He was active in television in the latter half of the decade after achieving sobriety.[2] From 2016 to 2018, Hanks appeared as Charlie, the father of character Sierra Morton's child, on the American version of Shameless.[3] He played rapper Blake on hip-hop drama Empire from 2018 to 2019.[8] In 2020, he had a cameo in the World War II film Greyhound starring his father.[9] Starting later that year, he portrayed Joey Maldini, the best friend of a hit-and-run victim, in the Showtime courtroom miniseries Your Honor.[3]