Glee is really a musical comedy television sequence airing on Fox. It was designed by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan. The pilot episode with the present was transmit on May well nineteen, '09, as well as the rest in the season began on September 9, 2009. Fox to begin with ordered 13 episodes of Glee, choosing the present up for a complete period on Sept twenty one, '09, ordering nine a lot more episodes. The the rest of your initial year or so aired from April thirteen, 2010 to June 8, the year 2010 once the period finale was held. The series has been renewed for both a second[6] along with a 3rd period.

The series focuses on a high college present choir, also known as being a glee club, in the fictional William McKinley Higher School in Lima, Ohio. Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) will take over glee club right after the former teacher (Stephen Tobolowsky) is fired for inappropriate contact with a male pupil. Having a rag-tag group of misfit teenagers, Will attempts to restore the glee membership to its former glory, although tending to his wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig), his creating feelings for his co-worker Emma (Jayma Mays), and defending glee club's existence from your conniving cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch).

The collection was made by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, who initial conceived Glee being a movie. The pilot episode was broadcast on May 19, 2009, and also the very first period aired from Sept nine, '09 to June eight, 2010. The 2nd time of year started airing on September twenty one, the year 2010, along with a 3rd period continues to be commissioned. Glee features on-screen performance-based musical numbers which are selected by Murphy, who aims to sustain a balance in between display tunes and chart hits.

Songs coated in the show are launched by way of the iTunes Retailer all through the week of broadcast, as well as a sequence of Glee albums have already been launched by Columbia Data. The music of Glee continues to be a business success, with over thirteen million digital single sales and 5 million album sales. The series' merchandise also contains DVD and Blu-Ray releases, a youthful adult e-book sequence, an iPad application, and also a karaoke game for the Wii.

During its initially period, Glee received normally favorable critiques from critics, with Metacritic's weighted typical based mostly on the impression of 18 vital critiques of 77 %. The couple of years was nominated for nineteen Emmy Awards, four Golden World Awards, six Satellite Awards and fifty-seven other awards, with wins such as the 2010 Golden World Award for Best Television Series—Musical or Comedy, and Primetime Emmy awards for Lynch, guest-star Neil Patrick Harris and Murphy's direction in the pilot episode.