It’s been a while since Glee went on hiatus. And here’s good news for all of us gleeks! When Glee returns on April 13, 2010, the show will have even more musical numbers per episode!
Ryan Murphy, creator of Glee, said that in their first fifteen episodes, they’ve been averaging five or six songs. In the next nine episodes, they’re doing an average of eight to ten songs! “The back nine is about the regionals competition,” Ryan Murphy continued.
Murphy said that the plan of airing the pilot episode following the American Idol finale last spring, and then waiting for four months before launching the series with the rest of its fall shows (and now it’s on another four-month break) was Fox‘s idea, although he was consulting on it, and “it definitely paid off. I think it worked because the show is about thinking outside the box, and doing things that are unusual. They picked it up because they didn’t want just another network show. They wanted to do something unusual and strange. And so that philosophy has gone into the marketing of it.”
