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Revision as of 23:28, 25 August 2010
| Glee (season 2) | |
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| Season 2 | |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | September 21, 2010 |
| Season chronology | |
The second season of the musical comedy-drama television series Glee will premiere on September 21, 2010 on Fox in the United States, and will consist of 22 episodes. The season will initially air in the 8 pm (ET) time slot on Tuesdays, then move to the 9 pm (ET) time slot on Wednesdays after a special episode following the 2011 Super Bowl. The season will be produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Ryan Murphy Television, with series creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk as executive producers, alongside Dante Di Loreto.
The series focuses on a high school glee club called New Directions, set within the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. Season two will follow the club through sectional and regional show choir competitions, to the national competition in New York City.
Episodes
- Series # refers to the episode's number in the overall series.
- Season # refers to the episode's number within that particular season.
| Series # |
Season # |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 1 | "Auditions"[1] | Unknown | Unknown | September 21, 2010[2] | TBA |
| 24 | 2 | "Britney/Brittany"[3] | Ryan Murphy[4] | Unknown | September 28, 2010[5] | TBA |
| 25 | 3 | "Faith"[6] | Unknown | Unknown | October 5, 2010 | TBA |
| 26 | 4 | "TBA" | Unknown | Unknown | October 12, 2010 | TBA |
| 27 | 5 | "TBA" | Ryan Murphy[4] | Unknown | October 19, 2010[4] | TBA |
Production
The season will be produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Ryan Murphy Television, and will air on Fox in the U.S. The executive producers are series creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, and Dante Di Loreto, with creator Ian Brennan acting as co-executive producer.[7] While season one was written exclusively by Murphy, Falchuk and Brennan, they plan on taking on five or six new writers from January 2010 to ensure the longevity of the show.[8] Adam Shankman will guest-direct one of the first ten episodes.[4]
The season will air from September 21, 2010,[2] in the 8/7c timeslot on Tuesdays.[9] A special tribute episode[3] (which has been confirmed to be either Prince, The Beatles, or Michael Jackson)[10] will air after Super Bowl XLV on February 6, 2011, and the show will then make its spring premiere on Wednesdays at 9/8c, following American Idol.[9] The series producers are in talks with Fox to extend the length of the season to 25 episodes, rather than the customary 22.[11] The season finale is planned to end with the national show choir competition taking place in New York City.[12]
The second episode will be a Britney Spears tribute episode (with recreations of fifteen of her music videos),[13][14] centered around glee club member Brittany, who will cover two of her songs, out of six in the episode.[15][3] There are plans for a sequel to the episode "The Power of Madonna" featuring six Madonna songs,[16][17] an episode featuring songs from The Rocky Horror Show,[18] including "The Time Warp",[4] an episode featuring a religious theme (including covers of Barbra Streisand's "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion"),[18] and an episode featuring original songs.[19] Artists being considered to be covered on Glee include Courtney Love, Billy Joel, and Led Zeppelin.[20] In addition, Coldplay has allowed the show to cover any of their songs.[21] Music by Paul McCartney has been confirmed to be covered on the show.[22] The writers plan on reducing the number of musical performances to average five per episode, in order to increase focus on the characters.[23][3]
Cast
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Casting
The twelve main cast members from season one will return for season two: Matthew Morrison as glee club director Will Schuester, Jane Lynch as cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, Jayma Mays as guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury, Jessalyn Gilsig as Will's ex-wife Terri Schuester and Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, Mark Salling and Jenna Ushkowitz as glee club members Quinn Fabray, Kurt Hummel, Artie Abrams, Rachel Berry, Finn Hudson, Mercedes Jones, Noah "Puck" Puckerman and Tina Cohen-Chang.[7] Heather Morris has confirmed to TV Guide's William Keck that she and Naya Rivera, who portray the currently recurring roles of Brittany and Santana Lopez respectively, will be promoted to series regulars, but have yet to sign their contracts to do so.[24] Mike O'Malley, who plays Burt Hummel will also become a series regular in season two.[25]
Supporting cast member Harry Shum, Jr. will have an increased role as glee club member Mike Chang. Guest stars Jonathan Groff, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel will return as Jesse St. James, April Rhodes and Shelby Corcoran respectively,[26][27][28] and Murphy is hopeful that Neil Patrick Harris will return as Will's high school rival Bryan Ryan.[26] Kurt will get his first boyfriend and they will become a school power-couple,[29] and Charice will play a foreign exchange student from the Philippines and rival to Rachel.[30] On June 8, 2010, it was announced that John Stamos, who was derided by Emma in "Acafellas" as having "more certainty than talent", has been cast as her new love interest.[31] Susan Boyle will guest-star in the Christmas episode as a cafeteria worker,[22] and Javier Bardem will guest-star during the second half of the season.[32] Dot Jones will appear as football coach Shannon Beiste, replacing Patrick Gallagher as Ken Tanaka.[33][34] Chord Overstreet will play Sam Evans, a transferring student athlete who befriends Finn at first, but ends up becoming his rival.[35][36] Cheyenne Jackson will play Vocal Adrenaline's new coach, replacing the role previously played by Menzel.[37] Sue Sylvester's mother will also be introduced this season, to be played by stage and screen legend Carol Burnett.[38]
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 16 to 26, 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.[39] 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."[40] 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.[41]
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