Justin Gaston In The Show Glee

April 21, 2009 | by Disney Dreaming

Late last month the pilot episode for the show Glee aired, and low and behold Miley Cyrus’ boyfriend Justin Gaston has a role in it! Justin plays a character who is on the football team, but it doesn’t sound like he talks too much in the show – they basically just have them there for eye-candy.

The show aired on Fox and was created by Ryan Murphy, the creator of the show Nip/Tuck, and the show was written by Murphy, Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk.

Net is fast-tracking the project — which revolves around the world of high school glee clubs — and has ordered four additional scripts beyond the pilot. If all goes as planned, Fox hopes to have the show on the air by March, as a potential companion to “American Idol.”

The show Glee takes place in the Midwest and centers on the character Will who is a Spanish teacher who is called upon to coach the glee club at the high school he works at. Meaning that the characters on the show are both straight as well as gay.

Oh yea, and it’s a musical show. There are said to be at least four songs per episode. Fox is doing this because they have had such good luck with the show American Idol and they hope to pull in viewers from the audience of Idol who enjoys singing. And just like Idol, all the songs are well known songs that have not been written special for the show because “people like to see people singing songs they know.”

Murphy says of the show, “It’s a 9 p.m. show, it’s not designed for 8. But it is designed for families to watch together. It’s sweet, but it will appeal to both kids and adults, it’s written for both of them. There’s so much on the air right now about people with guns, or sci-fi, or lawyers running around. This is a different genre, there’s nothing like it on the air at the networks and cable. Everything’s so dark in the world right now, that’s why ‘Idol’ worked. It’s pure escapism.”

Do you think this show will be picked up or will it bomb?