Remainder of GLEE's Current Season to be Set in New York City

GLEE is officially settling down in Manhattan.

According to Entertainment Weekly, FOX chairman Kevin Reilly confirmed today at the TCA event that the remainder of the series' current season will exclusively be set in New York City, leaving McKinley High behind.

"Some are going to be graduating and moving; creatively, it would be ridiculous that everybody moves to New York," he said. "There will be some that will graduate and move on and they'll arc back in when we do special episodes. They'll always be a part of it... But for this season, there will be a graduation, several of the cast members will move on and a few others will go to New York."

Reilly also confirmed that the sixth season of Ryan Murphy's hit dramedy will be its last.

Glee is a musical comedy about a group of ambitious and talented kids who escape the harsh realities of high school by joining a Glee club, where they find strength, acceptance and, ultimately, their voice. Last year's graduates and aspiring singers, RACHEL BERRY (Lea Michelle) and KURT HUMMEL (Chris Colfer), packed their bags for New York and enrolled at a prestigious performing arts school, NYADA, where they made new friends and learned the cruel realities of college. These naïve freshmen moved into a Brooklyn loft, signed up for internships, auditioned for Broadway shows and gained a roommate when SANTAna Lopez (Naya Rivera) moved to the Big Apple.

ince its debut, Glee has become a bona fide cultural phenomenon, received prestigious honors, including a Golden Globe Award and a Peabody Award, and singlehandedly made Glee clubs cool again. The series boasts critical acclaim, a die-hard fan base, two Grammy Award nominations, two platinum and five gold albums, more than 43 million songs and more than 13 million albums sold worldwide, two sold-out concert tours, a 3-D movie and four Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes, including the award for Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical.

Glee has attracted A-list guest stars, from Gwyneth Paltrow to Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker. This season, Demi Lovato (THE X FACTOR) guest-stars as "Dani," a New York-based struggling artist and friend of Rachel and Santana's.

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