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Glee: what’s up for Season Three?

Spoilers: What does Ryan Murphy have planned for Season 3 of Glee?

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Spoilers: Glee creator Ryan Murphy has spoken about some of his plans for Season 3 of Glee with The Hollywood Reporter.

He is promising just one tribute episode, less songs, less pop, less guest stars and big character arcs, including between Sue Sylvester and the winner of the The Glee Project, who joins for multiple episodes. Not everyone is likely to graduate together.

THR: Chris Colfer and Lea Michele are clearly the stars of Glee. Will you really write them out of the show entirely after next season?

Ryan Murphy: You know, people have been asking me that a lot. The thing that I’m saying officially is, yes I do have a plan. The great thing about season three is we’re writing toward something [the characters’ senior years in high school]. There is a conclusion, which is great for a writer. We literally just started [planning out the season]. So I don’t know for sure what will happen with those characters I love and everybody else has loved. We haven’t really made that decision. Some of the characters clearly have academic issues. Like Heather Morris’ Brittany I’m sure gets straight Fs. I would not be shocked to see her flunk. I love her.

Murphy: [Rachel and Kurt] are two characters who I am very fond of personally and they will always get great material. We have great stuff for them. I think Lea [Michele] is hilarious. So we’re going to write some big stuff [for her]. I’m really interested in seeing Rachel’s gay dads who we’ve never met. I’ve said that I don’t want to do that. But maybe now is the time to do it. Also, we want to give Chris Colfer a really fun uplifting story line after the heaviness of last year.

THR: Are you doing away with all tribute episodes next season?

Murphy: I’m doing one.

THR: Will it be a supersized episode?

Murphy: I don’t know. I have to talk to [Fox Broadcasting chairman] Peter Rice and [Fox Entertainment president] Kevin Reilly about that. It’s somebody who we’ve all been going after for two years begging them to do it and they finally said yes. And it was a really long rights struggle.

THR: So less singing, more talking?

Murphy: Some episodes we had six songs, some episodes we had ten, which I thought was too many. I think we’ll probably end up trying to do four [songs per episode], which seems right to me. Last year was a lot of pop music too. And we won’t be doing as much of that this year.

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  3. Sounds like he still hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing. And they said exactly the same thing last year about reducing the number of songs, but it didn’t happen – they keep them in to cover the very weak writing and storyline development. The two big storylines of the end of season 1 – Quinn and Pucks baby and Rachel’s mother – never even got a mention in season 2.

  4. Steps to fix Glee:

    1. hire enough writing staff to produce complete, coherent scripts (seem to be on the way to at least attempt this)
    2. stop commissioning lame, gimmicky “original songs” (remains to be seen)

    that’ll fix it for a while…

  6. @Jerome. you could be right but they have already done a few of babs’ songs like papa can you hear me/dont rain on my parade/my man but a whole ep devoted to her would be awesome !

  7. @ JB,

    If you think some of the songs Glee did had been “in the charts for 2 weeks”, you should probably keep up with music trends a bit better. I cannot think of a single song that was on Glee less then a month after it was made popular by it’s original artist.

  10. Beatles episode? Abba? Elton John?
    They’re gonna have to graduate sometime, so of course new characters need to come in and others go. And yes they did far too many pop stars last season. They seemed to do songs that had been in the charts for 2 weeks, just for the sake of doing new songs, and they never really worked.

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