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Glee (TV series)

Glee (stylized as glee) is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015. It centers on the glee club called the New Directions at the fictional William McKinley High School which competes as a show choir while its disparate members deal with social issues, especially regarding sexuality, race, family, teen relationships and teamwork.

Glee
Genre
Created by
Starring
Ending theme"Time for Girl Talk"
ComposerJames S. Levine
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes121 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
Production locationsHollywood, California
Cinematography
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time40–48 minutes
58 minutes (season 2, episode 18)
Production companies
Distributor20th Television
Release
Original networkFox
Picture formatHDTV 720p
Audio format
Original releaseMay 19, 2009 (2009-05-19) –
March 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
Chronology
RelatedThe Glee Project

The initial twelve-member cast included Matthew Morrison as club director and Spanish teacher Will Schuester, Jane Lynch as scheming cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, Jayma Mays as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury, Jessalyn Gilsig as Will's wife Terri, and the eight original club members, including Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray, a popular cheerleader whose biggest struggle is her teenage pregnancy; Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel, a gay boy who feels conflicted by his sexuality and is bullied at school; Kevin McHale as Artie Abrams, who lives with a physical disability; Lea Michele as Rachel Berry, driven by her dreams of becoming a Broadway theatre star and the glee club's most obvious star singer; Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson, the school's star quarterback who sometimes appears not to be very smart; Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones, an African American girl who endeavors to be recognized for her talents and dreams of being a vocal diva; Mark Salling as Noah Puckerman, a teenage delinquent in need of direction; and Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina Cohen-Chang, a shy girl of Korean descent who longs to be popular and sometimes experiences racism. The main cast was altered throughout the series, including the addition of Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez, an unapologetically Latina cheerleader experiencing deep conflict over her sexuality, Harry Shum Jr. as Mike Chang, a dancer with Chinese roots whose parents do not support his dreams, and Heather Morris as Brittany Pierce, a ditzy cheerleader who is secretly a math prodigy and comes to realize she is bisexual.

The series was created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, the latter of whom first conceived of Glee as a film. The three wrote all of the show's episodes for the first two seasons, and Murphy and Falchuk initially served as the show's main directors. The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19, 2009, and the first season aired from September 9, 2009, to June 8, 2010. Subsequent seasons aired in September through May. The sixth and final season aired from January to March 2015.[2] Glee features on-screen performance-based musical numbers that were selected by Murphy, who aimed to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, and produced by Adam Anders and Peer Åström. Songs covered in the show were released through the iTunes Store during the week of broadcast, and a series of Glee albums have been released by Columbia Records. The music of Glee has been a commercial success, with over 36 million digital single sales and eleven million album sales worldwide through October 2011. The series' merchandise also includes DVD and Blu-ray releases, an iPad application, and karaoke games for the Wii home videogame console. There were live concert tours by the show's cast after the first and second seasons completed shooting; a concert film based on the 2011 tour, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, was produced by Murphy and Fox and directed by Kevin Tancharoen.

During its first season, Glee received generally favorable reviews from critics, with Metacritic's weighted average of 77 out of 100 based on 18 critical reviews. Glee has won many accolades. The season was nominated for 19 Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, six Satellite Awards and 57 other awards, with wins including the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy, and Emmy awards for Jane Lynch, guest-star Neil Patrick Harris and Murphy's direction of the pilot episode. In 2011, the show once again won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series, and Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer won Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively, and Gwyneth Paltrow won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. The show was also chosen by Fox to fill the coveted time slot that followed the network's coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011.

In 2013, in the wake of the death of Cory Monteith, and after his tribute episode "The Quarterback" aired, Murphy announced that the sixth season would be the series' last.[3] After 121 episodes and over 729 music performances, the series concluded on March 20, 2015.[4]

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedAverage total viewers
including DVR (millions)
Rank
First airedLast aired
122May 19, 2009 (2009-05-19)June 8, 2010 (2010-06-08)9.7733[5]
222September 21, 2010 (2010-09-21)May 24, 2011 (2011-05-24)10.1143[6]
322September 20, 2011 (2011-09-20)May 22, 2012 (2012-05-22)8.7156[7]
422September 13, 2012 (2012-09-13)May 9, 2013 (2013-05-09)8.2650[8]
520September 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)May 13, 2014 (2014-05-13)4.57105[9]
613January 9, 2015 (2015-01-09)March 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)3.14148[10]

The series centers on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio.[11] Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) takes over the glee club after the former teacher Sandy Ryerson (Stephen Tobolowsky) is fired for inappropriate contact with a student. With a rag-tag group of misfit teenagers, Will attempts to restore the glee club to its former glory while tending to his developing feelings for his co-worker, guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), as well as defending the glee club's existence from the conniving cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch). A major focus of the series is the students in the glee club: their relationships as couples, their love of singing and desire for popularity coming into conflict due to their membership in the low-status club, and the many vicissitudes of life in high school and as a teenager.

The first season features the fictional high school show choir New Directions competing for the first time on the show choir circuit, winning at the Sectionals competition (episode 13) but losing at Regionals (season finale/episode 22), while its members and faculty deal with sex, relationships, homosexuality, teenage pregnancy, disabilities, acceptance and other social issues. The central characters are glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), Will's wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), and glee club members Rachel (Lea Michele), Finn (Cory Monteith), Artie (Kevin McHale), Kurt (Chris Colfer), Mercedes (Amber Riley), Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), Puck (Mark Salling), and Quinn (Dianna Agron).

The second season follows the club through wins at the Sectionals (episode 9) and Regionals (episode 16) competitions before losing at the Nationals competition in New York City (season finale/episode 22), while its members and faculty deal with relationships, religion, homophobia, bullying, rumors, teenage drinking, death and other social issues. The season's stories revolve around the same Glee club members as first season, with Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera) and Brittany S. Pierce (Heather Morris) added to the main cast, along with Kurt's father Burt (Mike O'Malley).

The third season follows the club through wins at Sectionals (episode 8) and Regionals competitions (episode 14), before they win the Nationals competition (episode 21) in Chicago. The characters deal with gender identity, adoption, domestic abuse, teenage suicide, bullying, disabilities, texting while driving, college and other social issues. Glee club members added to the main cast were Mike Chang (Harry Shum Jr.) and transfer student Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss), while Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester was written out of the series and Mike O'Malley as Burt returned to recurring status. The McKinley High class of 2012 graduates at the end of the season.

The fourth season continues in Lima with a new generation of students but also follows some of the McKinley graduates from the third season, notably to the fictional New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts (NYADA) in New York City. The season follows the club through a loss at the Sectionals competition (episode 9) and subsequent reinstatement when the winning Dalton Academy Warblers were found to have used banned substances (human growth hormone) (episode 12) before winning at the Regionals competition (episode 22), which meant they would be attending their third consecutive National show choir competition. In the meantime, Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel navigate NYADA and their lives as aspiring performers, plus their relationships with Finn and Blaine. Issues during the season include sex, bulimia, gender identity, child molestation, dyslexia, school violence, and pregnancy scares. Former main cast members Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) and Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) were credited as guest stars, while previously recurring glee club member Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet) was promoted to the main cast.

The fifth season, unlike previous seasons, continues the school year begun in the previous season. The season shows the reigning champion glee club finishing second at Nationals competition (episode 11) before the club is permanently disbanded by Sue Sylvester, now school principal, for budgetary reasons (episode 12), leaving the focus on graduation. The show then jumps several months forward in time and deals entirely with the alumni's lives in New York City for the remainder of the season, including Rachel's successful Broadway debut. Throughout this season, the club and its alumni deal with relationships; death and mourning; body image, gay bashing, intimacy, and other social issues. Several main cast members dropped to recurring guest stars as of this season: Amber Riley as Mercedes, Mark Salling as Puck, Harry Shum Jr. as Mike and Heather Morris as Brittany. New main cast members included glee club members introduced in the fourth season: Melissa Benoist as Marley Rose, Alex Newell as Unique Adams, Blake Jenner as Ryder Lynn, Jacob Artist as Jake Puckerman, and Becca Tobin as Kitty Wilde. Actor Cory Monteith died during summer before the fifth season was shot; his character, Finn Hudson, died off-screen in the season's third episode, "The Quarterback".

The sixth and final season focuses on Rachel Berry, who returns to McKinley after her television pilot fails. She decides to reconstitute the glee club with all-new McKinley students and with Kurt's help. Will Schuester is now coaching rival club Vocal Adrenaline, while Blaine is coaching the Dalton Academy Warblers. All of the new main cast members from the fifth season have returned to guest star status in this final season when they appear, as well as Naya Rivera as Santana and Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina; Amber Riley as Mercedes rejoins the main cast, and Dot-Marie Jones as Coach Beiste joins the main cast for the first time. The cast members deal with gay marriage, gender identity, transitioning and other social issues. The newly reconstituted club wins the Nationals competition, Sue is fired as principal and Will is hired to be the principal of a McKinley High repurposed as a magnet arts school, with Sam as the new director of New Directions. The finale jumps five years into the future: Rachel has married Jesse St. James (Jonathan Groff), wins a Tony Award, and is a surrogate mother for Kurt and Blaine (who are themselves Broadway stars). Artie has directed Tina in a film, Mercedes is a highly successful recording artist, and Sue has just been re-elected Vice President of the United States. The McKinley auditorium is renamed after Finn.

Cast and characters

In casting Glee, Murphy sought out actors who could identify with the rush of starring in theatrical roles. Instead of using traditional network casting calls, he spent three months on Broadway, where he found Matthew Morrison, who had previously starred on stage in Hairspray and The Light in the Piazza; Lea Michele, who starred in Spring Awakening; and Jenna Ushkowitz, who had been in the Broadway revival of The King and I.[12]

 
Matthew Morrison was cast after Murphy spent three months observing actors on Broadway.

Actors without any theatrical experience needed to demonstrate, during their auditions, that they could also sing and dance. Chris Colfer had no previous professional experience, but Murphy wrote in the character Kurt Hummel for him.[12] Jayma Mays auditioned with the song "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" from The Rocky Horror Show, while Cory Monteith initially submitted a tape of himself acting only, and was requested to submit a second, musical tape, in which he sang "a cheesy, '80s music-video-style version" of REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling".[12] Kevin McHale came from a boy-band background, having previously been part of the group Not Like Them. He explained that the diversity of the cast's backgrounds reflects the range of different musical styles within the show itself: "It's a mix of everything: classic rock, current stuff, R&B. Even the musical theatre stuff is switched up. You won't always recognize it."[12] Jane Lynch was originally supposed to have a recurring role as Sue Sylvester,[13] but was made a series regular when a Damon Wayans pilot she was working on for ABC fell through.[14] The cast is contracted for a potential three Glee films,[15] with their contract stating that "[The actor] hereby grants Fox three exclusive, irrevocable options to engage [the actor] in up to, respectively, three feature-length motion pictures."[16] Murphy said in December 2010 that he wasn't interested in doing a Glee movie "as a story", and added, "I might do it as a live concert thing."[17] Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, filmed during the 2011 Glee Live! In Concert! tour, was released on August 12, 2011.[18]

 
Cory Monteith portrayed glee club member Finn Hudson.

