Where to watch Glee (2009–2015)
Glee is available to stream in BR on Disney+.
An optimistic high school teacher revives his school’s struggling glee club, bringing together a group of outcasts with big dreams. As they prepare for singing competitions, the students navigate rivalry, friendship, romance, bullying, and the challenges of fitting in at McKinley High.
Cast: Carnie Wilson, Gregory Hinton, Jon Robert Hall, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Emilee Wallace, Stacey Sargeant, Rane Jameson, Ali Stroker, Dan Considine, Marie Caldare, Melissa Benoist
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Trivia & production notes
- Ian Brennan conceived Glee based on his experience in a show choir at Prospect High School in Mount Prospect, Illinois, initially developing it as a film script in August 2005 with help from a screenwriting how-to book.
- Ryan Murphy received Brennan's script through a gym connection and pitched the television adaptation idea alongside Brad Falchuk, a colleague from Nip/Tuck, leading Fox to pick up the project within fifteen hours.
- For the first two seasons, only the three creators wrote Glee, with Ryan Murphy comparing their roles to different functions: he was the brain, Falchuk the heart, and Brennan the funny bone.
- Ian Brennan handled most of Sue Sylvester's dialogue while Brad Falchuk frequently wrote Kurt and Burt Hummel's scenes, though Ryan Murphy also contributed significantly to Kurt's material.
- Ryan Murphy personally selected every song used in Glee and structured episodes around musical themes, deliberately balancing chart hits with show tunes to appeal to varied audience tastes.
- Bryan Adams and Guns N' Roses refused to allow Glee to use their music, while Adams publicly tweeted that the show's producers had never even requested permission from him.
- Each Glee episode cost at least three million dollars to produce and could require up to ten days of filming due to elaborate choreography involving four to eight production numbers per episode.
- Choreographer Zach Woodlee constructed dance routines for pre-recorded cast vocals, with the entire process from song selection to finished episode taking six to eight weeks, sometimes condensing to just a few weeks by the second season.
- NBC declined to have the Glee cast perform at the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade because the show aired on rival network Fox.
- The cast recorded a cover of Wham!'s "Last Christmas" in late 2009, but the song did not air on the show until the December 2010 Christmas episode despite being released as a single earlier.
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