TCA: "Glee" Spin-off Officially Dead
1/8/2012
by Lesley Goldberg


FOX's buzzed-about "Glee" spin-off is officially dead.

"There will not be a 'Glee' spinoff," FOX Entertainment topper Kevin Reilly told reporters Sunday at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour in Pasadena.



With Season 3 leading up to a graduation for "Glee's" core trio of Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith,Reilly said the characters "will graduate" and that has led to an "interesting idea that I think is going to give us something cool to dig into for next season."





Noting that Michele (Rachel) would be back for next season, Reilly told reporters after the executive session that the network would have to look at the cast's contractual issues but reaffirmed that "creatively, we'd want to see them all back" when asked if Colfer would be among the characters returning.

Asked if it's possible to have a show within a show, Reilly told reporters that he's "eluding to some version of that," and that the spring batch of the episodes would set up the plan for next season.

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