*****
*****

Were you able to find out why Glee is casting miniature versions of Puck, Santana, Rachel, Brittany, and Mercedes? Are they doing a flashback? —
Nope. It’s a fantasy sequence. Or nightmare sequence if Sue’s the one doing the dreaming.

You must give us some scoop on whether Darren Criss will be playing Kurt’s new love interest on Glee! —
That’s still TBD. All I know for certain is that they’ll be good friends.

College applications are getting me down. Any news on Darren Criss’ Glee character to remotivate me? Is it too much to hope that he’ll be singing one of his own songs? —
Sorry to add to your doldrums, but I do believe it’s too much to hope. But let me get confirmation of that from Criss himself. “Well, it really isn’t up to me,” shrugs the up-and-comer. “But even if it was, and as cool as that would be—personally, for me as an artist—I think it’s important to keep a bit of separation from the actors’ realities and the characters’ realities. For example, as much as I would love to geek out over Matthew Morrison singing “Passeggiata” from Light in the Piazza—or any of the Spring Awakening-turned-Glee kids doing a number from that show—it probably would shake the audience out of the world of McKinley High, or at least the Broadway fans of the show anyway. But hey, what’s best for the show is best for the show, and I trust the creators in their choice of music. If the time was right, and they ever approached me to have one of my songs used in the show, of course, I’d be absolutely thrilled.” Talented, pretty, and eloquent? Bitch.

HALLOWEEN IS SPOOK-TACULARLY FUNNY WITH TWO NIGHTS OF THRILLS ON FOX

Special “Rocky Horror”-Themed Episode of GLEE and Eerie One-Hour RAISING HOPE Cast Their Spell on Tuesday, October 26

GLEE (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – “The Rocky Horror Glee Show”
Will (Matthew Morrison) decides to have the glee club perform “The Rocky Horror Show” for the annual school musical after learning of Emma’s (Jayma Mays) newfound love for the cult classic. Despite Sue’s (Jane Lynch) usual scheming, the members of New Directions inject their distinctive style to such timeless tracks as “The Time Warp” and “Damn It, Janet.”

*****

*****
Episode six: Lea, Dianna, Heather, and Naya will blow you away.
-their outfits and dance moves to a certain Bon jovi song are just wow.
-all I can say is it was a Bon jovi song :)
-All girls number also featuring Jenna and Amber.

Episode seven: Puck and Artie sing "One Love" by Bob Marley. Puck will take people's lunch money. Darren Criss and his crew will sing the Katy Perry song "Teenage Dream" to Kurt.

Guesses for the BJ song?

EDIT: Ryan Murphy said there would be an episode coming up where the girls do numbers by boy bands and the guys do numbers by girl bands... think this is it?

Will Jonathan Groff be back?
Jon Groff is definitely coming back next year. Next calendar year. He's not available until January, but he'll be in the back [nine] episodes of this season.

Will John Stamos become a regular?
We haven't made any decisions about John yet, but we love him! I think he's been incredible so far on the show. And really funny.

Is it true you've narrowed the big Super Bowl episode down to two choices?
No, I still haven't figured out who I want to do. I feel like everyone's already talking about Michael Jackson or Springsteen or Prince, but I want to do something that no one would suspect. Just some random person, I don't know. I have a couple feelers out to several artists, all of whom have said yes—which I never expected, so now I have to choose, and I don't know who I want.

Thanks for the "good news" on Will and Emma, and their quadrangle with Gwyneth Paltrow. Will there be any Coldplay in the Gwyneth episode? I know they originally passed, but then gave you guys music clearance.
No, I'm having her do other stuff. We'd thought about that but I'm going to save them for a big competition episode. I don't know when, maybe not even this year. I love them.

There were rumors going around that Matthew Morrison was going to shave his head for the Britney Spears episode. Was that ever true?
Out of respect to her, to Britney, we decided we're just going to make this about the music and not talk about anything else. I wanted it to be positive. That was never seriously going to happen, it was just an idea—it was discussed as one of many things to do because she's had many pop culture events, but it was quickly discarded. None of us really felt it was appropriate.

