Glee

Hit musical comedy Glee is in pole position to end 30 Rock's three-year run as best comedy in the nominations for the US TV Emmy Awards.

Glee, which has 19 nominations in total, and 30 Rock go up against Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, Nurse Jackie and The Office.

HBO's World War II mini-series The Pacific, co-produced by Steven Spielberg, leads the way with 24 nods.

The 62nd Emmy Awards will take place on 29 August in Los Angeles.

Glee, which is broadcast on E4 and Channel 4 in the UK, also received best comedy actor nominations for Matthew Morrison, who plays teacher Will Schuester, and Lea Michele - Rachel Berry in the series.

Morrison goes up against actors including previous winner Steve Carell of The Office - with his fifth nomination in a row - and Curb Your Enthusiasm' s Larry David.

Dame Judi Dench previously received a nomination for Cranford in 2008 The Pacific is nominated in categories including best mini-series in which it goes up against the BBC's Return To Cranford, starring Dame Judi Dench.

Dame Judi is nominated for best actress in a mini-series for Cranford and is pitched against fellow Briton Dame Maggie Smith for Capturing Mary.

The equivalent category for an actor is also a battle of the Britons with nominees including Sir Ian McKellen, for The Prisoner, and Michael Sheen, for his role as Tony Blair in The Special Relationship - also nominated for best TV movie.

Period drama Mad Men has 17 nominations including for best drama series, a category which includes vampire show True Blood and Lost, which ended this year after six seasons.

Lost star Matthew Fox is nominated for best actor in a drama against fellow contenders including Hugh Laurie for House.

The British actor won the equivalent Golden Globe award in 2006 and 2007.

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Gleeful reaction to Emmy nods by some of the stars



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Glee creator Ryan Murphy has suggested that the second season will be more "intimate".

Murphy told Entertainment Weekly that he wants the new episodes of the show to include fewer songs.

"The second season will be more intimate and quieter with less musical numbers," he said. "People expect that we're going to keep trying to top ourselves and out-Madonna ourselves. But we're actually doing the opposite of that."

Murphy added that he is excited about exploring the show's characters in more depth.

"I love the characters we've created," he said. "I love that I'm doing a whole episode around Heather Morris [Brittany]. We've finished a couple of the scripts and I love them even more than I did the first season. I just think they're more emotional and funnier."

The second season of Glee will premiere on September 21 on Fox.

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Singer Susan Boyle and the music of Paul McCartney are set to feature in the new season of TV musical comedy Glee.

Glee creator Ryan Murphy has said that Britain's Got Talent star Boyle will feature in a Christmas episode.

She is expected to play a high school lunch lady.

Murphy also said that former Beatle McCartney had written to him suggesting his music be included in the hit series, about a high school choir.

"I received some fantastic mixed tapes from Paul McCartney a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was being punked!," Murphy said, in a reference to a prank TV show.

"It came out of blue in a package, handwritten, and it had two CDs and it said 'Hi Ryan, I hope you will consider some of these songs for Glee'.

"I had heard that he is a fan of the show. I was gob-smacked... so of course we are going to do something with him," Murphy said.

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Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is to star in the hit US show Glee, creator Ryan Murphy has confirmed.

Murphy told the BBC he had written a part specifically for the Shakespeare In Love and Iron Man star.

"Gwyneth is a great singer. She's done it a little bit but I really want to show it off and show everyone how great she is," he said.

Paltrow will star in two episodes of the second series as a substitute teacher for Glee coach Mr Schuester.

Oscar winner Javier Bardem will also appear in a forthcoming episode, although Murphy says the No Country for Old Men star - whom he directs in Julia Roberts' new film Eat, Pray Love - did not need much persuading.

"Let me set the record straight - I didn't have to convince him, he begged!" he said.

"He loves the show and wants to play a crazy Spanish rock and roll singer so I'm going to do that."

Paltrow's vocal talents have been showcased on film before - both in the 2000 film Duets, opposite Huey Lewis, and in 2006's Infamous, where she performed Cole Porter's What Is This Thing Called Love?

She also appeared on stage to sing with Jay-Z at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2006.

The actress will also star as a fallen country singer in her next film, Country Strong, which is due to be released next year.