Glee has featured as many as fifteen main roles with star billing, after starting with twelve. Morrison plays Will Schuester, McKinley High's Spanish teacher, who becomes glee-club director and hopes to restore it to its former glory.[19] Lynch plays Sue Sylvester, head coach of the "Cheerios" cheerleading squad, and the Glee Club's nemesis.[14] Mays appears as Emma Pillsbury, the school's mysophobic guidance counselor who has feelings for Will,[20] and Jessalyn Gilsig plays Terri Schuester, Will's wife whom he eventually divorces after five years of marriage and the discovery that she has faked being pregnant instead of revealing she had suffered a false pregnancy.[21] Michele plays Rachel Berry, talented star of the glee club whose ambition sometimes causes her to be insensitive toward others. Often bullied by the Cheerios and football players, she grows closer to them as the show progresses and begins an on-and-off relationship with Finn Hudson starting in season one; they become engaged in season three.[21] Monteith played Finn, star quarterback of the school's football team who risks alienation by his friends after joining the glee club.[21] Also in the club are Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones, a fashion-conscious diva who resents having to sing back-up but eventually finds her place in the choir; Colfer as Kurt Hummel, a fashionable gay man countertenor who is often bullied by the jocks in the school;[22] McHale as Artie Abrams, a guitar player and paraplegic who longs to be seen for his personality rather than only his physical injuries; and Ushkowitz as Tina Cohen-Chang, a painfully shy Asian American student who fakes a speech impediment as a defense mechanism. Dianna Agron plays Quinn Fabray, Finn's cheerleader girlfriend, who later joins the glee club to keep an eye on him. Mark Salling plays Noah "Puck" Puckerman, a good friend of Finn's on the football team who at first disapproves of Finn joining the glee club, but later joins it himself. Naya Rivera and Heather Morris portray Cheerios and glee club vocalists Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce respectively and were originally recurring actors, but were promoted to series regulars in the second season.[23] Mike O'Malley, who plays Kurt's father Burt Hummel, also became a series regular on season two.[24] Gilsig and O'Malley no longer appeared on the list of starring actors at the beginning of the third season, though O'Malley was a recurring guest star in at least six episodes during the season.[25] Two actors were promoted to series regulars as of the third season: Harry Shum Jr. as football player and glee club member Mike Chang and Darren Criss as former Dalton Academy Warbler and new club member Blaine Anderson, both of whom started as recurring actors, Shum in the first season and Criss in the second.[26] For the fourth season, Chord Overstreet, who started as a recurring actor in the second season, playing glee club member Sam Evans, was promoted to the main cast,[27] while Agron and Mays were credited as recurring guest stars.

Many of the original characters graduated from McKinley High at the end of the third season. Murphy said, "We didn't want to have a show where they were in high school for eight years. We really wanted to be true to that experience."[28] Adult characters played by Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch would remain to provide continuity to the series,[29] though according to Falchuk, some students—Rachel, Finn and Kurt in particular—would likely remain on the show after they graduate.[30] In May 2012, Murphy said that just because a character on the show graduates high school does not mean that they are leaving, "A lot of people have been writing Dianna's off the show, Amber's off the show — they're not off the show. I think Amber was talking about that bittersweet feeling of, 'I'll never be in the choir room with that exact group of people.' At least that's what she told me ... When I read that [tweet,] I said, 'I think people will misconstrue that.' She's excited about where her character is going. They all are. I wanted to do the right thing by all of them." He then continued: "They're all coming back. Anyone who is a regular is coming back. Everyone said yes."[31]

On June 28, 2013, the media reported that Morris, Riley, Salling, and Shum would be changing from starring status to guest starring roles for the fifth season, and on the following day that Jacob Artist, Melissa Benoist, Blake Jenner, Alex Newell, and Becca Tobin, who play Jake Puckerman, Marley Rose, Ryder Lynn, Wade "Unique" Adams, and Kitty Wilde, respectively, were all being promoted to the show's main cast.[32]

On July 13, 2013, Cory Monteith was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, after failing to check out. Staff were sent to his room where it was then that his body was discovered. An autopsy completed on July 15 indicated that he died of alcohol and heroin overdose.[33][34] On July 20, 2013, Ryan Murphy said in various media outlets that Cory would have a tribute in season five's third episode, which would deal with the death of Monteith's character, Finn.[35]

On July 30, 2013, Mays confirmed that she would depart the show after the fifth season to work on other projects, but stated that she would be open to returning as a guest star in the future.[36]

On July 7, 2014, it was confirmed that Rivera and Ushkowitz would be placed on a recurring status for the sixth and final season.[37] On August 28, a website revealed that Amber Riley would once again become a regular along with Dot-Marie Jones while Jayma Mays would be on a recurring status.[38]

Production

Conception

Ian Brennan conceived Glee based on his own experience as a member of the Prospect High School show choir in Mount Prospect, Illinois.[39] He initially envisioned Glee as a film, rather than a television series, and wrote the first draft in August 2005 with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies.[39] He completed the script in 2005, but could not generate interest in the project for several years.[40] Mike Novick, a television producer and a friend of Brennan's from Los Angeles, was a member of the same gym as Ryan Murphy, and gave him a copy of Brennan's script.[41] Murphy had been in a show choir in college and felt he could relate to the script. Murphy and his Nip/Tuck colleague Brad Falchuk suggested that Glee be produced as a television show. The script was entirely rewritten,[40] and was picked up by Fox within fifteen hours of being received. Murphy attributed that, in part, to the network's success with American Idol. "It made sense for the network with the biggest hit in TV, which is a musical, to do something in that vein," he said.[42] Murphy and Falchuk became the show's executive producers and showrunners, Brennan became a co-executive producer and Novick a producer.[42] Brennan, Falchuk and Murphy started by writing "all the episodes".[43]

Glee is set at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio.[44] Murphy chose a Midwest setting as he himself grew up in Indiana, and recalled childhood visits to Ohio to the Kings Island theme park.[45] Although set in Lima, the show is filmed at Paramount Studios and Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood.[46]

Murphy has said that he has never seen a High School Musical film, to which Glee has been compared, and that his interest lay in creating a "postmodern musical", rather than "doing a show where people burst into song", drawing more heavily on the format of Chicago.[47] Murphy intended the show to be a form of escapism. "There's so much on the air right now about people with guns, or sci-fi, or lawyers running around. This is a different genre, there's nothing like it on the air at the networks and cable. Everything's so dark in the world right now, that's why Idol worked. It's pure escapism," he said.[42] Murphy intended to make a family show to appeal to adults as well as children, with adult characters starring equally alongside the teenage leads,[42] and as of October 2009 he had already mapped out plans for the series covering three years of broadcast.[48]

Writing

The three creators—Murphy, Falchuk, and Brennan—plan the stories together. For the first two seasons, they were the only writers, and after taking joint credit for the pilot episode and the episode that opened the fall 2009 season, they began rotating taking a single auctorial credit, based in large part on the person "who's taken the lead in story breaking or who wrote a draft". Brennan noted that the writing process is "fast and loose, with the emphasis on fast", and quotes Murphy as having said, in terms of their roles in episode creation, "I'm sort of the brain. Brad's sort of the heart. Ian's sort of the funny bone", which Brennan says "is true in a lot of ways". Some of the characters are written more by one writer than by the others. Brennan writes most of Sue's material, and Falchuk frequently writes the scenes between Kurt and Burt Hummel, though Murphy contributes a great deal to Kurt.[49]

Starting with season three, a writing staff of six was hired: Ali Adler, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Marti Noxon, Michael Hitchcock, Matt Hodgson and Ross Maxwell.[50] The season's fourth episode, "Pot o' Gold", was written by Adler, the first not credited to the show's three creators.[51][52]

Adler and Noxon did not return for the show's fourth season and instead House writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner, and Stacy Traub were hired.

Music and choreography

The series features numerous song covers sung onscreen by the characters.[53] Ryan Murphy was responsible for selecting all of the songs used, and has said that he strove to maintain a balance between chart hits and show tunes: "I want there to be something for everybody in every episode. That's a tricky mix, but that's very important—the balancing of that."[41] According to Murphy, the song choices are integral to script development, "Each episode has a theme at its core. After I write the script, I will choose songs that help to move the story along."[54] In a 2010 interview with Allison Kugel, Chris Colfer noted that "there have been a couple of times when I have gone to Ryan Murphy (Glee creator) and told him a couple of things that have happened to me, and then he writes it into the show. Or he'll ask me what song I would want to sing, in this situation or in that situation. I don't think any of us directly try to give input on the character or on the storyline, but they definitely steal things from us."[55] For the second season, a shift toward using more Top 40 songs was seen, in an effort to appeal more to the 18–49 demographic.[56]

Murphy was surprised at the ease with which use of songs was approved by the record labels approached, and explained: "I think the key to it is they loved the tone of it. They loved that this show was about optimism and young kids, for the most part, reinterpreting their classics for a new audience."[53] A minority of those approached refused to allow their music to be used, including Bryan Adams, Guns N' Roses and Coldplay; however, in June 2010, Coldplay reversed their decision, allowing Glee the rights to their catalog.[57] Adams posted on his Twitter account that the producers of Glee had never requested permission from him and urged them to "pick up the phone".[58] Composer and musician Billy Joel offered many of his songs for use on the show,[59] and other artists have offered use of their songs for free.[60] A series of Glee soundtrack albums have been released through Columbia Records. Songs featured on the show are available for digital download through iTunes up to two weeks before new episodes air, and through other digital outlets and mobile carriers a week later.[48] Glee music producers Adam Anders and Peer Astrom have begun to add original music to the show, including two original songs, "Loser like Me" and "Get It Right", on the March 15, 2011 episode.[61]

Glee is choreographed by Zach Woodlee and features four to eight production numbers per episode.[19] Once Murphy selects a song, rights are cleared with its publishers by music supervisor P. J. Bloom, and music producers Adam Anders and Peer Astrom rearrange it for the Glee cast.[48] Numbers are pre-recorded by the cast, while Woodlee constructs the accompanying dance moves, which are then taught to the cast and filmed.[41] Studio recordings of tracks are then made. The process begins six to eight weeks before each episode is filmed, and can end as late as the day before filming begins.[48] Each episode costs at least $3 million to produce,[41] and can take up to ten days to film as a result of the elaborate choreography.[47] In late 2010, Bloom reported the process has been even shorter; "as quick as a few weeks".[56] For the second season, the creators were offered listens of upcoming songs in advance by publishers and record labels, with production occurring even before song rights are cleared.[56]

Promotion

 
A promotional balloon for Glee in New York City.

