Yesterday we told you how Ricky Martin was in talks with Glee bosses about guest starring as McKinley’s new Spanish teacher, and according to reports, music legend Gloria Estefan is rumored to be set to guest star on the show in an upcoming episode set to air in January.
Estefan is currently in negotiations to play none other than the mother of Santana Lopez. No doubt this news will please fans eager to meet Santana’s parents and see how they deal with her recent revelation regarding her sexuality.
The singing sensation took to Twitter earlier today, hinting truth to the circulating reports. She tweeted:
Hey M’Tweets! Did anyone else see Glee last night? Santana could really use a sympathetic mommy right about now, don’t you think?? Lol!
What do you think of Gloria playing Santana’s mother?
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He’s baaack! Cory Monteith went to the recording studio today to record some songs for an upcoming episode, and he was greeted by a familiar face, non other than Trouty Mouth himself, Chord Overstreet! He tweeted the photo on the left, welcoming the star back.
As we previously posted, Michael Ausiello of TV Line recently reported that Sam will be back in December, just in time for Sectionals!
Are you excited for Trouty Mouth’s return and his upcoming song!? We definitely are!
According to a tweet from music producer Alex Anders, The Glee Project winner Linsday Pearce hit the studio earlier today to record a song for Glee. We currently do not know what character Lindsay will portray for her two episode arc on the show. Her good friend and fellow Glee Project winner, Damian McGinty, was also recently in the studio.
The first of The Glee Project winners to appear on Glee, Damian McGinty hit the studio today with director, Adam Shankman and music producer Alex Anders, who earlier tweeted this picture of the Irish singer.
Damian is set to play an exchange student named Rory, who moves in with Brittany’s family in episode 4, entitled ‘Pot O’ Gold’.
Any guesses as to what song the glee club will have Rory audition with?
Tomorrow night Lea Michele, who plays Rachel Berry, will be singing Christina Perri’s “Jar Of Hearts” in the Glee episode, “Prom Queen.” The song is from Christina’s debut album Lovestrong. which is coming out tomorrow as well!
Come to find out Christina is a big Gleek herself, so we’re running a Twitter contest for you to win a signed CD from her. All you have to do to enter is Retweet this Tweet from my Twitter account, @GleekRob!
Good luck, and remember to tune in to hear Lea Michele sing Christina Perri’s “Jar of Hearts” tomorrow night!
A new article from E! Online has surfaced all about the character twitters from Glee and other shows! I’ve always wondered who posts those HILARIOUS @S_SylvesterGLEE gems. Turns out there is an entire industry devoted to providing authentic updates from the voices of TV characters. Dream job? Check!
The show The Office has a few characters with Twitter accounts. So does Glee and Heroes. Is it the actors doing those updates in character?
—Ehren, via Facebook
As much as I would love to believe that a robot from Caprica is available to answer all my questions about The Future in an alternate universe, no. There’s a real person behind Serge—someone who, I am scandalized to report, has never lived on Caprica and who has, probably, never met the Graystones, much less an Adama.
So might that person even possibly be Eric Stoltz? Well…
…probably not.
There’s an actual industry out there devoted, in large part, to blogging, MySpacing, Facebooking and tweeting in the voice of your favorite TV characters. (Heroes‘ Hiro Nakamura is over on the Yamagato Fellowship page, updating us on his trips back in time.)
The practice usually falls under the marketing campaign for a TV show or movie. To get that ball rolling, the movie studio or production house usually hires an outside company specializing in social media marketing. That company, in turn, may hire freelance writers, or use its own in-house people to channel the character in question.
Some characters’ tweets are quite responsive, but other updates can take weeks or even months of planning and approval from several parties, including the social media marketing company, the network and the individual show or movie producers.
In other words, it might be more complicated than you think to write like Rachel from Glee. It also may explain why Rachel from Glee has had relatively few Twitter updates.
So does it pay to tweet like an imaginary person?
Perhaps. Writers may charge a day rate of a few hundred bucks, we’re told by sources familiar with these sorts of deals, or get a couple hundred per post, depending on the gig.
No word on the going rate for Twitter updates on Caprica.
… and this is why we love them. XD
Thanks to Cory Montieth (@frankenteen) for tweeting this with twitvid!
Update: Here’s another of them walking in slow motion. This time, they’re in costume. Pay special attention to what Amber and Chris are wearing… spoiler! Edit: It looks like Cory already deleted his tweet for the video, but hasn’t deleted it from twitvid yet. I bet someone gets in trouble for this! (Good thing I downloaded a copy of the video already! Hehe…)
Another Tweet-peat next week! Check out Fox’s Glee page for all the details!
Update: If you’re a fan of Glee on Facebook, check out these pics (and more) and this short video of the cast and crew getting ready for the east coast tweet-peat! Also, there are these two vids (beginning & end) for the west coast.
Are you excited for repeats of Glee on Fox? Well you should be! Fox has teamed up with Twitter and announced that repeats of episodes of Glee and Fringe are now “Tweet-peats”. During the re-run episodes, live Twitter feeds from the cast and crew will scroll across the bottom of the screen. Also, you can follow the Twitter feeds online and even tweet the cast live!
For Glee, the first Tweet-peat will be on Friday, Sept. 4th at 9/8c pm. They will re-air the pilot (with the extended pilot airing 2 days prior on Wednesday, Sept. 2nd) and some members of the cast will be tweeting along with behind the scenes info and maybe even a couple mini-spoilers. ;)
The east and west coast airings will have different tweeters, while the “heartland” will have the east coast tweets. The west coast airing will be tweeted by Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer and Amber Riley, and the east coast airing will be tweeted by Lea Michele, Kevin McHale and Mark Salling.
This new spin on repeats sounds pretty fun! Sound off with your opinion in the comments section below.
Since nearly everybody has a Twitter these days, I thought it would be fun to post the Twitter accounts of some of Glee’s cast and crew. Make sure to follow them!
Yesterday we told you how Ricky Martin was in talks with Glee bosses about guest starring as McKinley’s new Spanish teacher, and according to reports, music legend Gloria Estefan is rumored to be set to guest star on the show in an upcoming episode set to air in January.
If you want to win an autographed The Glee Project photo, read on! I was fortunate enough to receive a Glee Project photograph signed by The Glee Project winners Lindsay Pearce and Samuel Larsen along with contestant Hannah McIalwain, and I am giving it away to one of you lucky readers!
Hey, Gleeks! Want to win a signed CD?
