Ryan Murphy Signals A ‘Glee’ Comeback Might Actually Be On The Table

Nostalgia for early 2010s television has been quietly building for years, and few shows carry more weight in that conversation than ‘Glee.’ The musical dramedy ran on Fox between 2009 and 2015, turning a fictional Ohio show choir into a cultural phenomenon that dominated pop radio and awards season alike.

Long after its finale, the series has refused to fade quietly into streaming obscurity. If anything, a new generation is discovering William McKinley High School for the first time, and that shift has not gone unnoticed by the man who built it.

Speaking at the New York premiere of his upcoming FX series ‘The Shards,’ co-creator Ryan Murphy addressed the idea of revisiting ‘Glee’ head on. “That show is interesting because it’s come back around,” he said of the younger viewers who’ve come to know ‘Glee’ thanks to streaming, adding, “So many young people now watch it. And I’m like, ‘Maybe we should revisit that show.'”

Murphy did not stop there. He went on to note that his nostalgia and love for the show is enough that he believes people might want to see a new incarnation of it in some capacity, adding that he still loves what the series became and what it meant to so many people. It is not a formal announcement, but it is far from a dismissal either.

This is not the first time Murphy has floated the idea. He previously mused about the possibility of a reboot or even a stage musical version of the show, and ‘Glee’ co-creator Brad Falchuk has echoed the sentiment, noting that there are always fourteen year olds discovering the series and getting hooked. The show’s pull on new audiences has become something of an industry talking point in its own right, with a viral cover of Addison Rae’s ‘Diet Pepsi’ by Ben Platt at the 2025 Las Culturistas Culture Awards sparking a wave of online nostalgia and fueling renewed calls for the series to return, according to Parade.

Part of what makes this moment different is the scale of the show’s original success. ‘Glee’ earned six Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and in 2011 it landed 113 single entries on the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing a record previously held by Elvis Presley. That kind of cultural footprint does not simply disappear, and it helps explain why the show continues to resurface across social media years after it left the air.

Murphy’s latest comments arrive as he prepares to premiere ‘The Shards,’ an FX adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, and it is clear the producer has not fully closed the door on the McKinley High School glee club. Whether that translates into an actual revival, a limited series, or simply more wistful red carpet answers remains to be seen.

For now, fans are left parsing every word for hints of what a ‘Glee’ comeback might even look like. Would you want to see the original cast return, or would you rather ‘Glee’ hand the mic to a brand new generation of underdogs at McKinley High.