Prior to the second episode's premiere, Glee's cast went on tour at several Hot Topic stores across the nation.[62] The cast sang the U.S. national anthem at the third game of the 2009 World Series.[63] Macy's invited them to perform at the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but host broadcaster NBC declined because Glee aired on a rival network.[64] Murphy commented on the cast's exclusion: "I completely understand NBC's position, and look forward to seeing a Jay Leno float."[65]

The show's success sent the cast on a concert tour, Glee Live! In Concert! after the first season's wrapup. They visited Phoenix, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.[66] The cast also recorded a cover of Wham!'s "Last Christmas", which was released as a single in late 2009 but didn't appear in the show until "A Very Glee Christmas" on December 10, 2010.[48] Morrison, Lynch, Michele, Monteith, and Colfer reprised their roles as Will, Sue, Rachel, Finn, and Kurt respectively for a cameo appearance in an episode of The Cleveland Show that aired January 16, 2011.[67] Michele, Monteith, and Riley appeared as campers in the twenty-second season premiere of The Simpsons.[68]

Lynch, Colfer, Monteith, and Riley appeared at the 2010 MTV VMAs on September 12, 2010.[69] When Agron, Michele, and Monteith posed for a set of risqué photos for the November 2010 edition of GQ magazine, Parents Television Council (PTC) criticized the show; PTC president Tim Winter commented that Glee has many young fans, and that "by authorizing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show's direction. And it isn't good for families."[70]

The promotional posters for the first season have the show's stars using their right hands to make an "L" to fill in the L of the word Glee. The second season's promotional posters have the stars throwing slushies at the camera in pairs. The third season's promotional posters have the stars getting dodgeballs thrown at them by Sue Sylvester. While the cast concert tour, Glee Live! In Concert!, began on May 15, 2010, and presented concerts in four cities in the US that month, the second edition, with an almost-entirely new set list, toured for four weeks in the US and Canada from May 21 through June 18, 2011, and followed with twelve days in England and Ireland, from June 22 through July 3, 2011.[71] The cast also performed on the seventh season of The X Factor on December 5, 2010.[72]

Possible Continuation

In 2020, celebrating the show's 11 year anniversary, Ryan Murphy made an Instagram post about his idea of re-doing the show's pilot with Lea Michele, Ben Platt, and Beanie Feldstein. Murphy eventually deleted the post.[73]

In 2021, Fox President Michael Thorn revealed he was interested in reviving past Fox programs, most notably 24 and Glee.[74]

In 2022, in an interview with Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz, Ryan Murphy revealed he was interested in re-examining the series as a brand through a reboot or a Broadway musical.[75]

Broadcast

The first season of Glee consists of twenty-two episodes.[76] The pilot episode was originally broadcast on May 19, 2009.[77] The series returned on September 9, 2009,[78] airing an additional twelve episodes on Wednesdays in the 9:00 pm timeslot until December 9, 2009, for a total of thirteen episodes.[79] On September 21, 2009, nine more episodes were ordered for the first season by Fox,[80] and the first of these episodes was broadcast on April 13, 2010. These episodes aired on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 pm.[81] On January 11, 2010, it was announced that Fox had commissioned a second season of the show. The second season began production in June 2010.[82][83] Season two began on September 21, 2010,[84] airing in the 8:00 pm time slot on Tuesdays, and consists of twenty-two episodes.[85] The show was chosen by Fox to fill the coveted timeslot that followed the network's coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011,[86] and the network originally planned to move the show to the 9:00 pm time slot on Wednesdays following the post–Super Bowl broadcast.[87] However, Fox later revised its schedule,[88] leaving Glee on Tuesdays in order to concentrate on building up its weaker Wednesday and Thursday line-ups.[89][90] A third season was ordered by Fox on May 23, 2010, before the end of the first season. The early renewal of the show allowed the production team to cut costs and to plan ahead when writing scripts.[91] The third season broadcasts remained in the show's Tuesday 8:00 pm time slot,[92] and began airing on September 20, 2011.[93][94] The show's fourth season changed both date and time of broadcast: it moved to Thursdays in the 9:00 pm time slot, and aired after that evening's 8:00 pm music competition "results" shows—The X Factor in the fall and American Idol in midseason.[95] The show was renewed for both a fifth and sixth season at the same time, on April 19, 2013.[96] Reruns were also syndicated to local US stations from 2013 to 2015.[97]

Glee has been syndicated for broadcast in many countries worldwide, including Australia, where cast members visited to promote the show prior to its September 2009 debut on Network Ten.[98] Midway through season four, Glee was moved to Network Ten's digital channel Eleven due to poor ratings.[99] It also airs in Canada on City and, previously, Global,[100] New Zealand,[101] Fiji,[102] and Trinidad and Tobago.[103][104][105] It is broadcast in South Africa, where Fox beams the episodes directly to the M-Net broadcast center in Johannesburg rather than delivering the tapes.[106] Asian countries that broadcast Glee include Bangladesh,[107] the Philippines,[108] India,[107] Malaysia,[109] and Singapore.[110][111]

All the episodes of the series were announced to be arriving on Disney+ in Latin America in February 2021.[112] In the United States, the series was made available on Disney+ and Hulu starting on June 1, 2022, following its December 2021 departure from Netflix after over seven years, as well as a year on Prime Video.[113][114]

UK trademark dispute

In the United Kingdom,[115] E4 broadcast the first two seasons of Glee, showing episodes months after they were first aired in the US. Sky 1 broadcast the series starting with the third season, airing episodes two days after their US broadcast.[116] However, the show has come under a trademark dispute in the UK with the Glee Club, a small chain of independent live stand-up comedy and live music venues. In February 2014, a High Court judge ruled that the show "diluted and tarnished" the reputation of the comedy club chain.[117] In a later ruling in July 2014, the High Court ordered Fox to use a different title for the show in the UK, saying there was a "likelihood of confusion" between the two brands. In February 2016, Fox lost an appeal against the decision.[118]

Merchandise

Three soundtrack albums were released to accompany Glee's first season: Glee: The Music, Volume 1, Glee: The Music, Volume 2 and Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers.[119][120][121] Two extended plays (EP) accompanied the episodes "The Power of Madonna" and "Journey to Regionals": Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna and Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals respectively.[122][123] Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One, a compilation album featuring all 100 studio recordings from the first season, was released exclusively to the iTunes Store.[124] Five soundtrack albums were released to accompany Glee's second season: Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album, featuring Christmas-themed songs, and Glee: The Music, Volume 4, were both released in November 2010;[125][126][127] Glee: The Music, Volume 5,[128] Glee: The Music Presents the Warblers,[129] and Glee: The Music, Volume 6[130] were 2011 releases, in March, April, and May, respectively. An EP entitled Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show was released to accompany the Halloween episode, "The Rocky Horror Glee Show".[131] Two EPs were released exclusively at the Target discount chain: Glee: The Music, Love Songs in the last week of 2010, and Glee: The Music, Dance Party in early September 2011.[132][133]

Glee has been released on several DVD and Blu-ray box-sets. Glee – Pilot Episode: Director's Cut features the pilot episode and a preview of the second episode, "Showmance".[134] Glee – Volume 1: Road to Sectionals contains the first thirteen episodes of season one,[135] and Glee – Volume 2: Road to Regionals contains the final nine episodes of the first season.[136] Glee – The Complete First Season was released on September 13, 2010.[137] Three boxed sets were released for the second season: Glee Season 2: Volume 1 containing the first ten episodes on January 25, 2011,[138] and both Glee Season 2: Volume 2 with the final twelve episode and Glee: The Complete Second Season with all twenty-two on September 13, 2011.[139] All three were released on DVD; only the complete season is available on Blu-ray.

Little, Brown Books has published three Glee-related young adult novels, all of which were developed in collaboration with the show's producers and writers.[140] All three have been written by Sophia Lowell; the first, Glee: The Beginning, was released in August 2010 and serves as a prequel to the events of the television series.[141] Subsequent novels include Glee: Foreign Exchange, released in February 2011,[142] and Glee: Summer Break, released in July 2011.[143]

Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have plans for a line of Glee-related merchandise including games, electrical products, greeting cards, apparel and stationery.[144] Macy's carry a line of Glee-related clothing, and Claire's stock accessories.[145]

Halfbrick Studios published a Glee content version of the mobile game Band Stars[146] by Six Foot Kid [147] in collaboration with Fox Digital Entertainment[148] on March 27, 2014, currently available on iOS platforms, but with plans to release to Android. The game is available for free download with some Glee content available immediately including Kurt Hummel and Will Schuester. 12 characters from the Glee TV show are available for purchase and download in two separate packs. Pack 1 contains: Rachel Berry, Mercedes Jones, Noah (Puck) Puckerman, Jake Puckerman and Quinn Fabray. Pack 2 contains: Artie Abrams, Tina Cohen-Chang, Blaine Anderson, Santana Lopez, Brittany Pierce and Unique Adams.

Reception

Season Nielsen ratings Critical response
Premiere total viewers
(in millions)
Finale total viewers
(in millions)
Season average total viewers,
inc. DVR (in millions)
Rank 18–49 rating/share (rank) Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
1 (2009–10) 9.62[149] 10.92[150] 9.77 33 4.3/11 (15)[151] 88% (49 reviews)[152] 78 (19 reviews)[153]
2 (2010–11) 12.45[154] 11.80[155] 10.11 43 6.0 (43)[156] 79% (29 reviews)[157] 76 (11 reviews)[158]
3 (2011–12) 9.21[159] 7.46[160] 8.71 56 3.6/10 (25)[161] 53% (19 reviews)[162] N/A
4 (2012–13) 7.41[163] 5.92[164] 8.26 50 3.3 (25)[165] 65% (23 reviews)[166] 73 (6 reviews)[167]
5 (2013–14) 5.06[168] 1.87[169] 4.57 105 2.2 (77)[170] 71% (14 reviews)[171] N/A
6 (2014–15) 2.34[172] 2.54[173] 3.14 148 1.2 (120)[174] 72% (18 reviews)[175] N/A

Ratings

The pilot episode of Glee averaged 9.62 million viewers,[149] and the following eleven episodes attained between 6.10 and 7.65 million.[176][177] The mid-season finale was watched by 8.13 million viewers,[178] with the show returning in April 2010 to a season high of 13.66 million viewers.[179] The following six episodes attained between 11.49 and 12.98 million viewers,[180][181] falling to 8.99 million for the penultimate episode "Funk".[182] Viewing figures rose to 11.07 million viewers for the season finale,[150] giving Glee the highest finale rating for a new show in the 2009–10 television season.[183] Only the first twenty episodes of the first season were accounted for when calculating the season average due to the final two episodes airing outside the traditional sweeps period.[184] On February 6, 2011, after the Super Bowl, Glee received its highest ever ratings, with over 26.8 million tuning in to see the special episode, with a peak of 39.5 million.[185]

In 2011, Glee generated $2 million advertising revenue per half-hour.[186] In 2012, the show was the fourth-highest revenue earning show of the year, with US$2.83 million ad revenue per half-hour, behind Two and a Half Men, The X Factor and American Idol.[187]

Critical reception

Rotten Tomatoes ratings per season
Season 1 2 3 4 5 6
Rating 88[152] 79[157] 53[162] 65[166] 71[171] 72[175]

Glee received a Metacritic score of 78 out of 100 in its first season, based on reviews by eighteen critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[188] It was praised by several critics in year-end "best of" reviews in 2009. James Poniewozik of Time ranked it the eighth best television show of the year, commenting: "when Glee works—which is often—it is transcendent, tear-jerking and thrilling like nothing else on TV."[189] Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker ranked it ninth, calling it "Hands down the year's most novel show [and] also its least likely success",[190] Lisa Respers France of CNN wrote that while ordinarily Glee's premise would have been "a recipe for disaster", the show has "such quirky charm and bravado that it is impossible not to get swept up".[191] Reviews for subsequent seasons on Metacritic, reflecting their initial episodes, were not quite as good—the second season's score was 76 out of 100 from eleven reviews,[192] and the fourth season received a score of 73 out of 100 from six reviews.[193] Even with these stellar reviews from a multitude of critics, Glee's later seasons lost millions of viewers.