The second series of Glee began in the US on Tuesday night and is scheduled to air in the UK on E4 from January.


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The team behind Glee is reportedly planning a Christmas special.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the festive episode has now been confirmed.

Details of what will happen during the show have not yet been revealed.

However, previous rumours suggested that executive producer Ryan Murphy was hoping to secure Susan Boyle for the episode.

Next week, Glee will pay tribute to The Rocky Horror Picture Show for Halloween.

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'Glee': Ryan Murphy says characters will graduate by 2012, but should any of them stick around?


With all the rehearsing for Sectionals and frequent trips to Breadstix, it’s easy to forget that the kids of McKinley High School are actually students, who should be graduating in a couple years (well, in Brittany’s case, that date is TBD). Ryan Murphy has begun to address Glee‘s future by revealing plans to routinely add new students to the mix (what is this, Menudo?), rather than prolong current characters’ high school existence. “Every year we’re going to populate a new group,” Murphy told Australia’s Herald Sun. “There’s nothing more depressing than a high schooler with a bald spot.”

True, rival group The Hipsters didn’t exactly give an inspired performance on Tuesday night, but can you imagine Glee without its current stars? “I think you have to be true to the fact that here is a group of people who come and go in these teachers’ lives — they graduate and they’re gone,” Murphy said. “When some of them finish their run at high school it will be very teary episodes.” It’s no secret that graduation poses a challenge for television series; The OC, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, and Gossip Girl have all had varied success transitioning to life beyond prom nights and basketball games (One Tree Hill skipped five years into the future, while Gossip Girl relies on its NYC locale to allow its characters to “attend” college while plotting a good old-fashioned take down). According to Murphy, these changes won’t happen until 2012, but is there any way some of the current Glee stars could stay in the picture? What if Santana became Head Coach of the Cheerios (only after Sue Sylvester was elected the first female President of the United States), and Puck continued his pool cleaning business only to marry a wealthy cougar (the return of April Rhodes!). Other characters are more complicated: Rachel has to leave Ohio, if only to secure multiple Tony wins by the time she’s 25 (which leaves no time for working at Dairy Queen after graduation), and Kurt probably belongs where his fashion sense will be more appreciated, and his Michael Kors will be protected.

But what about a post-high school Glee that follows our favorite characters? Yes, the cheesy goodness of Saved by the Bell: The College Years paled in comparison to the original (no Jesse, Lisa, or Mr. Belding, for starters), but it still gave you the same feeling you were looking for (with only half the calories). As one astute PopWatcher pointed out, high school show choir is only the beginning for the kids of New Directions. Why not send some of them to college where they can join a co-ed a cappella group or theater company? And if some kids aren’t continuing their education, but plan on sticking around town (i.e. Puck and his burgeoning pool cleaning business), GoogleMaps just showed me that Lima, Ohio is home to the University of Northwestern Ohio — and I hear the dorms are pretty nice? Problem solved! Impromptu sing offs all day long.

What do you think, PopWatchers: Will graduation day mark the end of Glee as you know it? Can you get behind the possibility of new characters, or are you in favor of still following Rachel, Finn, et al., through graduation and beyond?

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Glee season two starts on monday 10th january 2011 at 9pm on E4

TV hit Glee is ending its run on E4 after Channel 4 walked away from negotiations for the next series of the US musical drama, the broadcaster has announced.
The all-singing and all-dancing TV show about high school students who are members of the Glee singing club has become a hit in Britain.

But a Channel 4 source said that the broadcaster was "not prepared to pay over the odds" for the show.

The Fox show, which has run for two series on digital channel E4, is thought to be moving to Sky.

A Channel 4 spokesperson said: "By not renewing the Glee deal, we are freeing up huge amounts of budget to invest in home-grown programming, British talent and of course continuing to discover and showcase what the US has to offer.

"We are particularly thrilled to have recently acquired The Killing."

The broadcaster recently announced that it would be showing the US remake of The Killing, which is based on the Danish series Forbrydelsen.

Comedy-drama Glee, which was first shown on E4 in 2009, has acquired celebrity guest stars and fans such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Britney Spears.

The second series has dropped from around 2.6 million viewers at its start to 2.1 million, but it is still E4's biggest hit.

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Apparently Sky offered double what C4 were paying.