How about something juicy on Finn and Rachel?
Nothing really new on the Rachel-Finn front...Although I will tell you there is trouble ahead when Rachel plays spin the bottle!

*****
*****
*****

*****
Finn's look started out "pretty bland, like the nerdy character Brad is," says costume designer Lou Eyrich. But once Cory Monteith put on the black-rimmed glasses and got a side part in his hair, he transformed. "Cory's just a big goofy nerd and so is Brad," says Colfer. "He was perfect."
*****
When Puck drops out of the production, John Stamos' Dr. Carl fills in — crashing his motorcycle through a stage wall. Since it's difficult to imagine hunky John mimicking a role played in the film by Meat Loaf, Carl does "his own sexy version of Eddie to intimidate Will [Matthew Morrison]," says Eyrich. "It was actually John's idea to do a take-off on Elvis' leather-suit look from his 1968 TV special."
*****
"Here, Quinn [Dianna Agron] is one of the partygoers for our big 'Time Warp' dance scene," says Eyrich. "When the hairstylists told us they wanted to give Dianna a pink wig, we gave her a pink top and glittery hat. To make it more youthful, we used a high-waisted pant from H&M and a gold cummerbund." Quinn does double duty in the production, joining Santana (Naya Rivera) as dual versions of kinky-wigged domestic Magenta.
*****
"At first, Sam [Chord Overstreet] is wearing tiny little gold shorts, but then they decide that's maybe not appropriate for a school play, so he ends up in these gold board shorts and tank top," explains Eyrich. Overstreet was shocked when he saw what little he'd be wearing. "He was a really good sport but hit the gym extra hard," adds Eyrich. But Colfer has no sympathy: "Ha! Take that, new guy!" Glee Rocky Horror Picture Show
*****
"Riff Raff is the best character, and everyone was amazed at how incredible the makeup was," says Colfer. "I was mistaken for a blonde woman a couple times. All I kept thinking was, 'You did this to yourself, Chris.'"

In light of the recent slew of gay teen suicides, producer Ryan Murphy wants to address the issue on Glee in some way.

“Ryan wants to do an episode about it, which I think is very smart of him,” says Matthew Morrison (Will). “As a cast I don’t know much we can do. That’s why I think an episode would be great… Ryan is very current with staying on the times, so I think it would be this season if it were to happen.”

YES! Jonathan Groff aka Jesse St. James is making a comeback!

Spoilersguide reports:

Jonathan Groff will be reassuming his role as Rachel’s betraying beau, Jesse St. James – but since Groff isn’t available until January of 2011, he won’t be making his reappearance until the back nine episodes. Hey, no complaining here. He’s worth the wait.

'Glee'-fully Disappointing

The Ryan Murphy-created high school musical has turned into the cultural phenomenon FOX hoped it would. Ratings are soaring and so are soundtrack sales (the show recently besting a record held by the Beatles for the most songs on the Billboard Hot 100 by a non-solo act), but critics have been harsher to the show in its second season. In a rant titled, "Why I Loathe 'Glee,'" Jace Lacob wrote in the Daily Beast that the show's new characters are severely stereotyped and that Sue Sylvester has lost her bite. "Instead of illustrating the unspoken and inner desires or fears of the characters," he writes, "the songs here seem like coldly calculated viral videos, designed to rapidly spread across the Internet."

Where is Mark Salling? Is he gone permanently? Is it due to his release of a non-Glee album? You have to know something about this, right?!
Puck up, Missy! Though I dunno whether his absence is a side effect of his decision work on music that isn’t in the genre of R&Glee, I do know that it’s only temporary. He’ll miss one more episode—the Oct. 26 Rocky Horror Picture Show tribute—but will be back on air in a big way in early November

Season’s greetings! Will there be a Christmas Glee episode?
Can’t confirm a Christmas episode. I can tell you that something big happens around the holidays, and it may or may not involve a wedding.

Sounds like the ever-socially conscious Glee is taking on the hot button issue of the day: bullying in schools.

