Ryan Murphy says he has finished writing a script for a revival of "Glee," the high school musical dramedy that became a cultural phenomenon after its 2009 premiere, reigniting years of on-and-off speculation about whether the show's cast might reunite for a new chapter.
"So, we have a script," Murphy said on Entertainment Tonight, describing a writing process that reunited him with original "Glee" writers Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, who together shaped the show's first two seasons before it ran for six years on Fox. Murphy said he has spoken with roughly ten members of the original cast about returning and that all of them expressed interest, though he stopped short of confirming who specifically might appear in any new iteration.
Not Yet a Done Deal
No streaming service or network has formally ordered a revival, and Murphy's comments stop well short of confirming a premiere date or even a firm production timeline. Because 20th Television, the studio behind the original "Glee," is now part of Disney, any new version would most plausibly land on Hulu or Disney+, the platforms where the original series has streamed since Netflix's streaming rights lapsed at the end of 2021. "Glee" returned to Hulu and Disney+ in June 2022, timed to Pride Month in recognition of the show's prominent LGBTQ storylines, which were groundbreaking for a mainstream network series at the time.
Earlier, unverified reports had claimed Disney ordered a revival starring Anthony Ramos, but no official confirmation of that casting has surfaced, and Murphy's own account — a completed script and informal cast outreach, but no greenlight — suggests any such reporting was, at minimum, premature.
A Show That Defined a Decade
"Glee" ran for six seasons and became one of the defining pop-culture phenomena of its era, launching the careers of Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss and others while turning glee-club cover songs into a genuine commercial force on music charts. The show was also marked by real-life tragedy: star Cory Monteith died in 2013 during the show's run, and the series wrote his character's death into its plot the following season, an unusually raw moment of overlap between a scripted show and its cast's real lives that still colors how many fans remember the series.
A revival, if it materializes, would arrive into a television landscape utterly transformed from the one "Glee" first conquered — one dominated by streaming rather than broadcast scheduling, and one where the show's once-groundbreaking approach to queer teen characters is now far more common across the medium. Whether a new "Glee" can recapture its original cultural momentum, or whether it risks becoming a nostalgia exercise that struggles to find a fresh audience, is likely to be a central question for any platform deciding whether to greenlight Murphy's script.
What's Next
Murphy has not said when he expects a decision from a platform, and representatives for Disney and Hulu have not publicly commented on the status of any revival talks. For now, the strongest evidence that a new "Glee" is coming remains Murphy's own account of a finished script and a cast that, by his telling, is ready to sing again.
