Ryan Murphy Says He’s Open to a Glee Revival
During a red carpet chat, Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy spelt out what would make him seriously consider bringing the show back.
If you thought Glee was dead and buried, think again. Ryan Murphy has just started poking that particular beehive again, and fans are already buzzing. No official reboot yet, but by the sound of it, he can hardly resist the itch himself.
‘Maybe we should revisit that’
Murphy popped up at the red carpet premiere for his latest TV gamble, The Shards, in New York on 27 July — ostensibly to talk about that show, but naturally everyone wanted to hear about a possible return for his biggest mainstream hit.
He didn’t play coy about it, either. Speaking to People, Murphy got (predictably) nostalgic about Glee, and then outright mused about whether it’s time to bring it back. He pointed out how Gen-Z, who were barely out of nappies when Glee first aired in 2009, are now discovering the series in droves.
Here’s how Murphy summed up his feelings for the crowd on the carpet:
'That show is interesting because it’s come back around. So many young people now watch it. And I’m like, "Maybe we should revisit that show."'
He went full sentimental and didn’t hide how attached he still is to the thing:
'My nostalgia and love for that show is enough that I’m like, "Well, maybe people would like to see a new incarnation of that in some capacity. So yeah, I love that show and I loved what it became and what it meant to so many people."'
A quick Glee refresher
In case you’ve wiped your telly memory: Glee ran for six seasons between 2009 and 2015 on Fox, with a cast that’s practically a roll call of millennial pop culture. Lea Michele, Cory Monteith (RIP), Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Dianna Agron, and Naya Rivera (also gone far too soon) led the way, alongside Heather Morris, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Darren Criss, Harry Shum Jr., and Mark Salling. Matthew Morrison ran the madhouse as Will Schuester, Jane Lynch was the cartoon-villain-turned-national-treasure, Sue Sylvester.
During its run, Glee racked up six Emmys from a whopping 40 nominations.
The show was never subtle, but it did become a cultural fixture — for better and for worse — and, clearly, Murphy remembers it as fondly as thousands of rewatchers do now.
Meanwhile, back in 2026…
Murphy’s actual day job right now is The Shards, another adaptation (this time of Bret Easton Ellis’s 2023 novel), set in 1980s Los Angeles at a posh prep school. The cast isn’t exactly short on up-and-comers: Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Kaia Gerber, and Evan Rachel Wood. That one lands on FX and Hulu on 5 August, so while he’s busy there for now, don’t bet against him finding some excuse to put teens singing covers back on screen soon enough.