For an upcoming episode, the Fox series will be casting a she-bully named Crystal. I hear the casting folks over there are looking for an extra large (i.e. "big boned"), intimidating girl to terrorize an unfortunate someone. The role is open to all ethnicities but the actress must be filled with attitude.

Mark Salling was conspicuously missing from Glee Oct. 12 — they shipped him off to ‘juvenile hall’ — and HollywoodLife.com has learned why he’s gone, and why he might not come back.

McKinley High School’s bad boy Puck (played by Mark Salling), was banished to juvenile hall in the first scene of the Oct. 12 episode of Glee — and it looks like neither Puck nor Mark will be on the show for the foreseeable future. A source on the set tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively why Mark, 28, is out.

We’re told that Mark may have breached his contract by pursuing his own music career too aggressively. “Mark has been really focused on his own music and it’s actually gotten in the way of his Glee stuff,” our insider explains.

Mark has been very public about his rock-jazz fusion band, Jericho, which has released two albums, Smoke Signals in 2008 and Pipe Dreams just this month. According to our source, Glee execs are unhappy about Mark putting his music before the TV show — and were willing to axe his character to lay down the law.

Mark doesn’t appear to care. “His band means the world to him and he thinks that’s more important than the show at this point,” the source tells us, adding, “He’s young — and I think his team is giving him bad advice.”

We’re torn on the issue — as much as we love Mark’s commitment to Jericho, we want Puck back on our TVs every Tuesday night!

Is Mark Salling being punished by Gleemaster Ryan Murphy & Co. for pursuing a solo'ish career?

According to Hollywood Life, Glee's resident bad boy may have breached his contract with Fox by making his own album and is supposedly putting his band before his cast.

Well, here's the real deal straight from an on-set source, because—spoiler alert—you won't see Mark in next week's episode either:

Our source adamantly says Mark's absence from the show does not have anything to do with his album. Anyone notice Jayma Mays gone last night too? And no one's making a fuss over that.

"Mark would never prioritize anything over the show, he respects the executives and his cast too much to do that," spills our Glee insider.

"People forget that he's been doing music for almost a decade before Glee," adds our source. "He just has a target on his back because he's the first of the cast to do a solo album."

Which, by the way, we hear the cast is totally supportive of.

"A lot of the cast are planning solo albums as well, they are celebrating Mark's release, not creating drama out of it," 'fesses Deep Gleek.

And if you remember, Glee fans, Dianna Agron was absent from a few episodes in the first season when she was pursuing her movie career, so this isn't all that strange.

So never fear, Puck lovers, we're told hottie Mark will be back steaming up the small screen ASAP.

"He's still a series regular," adds our studio insider. "Mark will be back soon, Mohawk in full force, with a major bad boy comeback."

Fewf! Matthew Morrison can't carry all the hotness on his pretty face alone.

Are your Gleek hearts calm yet?

*****

Will decides to have the glee club perform “The Rocky Horror Show” for the annual school musical after learning of Emma’s newfound love for the cult classic. Despite Sue’s usual scheming, the members of New Directions inject their distinctive style to the show’s timeless tracks in the all-new “The Rocky Horror Glee Show” episode of GLEE airing Tuesday, Oct. 26

Cast: Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester; Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester; Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester; Lea Michele as Rachel Berry; Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson; Jayma Mays as Emma Pillsbury; Dianna Agron as Quinn; Chris Colfer as Kurt; Kevin McHale as Artie; Amber Riley as Mercedes; Mark Salling as Puck; Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina; Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez; Heather Morris as Brittany; Mike O’Malley as Burt Hummel

It looks like April Rhodes will not be returning to GLEE as soon as we all woud like after all. Broadway's Kristin Chenoweth, who should have began filming for her next appearance in the Fox hit this week, will not be shooting for the show until the spring.

Though GLEE fans will have to wait considerably longer to catch Chenoweth in the show, it might be well worth the wait. Ryan Murphy is currently in talks with Chenoweth to turn her original single episode into a multi-episode arc.

*****