Friday 15 May 2009

Glee

The new show from Nip Tuck creator Ryan Murphy starts on the 19th. Pulled in by the original teaser trailer featuring the power ballads of all ballads Journey's Don't Stop Believin'. This show as the potential to be the next big show, harnessing the incredible popularity of High School Musical and jamming it into a more adult framework. Time will tell whether Don't Stop Believin' will bookend the ending of one great show (The Sopranos) and the beginning of another. However it does have all the ingredients; high school cliques, Jock with a heart and a soul for singing, tracy flick esque high achiever, sassy black girl; crippled kid; a caring teacher, caring teachers nutty wife and the brilliant Jane Lynch as a sardonic Cheerleading coach.

The business savvy people at Fox have made the smart move of debuting the show after the finale of American Idol which regularly pulls in 20 million plus viewers. Combined with the move to release the songs sung in the show on I Tunes directly after the show finishes someone should be making some cash/money.




It could become as hard to miss this show as it is to be water boarded.

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