problems with his wife, Tasha.

The principal cast and the graph's character neighbors follow from those sources. The Starz announcement names Omari Hardwick as James 'Ghost' St. Patrick, Joseph Sikora as Tommy Egan, childhood best friend and business partner to Ghost, and Naturi Naughton as Tasha St. Patrick, wife, confidant, and willing accomplice to James. It also names Lela Loren as Angela Valdes, an old flame of James's who reenters his life. The graph's remaining featured characters are Tariq St. Patrick, Kanan Stark, and Dre Coleman, with Courtney Kemp attached as creator. Parade identifies Tariq as Ghost's son in its account of the sequel series that follows him after the original finale. Reporting on the original production identifies Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson not only as an executive producer but also as the performer who played Kanan, a role that connects the graph's Kanan Stark neighbor to the executive producer already documented in the Starz credits. No performer mapping for Dre Coleman is asserted in this entry beyond the character's presence in the graph, because the Starz page quoted in the verification names cast members without mapping every role.

The franchise that followed the original series is documented in Parade's account and is the main reason the graph's single Power node carries weight beyond a six-season run. Parade reports that the original series ran from 2014 to 2020, was not abruptly canceled, and spawned an entire franchise, with Power Book II: Ghost continuing the story after the 2020 series finale by following Ghost's son, Tariq. It identifies Power Book III: Raising Kanan as a prequel series set in the 1990s, and Power Book IV: Force as following Tommy's story after the events of the flagship's ending, as he left New York City for Chicago. That Chicago destination gives the franchise a direct, sourced connection to CultureTechLens's home city in the sequel record, even though the original Power itself is a New York series in every source used here. Parade calls the original Starz's best ever series in its headline framing for the show's later streaming arrival, and its account treats the ending as one the writers chose, with the story continuing through the rest of the franchise.

For CultureTechLens, Power's verified place rests on that combined record: a Starz premiere and finale with exact dates, a six-season, sixty-three-episode run, a named creator and showrunner in Courtney A. Kemp, a documented executive producer and cast member in Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, a premise sourced to Starz's own launch material rather than to plot summaries, and a franchise documented by Parade that carried its central family and its Tommy Egan character forward, including to Chicago. The entry deliberately separates those verified production facts from interpretation. What the sources support is that a Black-created, Black-led premium-cable crime drama built around a nightclub owner living a double life became, in Parade's account, the foundation for a multi-series franchise on Starz in the 2010s and into the 2020s. That is the claim the evidence carries, and it is sufficient for the graph's purpose without adding unsourced ratings, episode plots, or character arcs.

Sources for this record

• Power — Episodes / Series Page — Starz
  Claims supported: Starz drama series; six seasons; published 2014; principal cast list as quoted in graph verification.
• Starz Announces January 5th, 2020 Return for the Final Episodes of Power — Starz Press Release — Bell Media / The Lede (Starz press release)
  Claims supported: Power is executive produced by series creator and showrunner Courtney A. Kemp along with Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson; premiered on the premium cable network in 2014.
• 50 Cent-Produced Starz Drama Series 'Power' Debuts June 7 — Good Black News (reporting Starz announcement)
  Claims supported: Executive produced by Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson; crime drama in New York club scene and drug trade; Ghost, Truth nightclub as front, legitimate-life tension; Hardwick as Ghost, Sikora as Tommy Egan, Naughton as Tasha St. Patrick, Loren as Angela Valdes; created by Courtney Kemp Agboh as executive producer and showrunner; CBS Television Studios association.
• All 6 Seasons of Starz's Best Ever Series 'Power' Are Coming to Netflix — Parade
  Claims supported: Created by Courtney A. Kemp and executive produced by 50 Cent; premise with Tommy, rivals, investigators, Angela and Tasha; run 2014-2020 not abruptly canceled; franchise: Power Book II: Ghost following Tariq, Power Book III: Raising Kanan 1990s prequel, Power Book IV: Force following Tommy to Chicago.
• Courtney Kemp Responds After 50 Cent Says He's Done With Her — Baller Alert
  Claims supported: Starz picked up Power in 2013 with Kemp as creator and showrunner and 50 Cent as executive producer who also played Kanan; original ran six seasons and launched the named spinoffs.

Citations

Published October 25, 2026, from the head-verified staged record in the Entity Depth Program (Batches 001–003). Source: CultureTechLens