 
Variety's Brian Lowry said that Jayma Mays as Emma offered "modest redemption" to an adult cast of "over-the-top buffoons".

Nancy Gibbs of Time magazine wrote that she had heard the series described as "anti-Christian" by a youth minister, and commented:

It is easy to see his point, if you look at the specifics. ... The students lie, they cheat, they steal, they lust, they lace the bake-sale cupcakes with pot in order to give the student body a severe case of the munchies. Nearly all the Ten Commandments get violated at one point or another, while the audience is invited to laugh at people's pain and folly and humiliation. ... It insults kids to suggest that simply watching Characters Behaving Badly onscreen means they'll take that as permission to do the same themselves. ... And it's set in high school, meaning it's about a journey not just to college and career but to identity and conviction, the price of popularity, the compromises we must make between what we want and what we need.[194]

Variety's Brian Lowry was critical of the show's early episodes, highlighting acting and characterization issues and deeming the adult cast "over-the-top buffoons", with the exception of Mays' Emma, who he felt offered "modest redemption".[195] Though he praised Colfer and Michele's performances, Lowry wrote that the show's talent was squandered by its "jokey, cartoonish, wildly uneven tone", deeming the series a "one-hit wonder".[196] Following the show's mid-season finale, Lowry wrote that while Glee "remains a frustrating mess at times", its "vibrant musical numbers and talented cast have consistently kept it on [his] TiVo must list" conceding that "even with its flaws, TV would be poorer without Glee."[197]

As Glee's initial success pulled in a large audience, John Doyle of The Globe and Mail wrote that the early shows "felt fresh, mainly because the motley crew of kids had a kind of square naïveté." Doyle notes that the early success took Glee away from its original characters and plot, focusing more on celebrity guests. "The gaiety is gone from Glee. You should have set it in its prime, mere months ago".[198] Matthew Gilbert of Boston Globe similarly wrote that "It has become a powerful, promotional machine, long on hype and short on the human feeling—the glee—that once made it so addictive".[199]

Music

The show's 754 musical performances, with each performance delivering an individual song or a mashup of two or more songs in a single performance, have led to commercial success, with over thirty-six million copies of Glee cast single releases purchased digitally, and over eleven million albums purchased worldwide through October 2011.[200] In 2009, the Glee cast had twenty-five singles chart on the Billboard Hot 100, the most by any artist since The Beatles had thirty-one songs in the chart in 1964;[201] in 2010, it placed eighty singles on the Billboard Hot 100, far outstripping the previous record.[202] In February 2011, Glee surpassed Elvis Presley as the act with the most songs placed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, though fewer than one-fourth of them have charted for more than one week.[203] The cast performance of "Don't Stop Believin'" was certified gold on October 13, 2009, achieving over 500,000 digital sales,[204] and on March 16, 2011, received platinum certification for having sales of over a million.[205] The series' cover version had a positive effect on sales of Rihanna's "Take a Bow", which increased by 189 percent after the song was covered in the Glee episode "Showmance".[204]

However, there has also been critical condemnation of the cast performances. Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone commented that Matthew Morrison "couldn't rap his way out of a 98° rehearsal", and AllMusic's Andrew Leahey wrote that Cory Monteith and Dianna Agron "can't sing nearly as well as their co-stars".[206] E! Online's Joal Ryan criticized the show for its "overproduced soundtrack" and complained that many songs rely too heavily on the pitch-correcting software Auto-Tune: "For every too-brief moment of Lea Michele sounding raw—and lovely—on a "What a Girl Wants", or Monteith singing a perfectly credible REO Speedwagon in the shower, there's Michele and Monteith sounding like 1990s-era Cher on "No Air", or Monteith sounding like the Monteith XRZ-200 on the out-of-the-shower version of "Can't Fight This Feeling".[207]

During the second season, Rob Sheffield for Rolling Stone noted the Britney Spears and Rocky Horror tribute episodes as examples when he lauded Glee and its choice of music. He praised Murphy for his selection and resurrection of "forgotten" pop songs and compared the show's uniqueness to "MTV in its prime" as the embodiment of popular culture.[208]

Some artists, including Slash, Kings of Leon and Foo Fighters, have declined to have their songs used on the show. Murphy has been publicly critical of these refusals, which has led to exchanges in the press between him and a number of artists.[209] A slated cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" in the season four episode "Sadie Hawkins" has been criticized for blatantly copying a rendition of the song by Jonathan Coulton without his permission, without giving creative credit.[210][211] Side-by-Side comparison shows the waveforms appear remarkably similar. Other artists have come forward with allegations of plagiarism in light of this development.[212] It was reported that musician Prince had not given permission for Glee to cover his hit "Kiss" before filming the performance of the cover.[213] Gorillaz founder Damon Albarn said on CBC Radio One that he would not let the show cover any Gorillaz songs: "Firstly, write your own songs. Two, have your own identity and stop being the ... slaves of TV producers ... who don't give a shit about you".[214]

Fandom

Fans of Glee are commonly referred to as "gleeks",[215] a portmanteau of "glee" and "geek". Fox ran a "Biggest GLEEK" competition, measuring fans' Glee-related activity on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace, and found that the growth of the fanbase outpaced the network's science-fiction shows.[216] The cast's Hot Topic tour was titled "The Gleek Tour".[62] Glee is one of the most tweeted-about TV shows.[217] In 2011, it was the top trending US TV show.[218] On IMDb, Glee is the seventh highest ranking TV series of the period 2002–2012.[219] Fans have recreated many of its musical numbers in tribute to the show, sharing them on YouTube. Based on this trend, show producers included instrumental versions of some songs on the show's soundtracks.[217]

Similarly, Glee fans have created portmanteaus of character couples, such as "Finchel" for Finn and Rachel, "Samcedes" for Sam and Mercedes, "Klaine" for Kurt and Blaine, and "Brittana" for Brittany and Santana. This fact has been referenced in various second-season episodes, notably "Furt", which is itself a coinage for the new stepbrothers Finn and Kurt, and "Rumours".[220][221]

Awards and accolades

 
Jane Lynch, Ian Brennan and Jessalyn Gilsig at the 69th Annual Peabody Awards for Glee

Glee has received a number of awards and nominations. In 2009, the series won five Satellite Awards: "Best Musical or Comedy TV Series", "Best Actor" and "Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series" for Morrison and Michele, "Best Supporting Actress" for Lynch and "Special Achievement for Outstanding Guest Star" for Kristin Chenoweth.[222] In 2010, the show won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy". Morrison, Michele and Lynch also received acting nominations.[223] The series was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards, with screenplays nominated in the "Comedy Series" and "New Series" categories.[224] It also won a Peabody Award in 2009.[225][226] The Glee cast won the "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series" award at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards.[227] Paris Barclay and Ryan Murphy both received nominations for "Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series" at the Directors Guild of America Awards for their work on Glee.[228] In July 2010, Glee received nineteen Emmy Award nominations, including "Outstanding Comedy Series", "Outstanding Lead Actor – Comedy Series" for Morrison and "Outstanding Lead Actress – Comedy Series" for Michele; it won four of these, including "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series" for Lynch and "Outstanding Guest Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series" for Neil Patrick Harris.[229] Paris Barclay was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Directing in a Comedy Series in 2010 for his episode "Wheels".[230]

On January 16, 2011, the show won a Golden Globe for "Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy" and both Lynch and Colfer won Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series, Miniseries, or TV Film.[231] In July 2011, Glee received twelve Emmy nominations and won two: Gwyneth Paltrow was named Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Holly Holliday, and the show won the Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series category.[229] It received three Emmy nominations in July 2012, and four in July 2013.[229] The whole cast was invited to sing at the White House by Michelle Obama in April 2010 for the annual Easter Egg Roll.[232]

Film

Glee: The Concert Movie, a concert film based on the four-week North American segment of the 2011 Glee Live! In Concert! tour and featuring the cast of the series in performance and backstage, was released in the United States and the United Kingdom on August 12, 2011, for a two-week limited engagement. The film is directed by Kevin Tancharoen.[18]

Related media

In January 2010, it was announced that open auditions would be held for three new roles to be introduced in Glee's second season. They were open to amateurs and professionals aged sixteen to twenty-six, and were intended to be the subject of a multi-part television special, set to air in the lead-in to the second-season premiere in fall 2010, with the new cast members revealed in the first episode.[82] Murphy commented: "Anybody and everybody now has a chance to be on a show about talented underdogs. We want to be the first interactive musical comedy on television."[233] On June 22, 2010, Josef Adalian of New York magazine revealed that the reality show would not go ahead, due to Murphy's desire to concentrate on the main series, and fear that the distraction of the reality show may damage Glee. Adalian reported that the production team would still choose several winners from the entrants and invite them to appear on Glee for at least one episode.[234] In June 2010, it was announced that Oxygen would host a reality series set to air in June 2011, featuring performers competing for a spot on Glee.[235][236] The Glee Project started airing on June 12, 2011, and the final episode was broadcast on August 21, 2011.[237] The winning prize was a seven-episode guest-starring role in Glee's third season, which was awarded to two contestants, Damian McGinty and Samuel Larsen, with a two-episode role given to the two runner ups, Alex Newell and Lindsay Pearce.[238] The Glee Project was renewed for a second season that ran from June 5 to August 14, 2012, with Blake Jenner as the winner. The show was not renewed for a third season.

On June 7, 2010, UK broadcaster Channel 4 aired Gleeful: The Real Show Choirs of America on its E4 station. The documentary explored the American show choir phenomenon which inspired Glee.[239] Narrated by Nick Grimshaw,[240] it went behind the scenes with real-life glee clubs and detailed celebrity show choir alumni including Lance Bass, Ashton Kutcher, Blake Lively and Anne Hathaway.[241] It was selected as recommended viewing by The Guardian, with the comment: "it's a fascinating look at the real-life New Directions, and it's equally as crackers as its TV champion."[242] The newspaper's Lucy Mangan reviewed the documentary positively, writing: "It will, one way or another, fill your heart to bursting", and commenting that: "Glee, it turns out, is not a gloriously ridiculous, highly polished piece of escapism. It is cinéma vérité."[243] It was watched by 411,000 viewers, a 2.3% audience share.[244]

In summer 2010, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom aired Don't Stop Believing, a reality talent show inspired by Glee's success. The series featured live shows in which established and new musical performance groups competed against each other, performing well-known songs in new arrangements, with viewers voting on the winner.[245] Solo singers were also sought to join a group to represent the United Kingdom on the American glee club circuit.[246][247] Five's controller Richard Woolfe stated: "There's an explosion in musical performance groups and Don't Stop Believing will tap into that exciting groundswell."[248] The show was hosted by Emma Bunton,[249] who told The Belfast Telegraph that she is a "huge fan" of Glee.[250] The show's judges were former EastEnders actress Tamsin Outhwaite, Blue member Duncan James, singer Anastacia and High School Musical choreographer Charles "Chucky" Klapow.[251]

A three-episode documentary miniseries about the deaths of three Glee main cast members – and claiming to investigate the effect of the sudden fame they experienced due to the show on their personal lives – called The Price of Glee, was produced in 2022, with people related to the series finding it in poor taste.[252][253]

