Ryan Murphy stumbled on to a winning formula with Glee. He succeeded where other TV musical series failed like Hotel Babylon or Cop Rock. It may be because his deft mix of teen dramedy and contemporary songs reinterpreted as glee club numbers is just too catchy to ignore. With a runaway success like Glee expect copycats to emerge. One copycat series is set to debut next … [Read more...]
NBC Snags Spielberg Musical
Now that Glee has proven that there's room on the small screen for musicals, it's inevitable that more song-and-dance series will make their way to television screens. But I don't think anyone expected Steven Spielberg to be behind the next one. Spielberg has just sold a musical idea to NBC called Smash, which follows a group of characters as they put together a Broadway … [Read more...]