The Glee Project

The Glee Project
Created by	Ryan Murphy
Presented by	Robert Ulrich
Judges	Ryan Murphy Robert Ulrich Zach Woodlee Nikki Anders Ian Brennan
Narrated by	Ian Brennan
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	21 (plus 2 specials)
Production
Executive producers	Michael Davies Shauna Minoprio Ryan Murphy Dante Di Loreto
Producer	Ryan Murphy
Running time	44 minutes
Production companies	Embassy Row Ryan Murphy Productions
Original release
Network	Oxygen
Release	June 12, 2011 (2011-06-12) – August 14, 2012 (2012-08-14)
Related
Glee
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The Glee Project is an American reality television series from Oxygen. It served as an audition for the Fox musical comedy series Glee, and the prize for the winner was a minimum seven-episode arc in the following season of the show. The show's first season premiered in the US on June 12, 2011, and concluded on August 21, 2011. In Canada, the series began airing on Slice on June 26, 2011, and in the UK, the series began airing on Sky 1 on July 14, 2011. A second season aired in the US from June 5 to August 14, 2012. In July 2013, it was announced that The Glee Project would not return for a third season.^[1]

Glee executive producers Ryan Murphy and Dante Di Loreto executive produced for The Glee Project. Glee's casting director, Robert J. Ulrich, was casting director for the project, while Glee's on-screen non-speaking accompanist, Brad Ellis, helping Ulrich coach 80 potential candidates as seen in the music segment of "The Top 12" special that led into the pilot episode of season 1.^[2][3]