[UPDATED] 'Glee': A full-season order is on the way

Time to break out into song, "Glee" fans! Sources tell us that the musical comedy is about to become the first show this fall to get a full-season order. 

[Update 1:48 p.m.: Fox has made it official. "Glee" has received an order for a full season. In a statement, series creator Ryan Murphy said. "It's fantastic to be the first show picked up, and that this underdog series, like its characters, will get the chance to keep singing. There are so many more stories to tell." Fox President of Entertainment Kevin Reilly added that the response to "Glee" has been "remarkable." "I've seen all 13 episodes and ... they've knocked our socks off."]

News was augmented by a hopeful tweet from "Glee" executive producer Dante Di Loreto, who wrote on his Twitter feed this morning: "thank YOU!! To everyone who has been watching and supporting the show, we have some GREAT news coming soon!!" 

Conspicuously, that tweet has been removed, but the good news remains, insiders say. 

Fox is expected to pick up the back nine episodes of the Ryan Murphy-created show today. 

"Glee" premiered to Fox's highest numbers for a new scripted show in three years. A total 7.3 million viewers watched the first episode, which won its Wednesday time slot in the adults 18-49 demographic, and notched an impressing 3.5 rating. 

-- Denise Martin

Photo credit: Fox

Comments

[Jenna]

Hooray!

And now that I'm hooked and enthusiastic about this great show, it's going to die the way Pushing Daisies died last spring. The networks don't seem to know what quality shows look like anymore.

[Tippyzzz]

This is the best new show!!!! It's so much fun!

[Dumbfounded]

I don't get these network execs. This show is awful. And too long at one hour. It makes no sense to have these kids lip sync to a fully orchestrated soundtrack and have no musicians on camera except for a sole piano. The songs are pathetic. This show had so much promise (and advertising hype) that I was hoping it would showcase musical theater or at least voice. Instead there is very little singing, what is sung is lip sync'd and makes very little sense to the story line.

[Emily]

The Sept. 16th airing of "Glee " lost 850,000 viewers!

In one week "Glee" loses 850,000 viewers and gets a full season order.

"Glee" is just like the execs at FOX...they both "fail"...upwards.

I guarantee that this Wednesday...September 23rd..."Glee" will lose even more viewers...in the hundreds of thousands...as well as demo.

By the last week of October "Glee" will have viewers in the 4 millions and a demo in the 2's.

FOX execs:

1- renewed ratings mega loser "Dollhouse"
2- ordered the series "Brothers" ...a sitcom that stars Michael Strahan, a former football player with a ZERO acting or stand-up comedy background...the only thing worse then the writing and show concept may be Strahan's razor thin comedic skills.
3- Developed a "Glee" a High School Musical ripoff...instead of giving FOX the next "House", "24" or "American Idol"

In regards to ancillary income from "Glee"...-as per music mogul Irv Azoff, manager of The Eagles, etc...."iTunes income is penny's on the dollar and amounts to chump change".

Peter Rice is months away from cleaning house! The last act of the current desperate regime is ordering a full season of "Flee"...uhh..."Glee".

See ya' on the way down...