Discography

See also

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Glee stylized as glee is an American musical comedy drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19 2009 to March 20 2015 It centers on the glee club called the New Directions at the fictional William McKinley High School which competes as a show choir while its disparate members deal with social issues especially regarding sexuality race family teen relationships and teamwork GleeGenreMusical Comedy drama Romantic comedy Teen dramaCreated byRyan Murphy Brad Falchuk Ian BrennanStarringDianna Agron Chris Colfer Jessalyn Gilsig Jane Lynch Jayma Mays Kevin McHale Lea Michele Cory Monteith Matthew Morrison Amber Riley Mark Salling Jenna Ushkowitz Heather Morris Mike O Malley Naya Rivera Darren Criss Harry Shum Jr Chord Overstreet Jacob Artist Melissa Benoist Blake Jenner Alex Newell Becca Tobin Dot Marie JonesEnding theme Time for Girl Talk ComposerJames S LevineCountry of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons6No of episodes121 list of episodes ProductionExecutive producersRyan Murphy Brad Falchuk Dante Di Loreto Ian Brennan Russel Friend Garrett Lerner Bradley BueckerProducersAlexis Martin Woodall Michael Novick Kenneth Silverstein Robert Del Valle Roberto Aguirre SacasaProduction locationsHollywood CaliforniaCinematographyChristopher Baffa Michael Goi Joaquin SedilloCamera setupSingle cameraRunning time40 48 minutes58 minutes season 2 episode 18 Production companiesBrad Falchuk Teley Vision Ryan Murphy Productions 20th Century Fox TelevisionDistributor20th TelevisionReleaseOriginal networkFoxPicture formatHDTV 720pAudio formatDolby Surround Dolby Digital 5 1 1 Original releaseMay 19 2009 2009 05 19 March 20 2015 2015 03 20 ChronologyRelatedThe Glee ProjectThe initial twelve member cast included Matthew Morrison as club director and Spanish teacher Will Schuester Jane Lynch as scheming cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester Jayma Mays as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury Jessalyn Gilsig as Will s wife Terri and the eight original club members including Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray a popular cheerleader whose biggest struggle is her teenage pregnancy Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel a gay boy who feels conflicted by his sexuality and is bullied at school Kevin McHale as Artie Abrams who lives with a physical disability Lea Michele as Rachel Berry driven by her dreams of becoming a Broadway theatre star and the glee club s most obvious star singer Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson the school s star quarterback who sometimes appears not to be very smart Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones an African American girl who endeavors to be recognized for her talents and dreams of being a vocal diva Mark Salling as Noah Puckerman a teenage delinquent in need of direction and Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina Cohen Chang a shy girl of Korean descent who longs to be popular and sometimes experiences racism The main cast was altered throughout the series including the addition of Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez an unapologetically Latina cheerleader experiencing deep conflict over her sexuality Harry Shum Jr as Mike Chang a dancer with Chinese roots whose parents do not support his dreams and Heather Morris as Brittany Pierce a ditzy cheerleader who is secretly a math prodigy and comes to realize she is bisexual The series was created by Ryan Murphy Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan the latter of whom first conceived of Glee as a film The three wrote all of the show s episodes for the first two seasons and Murphy and Falchuk initially served as the show s main directors The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19 2009 and the first season aired from September 9 2009 to June 8 2010 Subsequent seasons aired in September through May The sixth and final season aired from January to March 2015 2 Glee features on screen performance based musical numbers that were selected by Murphy who aimed to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits and produced by Adam Anders and Peer Astrom Songs covered in the show were released through the iTunes Store during the week of broadcast and a series of Glee albums have been released by Columbia Records The music of Glee has been a commercial success with over 36 million digital single sales and eleven million album sales worldwide through October 2011 The series merchandise also includes DVD and Blu ray releases an iPad application and karaoke games for the Wii home videogame console There were live concert tours by the show s cast after the first and second seasons completed shooting a concert film based on the 2011 tour Glee The 3D Concert Movie was produced by Murphy and Fox and directed by Kevin Tancharoen During its first season Glee received generally favorable reviews from critics with Metacritic s weighted average of 77 out of 100 based on 18 critical reviews Glee has won many accolades The season was nominated for 19 Emmy Awards four Golden Globe Awards six Satellite Awards and 57 other awards with wins including the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series Musical or Comedy and Emmy awards for Jane Lynch guest star Neil Patrick Harris and Murphy s direction of the pilot episode In 2011 the show once again won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series and Jane Lynch and Chris Colfer won Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively and Gwyneth Paltrow won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series The show was also chosen by Fox to fill the coveted time slot that followed the network s coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011 In 2013 in the wake of the death of Cory Monteith and after his tribute episode The Quarterback aired Murphy announced that the sixth season would be the series last 3 After 121 episodes and over 729 music performances the series concluded on March 20 2015 4 Contents 1 Series overview 2 Cast and characters 3 Production 3 1 Conception 3 2 Writing 3 3 Music and choreography 3 4 Promotion 3 5 Possible Continuation 4 Broadcast 4 1 UK trademark dispute 5 Merchandise 6 Reception 6 1 Ratings 6 2 Critical reception 6 3 Music 6 4 Fandom 6 5 Awards and accolades 7 Film 8 Related media 9 Discography 9 1 Albums 9 2 Singles 9 3 Songs 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksSeries overview EditMain article List of Glee episodes SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedAverage total viewers including DVR millions RankFirst airedLast aired122May 19 2009 2009 05 19 June 8 2010 2010 06 08 9 7733 5 222September 21 2010 2010 09 21 May 24 2011 2011 05 24 10 1143 6 322September 20 2011 2011 09 20 May 22 2012 2012 05 22 8 7156 7 422September 13 2012 2012 09 13 May 9 2013 2013 05 09 8 2650 8 520September 26 2013 2013 09 26 May 13 2014 2014 05 13 4 57105 9 613January 9 2015 2015 01 09 March 20 2015 2015 03 20 3 14148 10 The series centers on a high school show choir also known as a glee club in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima Ohio 11 Will Schuester Matthew Morrison takes over the glee club after the former teacher Sandy Ryerson Stephen Tobolowsky is fired for inappropriate contact with a student With a rag tag group of misfit teenagers Will attempts to restore the glee club to its former glory while tending to his developing feelings for his co worker guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury Jayma Mays as well as defending the glee club s existence from the conniving cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester Jane Lynch A major focus of the series is the students in the glee club their relationships as couples their love of singing and desire for popularity coming into conflict due to their membership in the low status club and the many vicissitudes of life in high school and as a teenager The first season features the fictional high school show choir New Directions competing for the first time on the show choir circuit winning at the Sectionals competition episode 13 but losing at Regionals season finale episode 22 while its members and faculty deal with sex relationships homosexuality teenage pregnancy disabilities acceptance and other social issues The central characters are glee club director Will Schuester Matthew Morrison cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester Jane Lynch Will s wife Terri Jessalyn Gilsig guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury Jayma Mays and glee club members Rachel Lea Michele Finn Cory Monteith Artie Kevin McHale Kurt Chris Colfer Mercedes Amber Riley Tina Jenna Ushkowitz Puck Mark Salling and Quinn Dianna Agron The second season follows the club through wins at the Sectionals episode 9 and Regionals episode 16 competitions before losing at the Nationals competition in New York City season finale episode 22 while its members and faculty deal with relationships religion homophobia bullying rumors teenage drinking death and other social issues The season s stories revolve around the same Glee club members as first season with Santana Lopez Naya Rivera and Brittany S Pierce Heather Morris added to the main cast along with Kurt s father Burt Mike O Malley The third season follows the club through wins at Sectionals episode 8 and Regionals competitions episode 14 before they win the Nationals competition episode 21 in Chicago The characters deal with gender identity adoption domestic abuse teenage suicide bullying disabilities texting while driving college and other social issues Glee club members added to the main cast were Mike Chang Harry Shum Jr and transfer student Blaine Anderson Darren Criss while Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester was written out of the series and Mike O Malley as Burt returned to recurring status The McKinley High class of 2012 graduates at the end of the season The fourth season continues in Lima with a new generation of students but also follows some of the McKinley graduates from the third season notably to the fictional New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts NYADA in New York City The season follows the club through a loss at the Sectionals competition episode 9 and subsequent reinstatement when the winning Dalton Academy Warblers were found to have used banned substances human growth hormone episode 12 before winning at the Regionals competition episode 22 which meant they would be attending their third consecutive National show choir competition In the meantime Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel navigate NYADA and their lives as aspiring performers plus their relationships with Finn and Blaine Issues during the season include sex bulimia gender identity child molestation dyslexia school violence and pregnancy scares Former main cast members Emma Pillsbury Jayma Mays and Quinn Fabray Dianna Agron were credited as guest stars while previously recurring glee club member Sam Evans Chord Overstreet was promoted to the main cast The fifth season unlike previous seasons continues the school year begun in the previous season The season shows the reigning champion glee club finishing second at Nationals competition episode 11 before the club is permanently disbanded by Sue Sylvester now school principal for budgetary reasons episode 12 leaving the focus on graduation The show then jumps several months forward in time and deals entirely with the alumni s lives in New York City for the remainder of the season including Rachel s successful Broadway debut Throughout this season the club and its alumni deal with relationships death and mourning body image gay bashing intimacy and other social issues Several main cast members dropped to recurring guest stars as of this season Amber Riley as Mercedes Mark Salling as Puck Harry Shum Jr as Mike and Heather Morris as Brittany New main cast members included glee club members introduced in the fourth season Melissa Benoist as Marley Rose Alex Newell as Unique Adams Blake Jenner as Ryder Lynn Jacob Artist as Jake Puckerman and Becca Tobin as Kitty Wilde Actor Cory Monteith died during summer before the fifth season was shot his character Finn Hudson died off screen in the season s third episode The Quarterback The sixth and final season focuses on Rachel Berry who returns to McKinley after her television pilot fails She decides to reconstitute the glee club with all new McKinley students and with Kurt s help Will Schuester is now coaching rival club Vocal Adrenaline while Blaine is coaching the Dalton Academy Warblers All of the new main cast members from the fifth season have returned to guest star status in this final season when they appear as well as Naya Rivera as Santana and Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina Amber Riley as Mercedes rejoins the main cast and Dot Marie Jones as Coach Beiste joins the main cast for the first time The cast members deal with gay marriage gender identity transitioning and other social issues The newly reconstituted club wins the Nationals competition Sue is fired as principal and Will is hired to be the principal of a McKinley High repurposed as a magnet arts school with Sam as the new director of New Directions The finale jumps five years into the future Rachel has married Jesse St James Jonathan Groff wins a Tony Award and is a surrogate mother for Kurt and Blaine who are themselves Broadway stars Artie has directed Tina in a film Mercedes is a highly successful recording artist and Sue has just been re elected Vice President of the United States The McKinley auditorium is renamed after Finn Cast and characters EditMain article List of Glee characters In casting Glee Murphy sought out actors who could identify with the rush