Biography - Glee - Keep On Believin' (FULL SHOW) [HD]
The
Biography channel's documentary on
FOX's hit
TV series Glee.
Glee is an
American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the
Fox network in the
United States. It focuses on the fictitious
William McKinley High School glee club,
New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition circuit while its disparate members deal with relationships, sexuality, social issues, and learning to become an effective team. The initial twelve-member cast included club director and
Spanish teacher
Will Schuester (
Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach
Sue Sylvester (
Jane Lynch), guidance counselor
Emma Pillsbury (
Jayma Mays), Will's wife
Terri (
Jessalyn Gilsig), and eight club members played by
Dianna Agron,
Chris Colfer,
Kevin McHale,
Lea Michele,
Cory Monteith,
Amber Riley,
Mark Salling, and
Jenna Ushkowitz. In subsequent seasons, the main cast has expanded to fourteen and fifteen members.
The series was created by
Ryan Murphy,
Brad Falchuk, and
Ian Brennan, the last 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 fifth season premiered on
September 26,
2013, and a sixth season has already been commissioned. Glee features on-screen performance-based musical numbers that are selected by Murphy, who aims to maintain a balance between show tunes and chart hits, and produced by
Adam Anders and
Peer Åström.
Songs covered in the show are 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 thirty-six 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. 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 eighteen critical reviews. The season was nominated for nineteen
Emmy Awards, four
Golden Globe Awards, six
Satellite Awards and fifty-seven 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.
On
October 17, 2013, in the wake of the death of Cory Monteith three months earlier, and a week after his tribute episode "
The Quarterback" was aired, Murphy announced that the sixth season would be the final season of the series.