Ryan Murphy's 'Glee' Reboot Is Officially Happening at Disney+ and Hulu

The original three creators wrote the script, and Murphy says he's been in touch with about 10 original cast members.

Ryan Murphy won his first Emmy for directing the pilot of "Glee," the Fox musical comedy about a high school glee club in Lima, Ohio. Now he's headed back to that choir room. Disney+ and Hulu have given the "Glee" reboot a series order, Deadline reported Wednesday.

The argument Murphy and Disney have made for it isn't nostalgia, exactly. It's the young audience that's found the show since. "So many young people watch it," Murphy told People when his FX drama "The Shards" premiered in July, TVLine reported. Disney backed that up with a streaming number: on Spotify, the show still pulls roughly 4 million listeners a month, the company told Deadline.

The order itself came light on details. No cast has been announced and there's no premiere date, Deadline and TVLine reported, and TheWrap said nothing about the story or production was released either. The studio is the one that made the original, 20th Television, and the old episodes already stream on Hulu.

There is a script. Murphy said in late September that he'd just finished it with Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk, who created the show with him, telling Entertainment Tonight at the "American Horror Story" Season 13 premiere, TheWrap and TVLine reported. TheWrap noted it's still unclear whether the three will run the show themselves or hand it to a new showrunner.

In the same interview, Murphy said he'd "been in touch with around 10 of the original cast members," and that they had plenty of questions but liked the idea, according to TheWrap. No names were announced with the order.

What's being revived is a genuine phenomenon. Fox aired six seasons, from 2009 through 2015, following the New Directions, McKinley High's glee club, through show choir competitions and the social issues around them, with music in every episode. It earned 32 Emmy nominations and won six, and took four Golden Globes from nine nominations, TheWrap tallied. Its covers came out as singles the day after each episode and regularly topped the iTunes charts, and the cast's concert tours were filmed for theaters, TVLine noted.

The club also kept recruiting. Later seasons brought in Melissa Benoist and Alex Newell, and in the final season a then-unknown Finneas O'Connell, Billie Eilish's older brother, briefly sang with New Directions, TVLine pointed out. Murphy's own phrase in July was "a new incarnation," and the order came without a word on which class of McKinley kids it follows.

Some of the first class can't come back. Cory Monteith died in 2013, while the show was still in production, and the series honored him and his character, Finn Hudson, in an episode called "The Quarterback." Mark Salling died in 2018 and Naya Rivera in 2020, TVLine noted.

Chris Colfer, one of the original stars, told Bustle this month that the show was tough to make and would be really hard to do without Rivera, Deadline reported. He also knows his audience. "Glee fans," Colfer told Bustle, "would probably come after me with pitchforks and jazz hands if I said no."

Source: Deadline, retrieved October 21, 2026. Other sources: tvline.com, TheWrap.