of starring in theatrical roles Instead of using traditional network casting calls he spent three months on Broadway where he found Matthew Morrison who had previously starred on stage in Hairspray and The Light in the Piazza Lea Michele who starred in Spring Awakening and Jenna Ushkowitz who had been in the Broadway revival of The King and I 12 Matthew Morrison was cast after Murphy spent three months observing actors on Broadway Actors without any theatrical experience needed to demonstrate during their auditions that they could also sing and dance Chris Colfer had no previous professional experience but Murphy wrote in the character Kurt Hummel for him 12 Jayma Mays auditioned with the song Touch a Touch a Touch a Touch Me from The Rocky Horror Show while Cory Monteith initially submitted a tape of himself acting only and was requested to submit a second musical tape in which he sang a cheesy 80s music video style version of REO Speedwagon s Can t Fight This Feeling 12 Kevin McHale came from a boy band background having previously been part of the group Not Like Them He explained that the diversity of the cast s backgrounds reflects the range of different musical styles within the show itself It s a mix of everything classic rock current stuff R amp B Even the musical theatre stuff is switched up You won t always recognize it 12 Jane Lynch was originally supposed to have a recurring role as Sue Sylvester 13 but was made a series regular when a Damon Wayans pilot she was working on for ABC fell through 14 The cast is contracted for a potential three Glee films 15 with their contract stating that The actor hereby grants Fox three exclusive irrevocable options to engage the actor in up to respectively three feature length motion pictures 16 Murphy said in December 2010 that he wasn t interested in doing a Glee movie as a story and added I might do it as a live concert thing 17 Glee The 3D Concert Movie filmed during the 2011 Glee Live In Concert tour was released on August 12 2011 18 Cory Monteith portrayed glee club member Finn Hudson Glee has featured as many as fifteen main roles with star billing after starting with twelve Morrison plays Will Schuester McKinley High s Spanish teacher who becomes glee club director and hopes to restore it to its former glory 19 Lynch plays Sue Sylvester head coach of the Cheerios cheerleading squad and the Glee Club s nemesis 14 Mays appears as Emma Pillsbury the school s mysophobic guidance counselor who has feelings for Will 20 and Jessalyn Gilsig plays Terri Schuester Will s wife whom he eventually divorces after five years of marriage and the discovery that she has faked being pregnant instead of revealing she had suffered a false pregnancy 21 Michele plays Rachel Berry talented star of the glee club whose ambition sometimes causes her to be insensitive toward others Often bullied by the Cheerios and football players she grows closer to them as the show progresses and begins an on and off relationship with Finn Hudson starting in season one they become engaged in season three 21 Monteith played Finn star quarterback of the school s football team who risks alienation by his friends after joining the glee club 21 Also in the club are Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones a fashion conscious diva who resents having to sing back up but eventually finds her place in the choir Colfer as Kurt Hummel a fashionable gay man countertenor who is often bullied by the jocks in the school 22 McHale as Artie Abrams a guitar player and paraplegic who longs to be seen for his personality rather than only his physical injuries and Ushkowitz as Tina Cohen Chang a painfully shy Asian American student who fakes a speech impediment as a defense mechanism Dianna Agron plays Quinn Fabray Finn s cheerleader girlfriend who later joins the glee club to keep an eye on him Mark Salling plays Noah Puck Puckerman a good friend of Finn s on the football team who at first disapproves of Finn joining the glee club but later joins it himself Naya Rivera and Heather Morris portray Cheerios and glee club vocalists Santana Lopez and Brittany Pierce respectively and were originally recurring actors but were promoted to series regulars in the second season 23 Mike O Malley who plays Kurt s father Burt Hummel also became a series regular on season two 24 Gilsig and O Malley no longer appeared on the list of starring actors at the beginning of the third season though O Malley was a recurring guest star in at least six episodes during the season 25 Two actors were promoted to series regulars as of the third season Harry Shum Jr as football player and glee club member Mike Chang and Darren Criss as former Dalton Academy Warbler and new club member Blaine Anderson both of whom started as recurring actors Shum in the first season and Criss in the second 26 For the fourth season Chord Overstreet who started as a recurring actor in the second season playing glee club member Sam Evans was promoted to the main cast 27 while Agron and Mays were credited as recurring guest stars Many of the original characters graduated from McKinley High at the end of the third season Murphy said We didn t want to have a show where they were in high school for eight years We really wanted to be true to that experience 28 Adult characters played by Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch would remain to provide continuity to the series 29 though according to Falchuk some students Rachel Finn and Kurt in particular would likely remain on the show after they graduate 30 In May 2012 Murphy said that just because a character on the show graduates high school does not mean that they are leaving A lot of people have been writing Dianna s off the show Amber s off the show they re not off the show I think Amber was talking about that bittersweet feeling of I ll never be in the choir room with that exact group of people At least that s what she told me When I read that tweet I said I think people will misconstrue that She s excited about where her character is going They all are I wanted to do the right thing by all of them He then continued They re all coming back Anyone who is a regular is coming back Everyone said yes 31 On June 28 2013 the media reported that Morris Riley Salling and Shum would be changing from starring status to guest starring roles for the fifth season and on the following day that Jacob Artist Melissa Benoist Blake Jenner Alex Newell and Becca Tobin who play Jake Puckerman Marley Rose Ryder Lynn Wade Unique Adams and Kitty Wilde respectively were all being promoted to the show s main cast 32 On July 13 2013 Cory Monteith was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver British Columbia after failing to check out Staff were sent to his room where it was then that his body was discovered An autopsy completed on July 15 indicated that he died of alcohol and heroin overdose 33 34 On July 20 2013 Ryan Murphy said in various media outlets that Cory would have a tribute in season five s third episode which would deal with the death of Monteith s character Finn 35 On July 30 2013 Mays confirmed that she would depart the show after the fifth season to work on other projects but stated that she would be open to returning as a guest star in the future 36 On July 7 2014 it was confirmed that Rivera and Ushkowitz would be placed on a recurring status for the sixth and final season 37 On August 28 a website revealed that Amber Riley would once again become a regular along with Dot Marie Jones while Jayma Mays would be on a recurring status 38 Production EditConception Edit Ian Brennan conceived Glee based on his own experience as a member of the Prospect High School show choir in Mount Prospect Illinois 39 He initially envisioned Glee as a film rather than a television series and wrote the first draft in August 2005 with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies 39 He completed the script in 2005 but could not generate interest in the project for several years 40 Mike Novick a television producer and a friend of Brennan s from Los Angeles was a member of the same gym as Ryan Murphy and gave him a copy of Brennan s script 41 Murphy had been in a show choir in college and felt he could relate to the script Murphy and his Nip Tuck colleague Brad Falchuk suggested that Glee be produced as a television show The script was entirely rewritten 40 and was picked up by Fox within fifteen hours of being received Murphy attributed that in part to the network s success with American Idol It made sense for the network with the biggest hit in TV which is a musical to do something in that vein he said 42 Murphy and Falchuk became the show s executive producers and showrunners Brennan became a co executive producer and Novick a producer 42 Brennan Falchuk and Murphy started by writing all the episodes 43 Glee is set at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima Ohio 44 Murphy chose a Midwest setting as he himself grew up in Indiana and recalled childhood visits to Ohio to the Kings Island theme park 45 Although set in Lima the show is filmed at Paramount Studios and Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood 46 Murphy has said that he has never seen a High School Musical film to which Glee has been compared and that his interest lay in creating a postmodern musical rather than doing a show where people burst into song drawing more heavily on the format of Chicago 47 Murphy intended the show to be a form of escapism There s so much on the air right now about people with guns or sci fi or lawyers running around This is a different genre there s nothing like it on the air at the networks and cable Everything s so dark in the world right now that s why Idol worked It s pure escapism he said 42 Murphy intended to make a family show to appeal to adults as well as children with adult characters starring equally alongside the teenage leads 42 and as of October 2009 he had already mapped out plans for the series covering three years of broadcast 48 Writing Edit The three creators Murphy Falchuk and Brennan plan the stories together For the first two seasons they were the only writers and after taking joint credit for the pilot episode and the episode that opened the fall 2009 season they began rotating taking a single auctorial credit based in large part on the person who s taken the lead in story breaking or who wrote a draft Brennan noted that the writing process is fast and loose with the emphasis on fast and quotes Murphy as having said in terms of their roles in episode creation I m sort of the brain Brad s sort of the heart Ian s sort of the funny bone which Brennan says is true in a lot of ways Some of the characters are written more by one writer than by the others Brennan writes most of Sue s material and Falchuk frequently writes the scenes between Kurt and Burt Hummel though Murphy contributes a great deal to Kurt 49 Starting with season three a writing staff of six was hired Ali Adler Roberto Aguirre Sacasa Marti Noxon Michael Hitchcock Matt Hodgson and Ross Maxwell 50 The season s fourth episode Pot o Gold was written by Adler the first not credited to the show s three creators 51 52 Adler and Noxon did not return for the show s fourth season and instead House writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner and Stacy Traub were hired Music and choreography Edit Main articles Lists of songs in Glee Glee albums discography and Glee songs discography The series features numerous song covers sung onscreen by the characters 53 Ryan Murphy was responsible for selecting all of the songs used and has said that he strove to maintain a balance between chart hits and show tunes I want there to be something for everybody in every episode That s a tricky mix but that s very important the balancing of that 41 According to Murphy the song choices are integral to script development Each episode has a theme at its core After I write the script I will choose songs that help to move the story along 54 In a 2010 interview with Allison Kugel Chris Colfer noted that there have been a couple of times when I have gone to Ryan Murphy Glee creator and told him a couple of things that have happened to me and then he writes it into the show Or he ll ask me what song I would want to sing in this situation or in that situation I don t think any of us directly try to give input on the character or on the storyline but they definitely steal things from us 55 For the second season a shift toward using more Top 40 songs was seen in an effort to appeal more to the 18 49 demographic 56 Murphy was surprised at the ease with which use of songs was approved by the record labels approached and explained I think the key to it is they loved the tone of it They loved that this show was about optimism and young kids for the most part reinterpreting their classics for a new audience 53 A minority of those approached refused to allow their music to be used including Bryan Adams Guns N Roses and Coldplay however in June 2010 Coldplay reversed their decision allowing Glee the rights to their catalog 57 Adams posted on his Twitter account that the producers of Glee had never requested permission from him and urged them to pick up the phone 58 Composer and musician Billy Joel offered many of his songs for use on the show 59 and other artists have offered use of their songs for free 60 A series of Glee soundtrack albums have been released through Columbia Records Songs featured on the show are available for digital download through iTunes up to two weeks before new episodes air and through other digital outlets and mobile carriers a week later 48 Glee music producers Adam Anders and Peer Astrom have begun to add original music to the show including two original songs Loser like Me and Get It Right on the March 15 2011 episode 61 Glee is choreographed by Zach Woodlee