‘Glee’: Could Lea Michele, Naya Rivera, and the cast last four more years?
Even though “Glee” is currently in its fourth season on Fox, executive producer Ryan Murphy is looking forward to the future … especially when it comes to a potential end date for the show down the road. While there’s little question that we are looking at a pop-culture phenomenon that has broken records in the world of music, you also have to remember that this is a show that has slowly and surely declined in the ratings every since it first premiered back in 2009. The good news? The DVR numbers are still great, and the survival of the show here on out will likely just depend on how much stock Fox puts in them.
For Murphy, he tells The Hollywood Reporter that he really could see the show, despite it really being about young people and high school, going all the way to an eighth season:
“So I feel like we finally figured out how to make it work, and I think we could get another four years from this show.”
If “Glee” for whatever reason does make it this long, then by the time it ends Rachel (Lea Michele), Quinn (Dianna Agron), and some of the other graduates will have also wrapped up their time in college, and will be starting down whatever sort of road that they want to go along next. In addition to that, we could also see some of the other new students including Marley (Melissa Benoist) wrap things up at the school.
With this being said, we would personally be surprised to see the show lasting beyond a season 7, if for no other reason than that after this time, it starts to get really expensive to pay all of the actors and crew members once raises come into effect. “Glee” may be a very lucrative show thanks to music sales, but it also has a larger cast than almost anything else on network TV.
Just how do you think this show can really last?
Cody
October 26, 2012 @ 12:44 am
I’m one of the biggest Gleeks you’ll ever meet in your life, and personally, I’d like for it to NEVER end, but at some point, you gotta say enough is enough lol. I love Ryan Murphy, but I don’t see this show living past a 6th season. Plus, I feel like 6 is a good number to end it on. If ANYTHING I’ll be okay with 7 seasons…TOPS. No more than that! With as many main characters like Glee has, it is impossible to keep up with everyone. You gotta end it somehow. Besides, Glee really hit a rough patch in Season 3, and I neverrrr want anything like that to happen again because it was a hot damn mess. I didn’t hate it (because I’m majorly bias) but Lord, it was all over the place. Apparently now Ryan knows how to make it work, so I’m going to trust him on it, but four more seasons? I just don’t know….only time will tell I guess. But it that DOES happen, they’re going to just have to DROP some original characters like Quinn, Mercedes, Mike, Puck, etc. because it will be absolutely impossible to incorporate them into the rest of the seasons.
kim
October 26, 2012 @ 12:15 am
No offense to the writers, but they have yet done anything to show that Glee deserves to last for that long. The show is in a rut. That is a fact. It has been in one for a very long time because of the poor writing and bad decision makings from the writers. I love Glee and of course I would want it to last as long as Ryan wants it to. Glee can not last for 4 years because it can’t have an merit to show that it can last. I give Glee one more season, and 2 at the most. So I think season 6 will be the last season of Glee, and like Gossip Girl, it won’t be a full season 6 but a few episodes to wrap everything up.