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Lea, Chris & Cory are no longer leaving Glee

Cancel everything you've read on Lea Michelle, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith leaving Glee.... Minor spoilers. Major confusion.

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Minor Spoilers: They’re in… they’re out…. they’re leaving.. .they’re staying.

Cancel everything you’ve read on Lea Michelle, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith leaving Glee.

They aren’t anymore.

In the continually evolving story about Glee casting-moves, it seems they will graduate, but not leave the show.

At Comic-Con on the weekend co-creator and executive producer Brad Falchuk said: “They are not done with the show after this season.

“Because they’re graduating doesn’t mean they’re leaving the show. If you have Lea Michele under contract, you don’t just say, ‘We’re going to let you go.’ ”

Falchuk noted that there are a number of Glee kids, with some seniors and some juniors – like Jenna Ushkowitz – and a “number of original people are not graduating.”

But in an update to Chord Overstreet’s stay, Falchuk said he was offered a deal to return for 10 episodes with the possibility of becoming a series regular, but declined in favor of other opportunities.

That will leave a romance between Sam and Mercedes, teased in the season finale, unresolved.

Falchuk also said Season 3 will be split into two semesters: fall and spring.

Source: Hollywood Reporter, EW

13 Responses

  1. If the 3 actors signed the standard 5 or 6 season contract, they’re all going to be leaving after that, as Glee is a more exhausting show to make, with singing, dancing and music rehearsals needed.

  2. It is basically the same case with Degrassi: The Next Generation in which some characters remain on the show after they have graduated from the title school.

  3. @J Bar. You get red herrings and unmade ideas from the back of writers’ and producers’ heads randomly leaked or stated publicly. It’s impossible to tell the wheat from the chaff with any show Murphy is involved with.

  4. soo.. it was all just a publicity stunt. they couldn’t have phrased themselves that way the first time the reports came out.

    this will probably turn out like desperate housewives where Andrew, Julie and Danielle all “left the show” when they got older but with the amout of returns they have made if you never read those reports and watched the show u’d barely realise they were supposed to be gone.

  7. @Madame Tango – no you weren’t lol
    I do wonder how they’re going to keep the characters, even after they graduate. I can’t see Rachel giving up her dreams of New York…

  8. Lame.

    Rachel and Kurt may be the two “stars” of the show (at least judging from all the press their characters and the actors who portray the characters receive), but it will be ridiculous if they all end up repeating a year or signing on as teaching assistants to Mr Shue.

    If they want to keep writing for Rachel and Kurt, then spin them off into their own series about scoring a role on Broadway in New York. That makes much more sense for the characters instead of them remaining at high school and/or in their small town.

    Not fussed about Sam. I never really understood the appeal. He scared me almost as much as Lisa Rinna. They’re like some sort of sleeper agents for a race of fish-lipped aliens.

  9. Hmm…. Did the producers get scared? Most U.S teen shows don’t really work once characters graduate, Dawson’s Creek for example.

  13. Friday Night Lights graduated several characters early at the end of season two and three, and that show went from strength to strength! Season Four and Five were fresh and quality as a result.

    I reckon keeping Finn, Rachel and Kurt around will hurt the show in the long run. How many times can they reshash Rachel/Finn/Quinn triangle?

    Also not fussed on Chord Overstreet leaving the show, Blaine is a much better character – especially when it comes to the songs they sing.

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