and features four to eight production numbers per episode 19 Once Murphy selects a song rights are cleared with its publishers by music supervisor P J Bloom and music producers Adam Anders and Peer Astrom rearrange it for the Glee cast 48 Numbers are pre recorded by the cast while Woodlee constructs the accompanying dance moves which are then taught to the cast and filmed 41 Studio recordings of tracks are then made The process begins six to eight weeks before each episode is filmed and can end as late as the day before filming begins 48 Each episode costs at least 3 million to produce 41 and can take up to ten days to film as a result of the elaborate choreography 47 In late 2010 Bloom reported the process has been even shorter as quick as a few weeks 56 For the second season the creators were offered listens of upcoming songs in advance by publishers and record labels with production occurring even before song rights are cleared 56 Promotion Edit Further information Glee Live In Concert A promotional balloon for Glee in New York City Prior to the second episode s premiere Glee s cast went on tour at several Hot Topic stores across the nation 62 The cast sang the U S national anthem at the third game of the 2009 World Series 63 Macy s invited them to perform at the 2009 Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade but host broadcaster NBC declined because Glee aired on a rival network 64 Murphy commented on the cast s exclusion I completely understand NBC s position and look forward to seeing a Jay Leno float 65 The show s success sent the cast on a concert tour Glee Live In Concert after the first season s wrapup They visited Phoenix Chicago Los Angeles and New York 66 The cast also recorded a cover of Wham s Last Christmas which was released as a single in late 2009 but didn t appear in the show until A Very Glee Christmas on December 10 2010 48 Morrison Lynch Michele Monteith and Colfer reprised their roles as Will Sue Rachel Finn and Kurt respectively for a cameo appearance in an episode of The Cleveland Show that aired January 16 2011 67 Michele Monteith and Riley appeared as campers in the twenty second season premiere of The Simpsons 68 Lynch Colfer Monteith and Riley appeared at the 2010 MTV VMAs on September 12 2010 69 When Agron Michele and Monteith posed for a set of risque photos for the November 2010 edition of GQ magazine Parents Television Council PTC criticized the show PTC president Tim Winter commented that Glee has many young fans and that by authorizing this kind of near pornographic display the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show s direction And it isn t good for families 70 The promotional posters for the first season have the show s stars using their right hands to make an L to fill in the L of the word Glee The second season s promotional posters have the stars throwing slushies at the camera in pairs The third season s promotional posters have the stars getting dodgeballs thrown at them by Sue Sylvester While the cast concert tour Glee Live In Concert began on May 15 2010 and presented concerts in four cities in the US that month the second edition with an almost entirely new set list toured for four weeks in the US and Canada from May 21 through June 18 2011 and followed with twelve days in England and Ireland from June 22 through July 3 2011 71 The cast also performed on the seventh season of The X Factor on December 5 2010 72 Possible Continuation Edit In 2020 celebrating the show s 11 year anniversary Ryan Murphy made an Instagram post about his idea of re doing the show s pilot with Lea Michele Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein Murphy eventually deleted the post 73 In 2021 Fox President Michael Thorn revealed he was interested in reviving past Fox programs most notably 24 and Glee 74 In 2022 in an interview with Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz Ryan Murphy revealed he was interested in re examining the series as a brand through a reboot or a Broadway musical 75 Broadcast EditThe first season of Glee consists of twenty two episodes 76 The pilot episode was originally broadcast on May 19 2009 77 The series returned on September 9 2009 78 airing an additional twelve episodes on Wednesdays in the 9 00 pm timeslot until December 9 2009 for a total of thirteen episodes 79 On September 21 2009 nine more episodes were ordered for the first season by Fox 80 and the first of these episodes was broadcast on April 13 2010 These episodes aired on Tuesday evenings at 9 00 pm 81 On January 11 2010 it was announced that Fox had commissioned a second season of the show The second season began production in June 2010 82 83 Season two began on September 21 2010 84 airing in the 8 00 pm time slot on Tuesdays and consists of twenty two episodes 85 The show was chosen by Fox to fill the coveted timeslot that followed the network s coverage of Super Bowl XLV in 2011 86 and the network originally planned to move the show to the 9 00 pm time slot on Wednesdays following the post Super Bowl broadcast 87 However Fox later revised its schedule 88 leaving Glee on Tuesdays in order to concentrate on building up its weaker Wednesday and Thursday line ups 89 90 A third season was ordered by Fox on May 23 2010 before the end of the first season The early renewal of the show allowed the production team to cut costs and to plan ahead when writing scripts 91 The third season broadcasts remained in the show s Tuesday 8 00 pm time slot 92 and began airing on September 20 2011 93 94 The show s fourth season changed both date and time of broadcast it moved to Thursdays in the 9 00 pm time slot and aired after that evening s 8 00 pm music competition results shows The X Factor in the fall and American Idol in midseason 95 The show was renewed for both a fifth and sixth season at the same time on April 19 2013 96 Reruns were also syndicated to local US stations from 2013 to 2015 97 Glee has been syndicated for broadcast in many countries worldwide including Australia where cast members visited to promote the show prior to its September 2009 debut on Network Ten 98 Midway through season four Glee was moved to Network Ten s digital channel Eleven due to poor ratings 99 It also airs in Canada on City and previously Global 100 New Zealand 101 Fiji 102 and Trinidad and Tobago 103 104 105 It is broadcast in South Africa where Fox beams the episodes directly to the M Net broadcast center in Johannesburg rather than delivering the tapes 106 Asian countries that broadcast Glee include Bangladesh 107 the Philippines 108 India 107 Malaysia 109 and Singapore 110 111 All the episodes of the series were announced to be arriving on Disney in Latin America in February 2021 112 In the United States the series was made available on Disney and Hulu starting on June 1 2022 following its December 2021 departure from Netflix after over seven years as well as a year on Prime Video 113 114 UK trademark dispute Edit In the United Kingdom 115 E4 broadcast the first two seasons of Glee showing episodes months after they were first aired in the US Sky 1 broadcast the series starting with the third season airing episodes two days after their US broadcast 116 However the show has come under a trademark dispute in the UK with the Glee Club a small chain of independent live stand up comedy and live music venues In February 2014 a High Court judge ruled that the show diluted and tarnished the reputation of the comedy club chain 117 In a later ruling in July 2014 the High Court ordered Fox to use a different title for the show in the UK saying there was a likelihood of confusion between the two brands In February 2016 Fox lost an appeal against the decision 118 Merchandise EditMain article Glee merchandise Three soundtrack albums were released to accompany Glee s first season Glee The Music Volume 1 Glee The Music Volume 2 and Glee The Music Volume 3 Showstoppers 119 120 121 Two extended plays EP accompanied the episodes The Power of Madonna and Journey to Regionals Glee The Music The Power of Madonna and Glee The Music Journey to Regionals respectively 122 123 Glee The Music The Complete Season One a compilation album featuring all 100 studio recordings from the first season was released exclusively to the iTunes Store 124 Five soundtrack albums were released to accompany Glee s second season Glee The Music The Christmas Album featuring Christmas themed songs and Glee The Music Volume 4 were both released in November 2010 125 126 127 Glee The Music Volume 5 128 Glee The Music Presents the Warblers 129 and Glee The Music Volume 6 130 were 2011 releases in March April and May respectively An EP entitled Glee The Music The Rocky Horror Glee Show was released to accompany the Halloween episode The Rocky Horror Glee Show 131 Two EPs were released exclusively at the Target discount chain Glee The Music Love Songs in the last week of 2010 and Glee The Music Dance Party in early September 2011 132 133 Glee has been released on several DVD and Blu ray box sets Glee Pilot Episode Director s Cut features the pilot episode and a preview of the second episode Showmance 134 Glee Volume 1 Road to Sectionals contains the first thirteen episodes of season one 135 and Glee Volume 2 Road to Regionals contains the final nine episodes of the first season 136 Glee The Complete First Season was released on September 13 2010 137 Three boxed sets were released for the second season Glee Season 2 Volume 1 containing the first ten episodes on January 25 2011 138 and both Glee Season 2 Volume 2 with the final twelve episode and Glee The Complete Second Season with all twenty two on September 13 2011 139 All three were released on DVD only the complete season is available on Blu ray Little Brown Books has published three Glee related young adult novels all of which were developed in collaboration with the show s producers and writers 140 All three have been written by Sophia Lowell the first Glee The Beginning was released in August 2010 and serves as a prequel to the events of the television series 141 Subsequent novels include Glee Foreign Exchange released in February 2011 142 and Glee Summer Break released in July 2011 143 Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have plans for a line of Glee related merchandise including games electrical products greeting cards apparel and stationery 144 Macy s carry a line of Glee related clothing and Claire s stock accessories 145 Halfbrick Studios published a Glee content version of the mobile game Band Stars 146 by Six Foot Kid 147 in collaboration with Fox Digital Entertainment 148 on March 27 2014 currently available on iOS platforms but with plans to release to Android The game is available for free download with some Glee content available immediately including Kurt Hummel and Will Schuester 12 characters from the Glee TV show are available for purchase and download in two separate packs Pack 1 contains Rachel Berry Mercedes Jones Noah Puck Puckerman Jake Puckerman and Quinn Fabray Pack 2 contains Artie Abrams Tina Cohen Chang Blaine Anderson Santana Lopez Brittany Pierce and Unique Adams Reception EditSeason Nielsen ratings Critical responsePremiere total viewers in millions Finale total viewers in millions Season average total viewers inc DVR in millions Rank 18 49 rating share rank Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic1 2009 10 9 62 149 10 92 150 9 77 33 4 3 11 15 151 88 49 reviews 152 78 19 reviews 153 2 2010 11 12 45 154 11 80 155 10 11 43 6 0 43 156 79 29 reviews 157 76 11 reviews 158 3 2011 12 9 21 159 7 46 160 8 71 56 3 6 10 25 161 53 19 reviews 162 N A4 2012 13 7 41 163 5 92 164 8 26 50 3 3 25 165 65 23 reviews 166 73 6 reviews 167 5 2013 14 5 06 168 1 87 169 4 57 105 2 2 77 170 71 14 reviews 171 N A6 2014 15 2 34 172 2 54 173 3 14 148 1 2 120 174 72 18 reviews 175 N ARatings Edit The pilot episode of Glee averaged 9 62 million viewers 149 and the following eleven episodes attained between 6 10 and 7 65 million 176 177 The mid season finale was watched by 8 13 million viewers 178 with the show returning in April 2010 to a season high of 13 66 million viewers 179 The following six episodes attained between 11 49 and 12 98 million viewers 180 181 falling to 8 99 million for the penultimate episode Funk 182 Viewing figures rose to 11 07 million viewers for the season finale 150 giving Glee the highest finale rating for a new show in the 2009 10 television season 183 Only the first twenty episodes of the first season were accounted for when calculating the season average due to the final two episodes airing outside the traditional sweeps period 184 On February 6 2011 after the Super Bowl Glee received its highest ever ratings with over 26 8 million tuning in to see the special episode with a peak of 39 5 million 185 In 2011 Glee generated 2 million advertising revenue per half hour 186 In 2012 the show was the fourth highest revenue earning show of the year with US 2 83 million ad revenue per half hour behind Two and a Half Men The X Factor and American Idol 187 Critical reception Edit Rotten Tomatoes ratings per season Season 1 2 3 4 5 6Rating 88 152 79 157 53 162 65 166 71 171 72 175 Glee received a Metacritic score of 78 out of 100 in its first season based on reviews by eighteen critics indicating generally favorable reviews 188 It was praised by several critics in year end best of reviews in 2009 James Poniewozik of Time ranked it the eighth best television show of the year commenting when Glee works which is often it is transcendent tear jerking and thrilling like nothing else on TV 189 Entertainment Weekly s Ken Tucker ranked it ninth calling it Hands down the year s most novel show and also its least likely success 190 Lisa Respers France of CNN wrote that while ordinarily Glee s premise would have been a recipe for disaster the show has such quirky charm and bravado that it is impossible not to get swept up 191 Reviews for subsequent seasons on Metacritic reflecting their initial episodes were not quite as good the second season s score was 76 out of 100 from eleven reviews 192 and the fourth season received a score of 73 out of 100 from six reviews 193 Even with these stellar reviews from a multitude of critics Glee s later seasons lost millions of viewers Variety s Brian Lowry said that Jayma Mays as Emma offered modest redemption to an adult cast of over the top buffoons Nancy Gibbs of Time magazine wrote that she had heard the series described as anti Christian by a youth minister and commented It is easy to see his point if you look at the specifics The students lie they cheat they steal they lust they lace the bake sale cupcakes with pot in order to give the student body a severe case of the munchies Nearly all the Ten Commandments get violated at one point or another while the audience is invited to laugh at people s pain and folly and humiliation It insults kids to suggest that simply watching Characters Behaving Badly onscreen means they ll take that as permission to do the same themselves And it s set in high school meaning it s about a journey not just to college and career but to identity and conviction the price of popularity the compromises we must make between what we want and what we need 194 Variety s Brian Lowry was critical of the show s early episodes highlighting acting and characterization issues and deeming the adult cast over the top buffoons with the exception of Mays Emma who he felt offered modest redemption 195 Though he praised Colfer and Michele s performances Lowry wrote that the show s talent was squandered by its jokey cartoonish wildly uneven tone deeming the series a one hit wonder 196 Following the show s mid season finale Lowry wrote that while Glee remains a frustrating mess at times its vibrant musical numbers and talented cast have consistently kept it on his TiVo must list conceding that even with its flaws TV would be poorer without Glee 197 As Glee s initial success pulled in a large audience John Doyle of The Globe and Mail wrote that the early shows felt fresh mainly because the motley crew of kids had a kind of square naivete Doyle notes that the early success took Glee away from its original characters and plot focusing more on celebrity guests The gaiety is gone from Glee You should have set it in its prime mere months ago 198 Matthew Gilbert of Boston Globe similarly wrote that It has become a powerful promotional machine long on hype and short on the human feeling the glee that once made it so addictive 199 Music Edit The show s 754 musical performances with each performance delivering an individual song or a mashup of two or more songs in a single performance have led to commercial success with over thirty six million copies of Glee cast single releases purchased digitally and over eleven million albums purchased worldwide through October 2011 200 In 2009 the Glee cast had twenty five singles chart on the Billboard Hot 100 the most by any artist since The Beatles had thirty one songs in the chart in 1964 201 in 2010 it placed eighty singles on the Billboard Hot 100 far outstripping the previous record 202 In February 2011 Glee surpassed Elvis Presley as the act with the most songs placed on the Billboard Hot 100 chart though fewer than one fourth of them have charted for more than one week 203 The cast performance of Don t Stop Believin was certified gold on October 13 2009 achieving over 500 000 digital sales 204 and on March 16 2011 received platinum certification for having sales of over a million 205 The series cover version had a positive effect on sales of Rihanna s Take a Bow which increased by 189 percent after the song was covered in the Glee episode Showmance 204 However there has also been critical condemnation of the cast performances Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone commented that Matthew Morrison couldn t rap his way out of a 98 rehearsal and AllMusic s Andrew Leahey wrote that Cory Monteith and Dianna Agron can t sing nearly as well as their co stars 206 E Online s Joal Ryan criticized the show for its overproduced soundtrack and complained that many songs rely too heavily on the pitch correcting software Auto Tune For every too brief moment of Lea Michele sounding raw and lovely on a What a Girl Wants or Monteith singing a perfectly credible REO Speedwagon in the shower there s Michele and Monteith sounding like 1990s era Cher on No Air or Monteith sounding like the Monteith XRZ 200 on the out of the shower version of Can t Fight This Feeling 207 During the second season Rob Sheffield for Rolling Stone noted the Britney Spears and Rocky Horror tribute episodes as examples when he lauded Glee and its choice of music He praised Murphy for his selection and resurrection of forgotten pop songs and compared the show s uniqueness to MTV in its prime as the embodiment of popular culture 208 Some artists including Slash Kings of Leon and Foo Fighters have declined to have their songs used on the show Murphy has been publicly critical of these refusals which has led to exchanges in the press between him and a number of artists 209 A slated cover of Sir Mix a Lot s Baby Got Back in the season four episode Sadie Hawkins has been criticized for blatantly copying a rendition of the song by Jonathan Coulton without his permission without giving creative credit 210 211 Side by Side comparison shows the waveforms appear remarkably similar Other artists have come forward with allegations of plagiarism in light of this development 212 It was reported that musician Prince had not given permission for Glee to cover his hit Kiss before filming the performance of the cover 213 Gorillaz founder Damon Albarn said on CBC Radio One that he would not let the show cover any Gorillaz songs Firstly write your own songs Two have your own identity and stop being the slaves of TV producers who don t give a shit about you 214 Fandom Edit Fans of Glee are commonly referred to as gleeks 215 a portmanteau of glee and geek Fox ran a Biggest GLEEK competition measuring fans Glee related activity on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace and found that the growth of the fanbase outpaced the network s science fiction shows 216 The cast s Hot Topic tour was titled The Gleek Tour 62 Glee is one of the most tweeted about TV shows 217 In 2011 it was the top trending US TV show 218 On IMDb Glee is the seventh highest ranking TV series of the period 2002 2012 219 Fans have recreated many of its musical numbers in tribute to the show sharing them on YouTube Based on this trend show producers included instrumental versions of some songs on the show s soundtracks 217 Similarly Glee fans have created portmanteaus of character couples such as Finchel for Finn and Rachel Samcedes for Sam and Mercedes Klaine for Kurt and Blaine and Brittana for Brittany and Santana This fact has been referenced in various second season episodes notably Furt which is itself a coinage for the new stepbrothers Finn and Kurt and Rumours 220 221 Awards and accolades Edit Main article List of awards and nominations received by Glee Jane Lynch Ian Brennan and Jessalyn Gilsig at the 69th Annual Peabody Awards for Glee Glee has received a number of awards and nominations In 2009 the series won five Satellite Awards Best Musical or Comedy TV Series Best Actor and Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series for Morrison and Michele Best Supporting Actress for Lynch and Special Achievement for Outstanding Guest Star for Kristin Chenoweth 222 In 2010 the show won a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series Musical or Comedy Morrison Michele and Lynch also received acting nominations 223 The series was nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards with screenplays nominated in the Comedy Series and New Series categories 224 It also won a Peabody Award in 2009 225 226 The Glee cast won the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series award at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards 227 Paris Barclay and Ryan Murphy both received nominations for Outstanding Directing Comedy Series at the Directors Guild of America Awards for their work on Glee 228 In July 2010 Glee received nineteen Emmy Award nominations including Outstanding Comedy Series Outstanding Lead Actor Comedy Series for Morrison and Outstanding Lead Actress Comedy Series for Michele it won four of these including Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Lynch and Outstanding Guest Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for Neil Patrick Harris 229 Paris Barclay was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Best Directing in a Comedy Series in 2010 for his episode Wheels 230 On January 16 2011 the show won a Golden Globe for Best Television Series Musical or Comedy and both Lynch and Colfer won Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series Miniseries or TV Film 231 In July 2011 Glee received twelve Emmy nominations and won two Gwyneth Paltrow was named Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Holly Holliday and the show won the Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series category 229 It received three Emmy nominations in July 2012 and four in July 2013 229 The whole cast was invited to sing at the White House by Michelle Obama in April 2010 for the annual Easter Egg Roll 232 Film EditGlee The Concert Movie a concert film based on the four week North American segment of the 2011 Glee Live In Concert tour and featuring the cast of the series in performance and backstage was released in the United States and the United Kingdom on August 12 2011 for a two week limited engagement The film is directed by Kevin Tancharoen 18 Related media EditIn January 2010 it was announced that open auditions would be held for three new roles to be introduced in Glee s second season They were open to amateurs and professionals aged sixteen to twenty six and were intended to be the subject of a multi part television special set to air in the lead in to the second season premiere in fall 2010 with the new cast members revealed in the first episode 82 Murphy commented Anybody and everybody now has a chance to be on a show about talented underdogs We want to be the first interactive musical comedy on television 233 On June 22 2010 Josef Adalian of New York magazine revealed that the reality show would not go ahead due to Murphy s desire to concentrate on the main series and fear that the distraction of the reality show may damage Glee Adalian reported that the production team would still choose several winners from the entrants and invite them to appear on Glee for at least one episode 234 In June 2010 it was announced that Oxygen would host a reality series set to air in June 2011 featuring performers competing for a spot on Glee 235 236 The Glee Project started airing on June 12 2011 and the final episode was broadcast on August 21 2011 237 The winning prize was a seven episode guest starring role in Glee s third season which was awarded to two contestants Damian McGinty and Samuel Larsen with a two episode role given to the two runner ups Alex Newell and Lindsay Pearce 238 The Glee Project was renewed for a second season that ran from June 5 to August 14 2012 with Blake Jenner as the winner The show was not renewed for a third season On June 7 2010 UK broadcaster Channel 4 aired Gleeful The Real Show Choirs of America on its E4 station The documentary explored the American show choir phenomenon which inspired Glee 239 Narrated by Nick Grimshaw 240 it went behind the scenes with real life glee clubs and detailed celebrity show choir alumni including Lance Bass Ashton Kutcher Blake Lively and Anne Hathaway 241 It was selected as recommended viewing by The Guardian with the comment it s a fascinating look at the real life New Directions and it s equally as crackers as its TV champion 242 The newspaper s Lucy Mangan reviewed the documentary positively writing It will one way or another fill your heart to bursting and commenting that Glee it turns out is not a gloriously ridiculous highly polished piece of escapism It is cinema verite 243 It was watched by 411 000 viewers a 2 3 audience share 244 In summer 2010 Channel 5 in the United Kingdom aired Don t Stop Believing a reality talent show inspired by Glee s success The series featured live shows in which established and new musical performance groups competed against each other performing well known songs in new arrangements with viewers voting on the winner 245 Solo singers were also sought to join a group to represent the United Kingdom on the American glee club circuit 246 247 Five s controller Richard Woolfe stated There s an explosion in musical performance groups and Don t Stop Believing will tap into that exciting groundswell 248 The show was hosted by Emma Bunton 249 who told The Belfast Telegraph that she is a huge fan of Glee 250 The show s judges were former EastEnders actress Tamsin Outhwaite Blue member Duncan James singer Anastacia and High School Musical choreographer Charles Chucky Klapow 251 A three episode documentary miniseries about the deaths of three Glee main cast members and claiming to investigate the effect of the sudden fame they experienced due to the show on their personal lives called The Price of Glee was produced in 2022 with people related to the series finding it in poor taste 252 253 Discography EditAlbums Edit Main article Glee albums discography Glee The Music Volume 1 Glee The Music Volume 2 Glee The Music Volume 3 Showstoppers Glee The Music The Christmas Album Glee The Music Volume 4 Singles Edit Main article Glee songs discography Songs Edit Main article Lists of songs in Glee TV series See also Edit Television 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