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This week saw the second Britney Spears-centric episode of the musical dramedy series GLEE, "Britney 2.0", as well as the second three-hour block of new episodes of the reality singing competition THE X FACTOR, the latter featuring none other than new judge Britney Spears as it continued to offer up even more preliminary auditions as the arbiters hone in on a Top 20 and we gear up for the live shows starting soon. While the theme of Thursday night on Fox may have very well been their $15 million investment given glam, grand primetime treatment as only the network AMERICAN IDOL and GLEE built really could, both shows proved that the pop princess of the 21st century is at the top of the entertainment heap for very good reason, leaving X FACTOR fans, gleeks and entertainment junkies alike left requesting one thing and one thing only by the time 11 o'clock rolled around: "Gimme gimme more."

On tonight's episode of Fox's GLEE titled 'Britney 2.0', Brittany S. Pierce is in a funk and turns to her icon Britney Spears' music for inspiration! Get a first listen to the GLEE cast singing Britney classics below!

On tonight's episode of Fox's GLEE titled 'Britney 2.0', Brittany S. Pierce is in a funk and turns to her icon Britney Spears' music for inspiration! Meanwhile, Rachel struggles to adjust to life in New York, but is helped by her newfound NYADA friend, Brody Weston. The episode airs 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT on FOX. Below, check out photos and full tracks of: 'Hold It Against Me', 'Boys/Boyfriend,' 'Womanizer,' '3,' 'Oops!...I Did It Again,' '(You Drive Me) Crazy,' and 'Gimme More.'

On the Thursday, September 20 episode of Fox's GLEE titled 'Britney 2.0', Brittany S. Pierce is in a funk and turns to her icon Britney Spears' music for inspiration! Get a first listen to the GLEE cast singing Britney classics below!

This week saw the premieres of not one, but two of the biggest entertainment extravaganzas currently on show in the vast TV landscape, both on Fox - the season two debut of the reinvented reboot of the reality singing competition show THE X FACTOR (with Britney Spears and Demi Lovato as new judges), as well as the season four premiere of the returning, albeit re-jiggered, half-NYC-set GLEE (with a memorable Kate Hudson, and, also, Sarah Jessica Parker joining next week). While one may have been more successful than the other in pulling off its grand switcheroo (especially insofar as overall transitional smoothness, THE X FACTOR really seems to be finding its voice, pardon the puns), the sheer enjoyment levels achieved by each was enough to make both recommendable and worthy of review given their intrinsic ties to the performing arts realm and their exploration, exhibition and employment of the titular x factor. Individuals with that oh-so-unmistakable allure were on ample display both on THE X FACTOR and GLEE, making both properties once again worth revisiting each week this year, like last year - look no further than jaw-dropping X FACTOR audition of Carly Rose Sonenclar for clear-cut proof of that. Plus, next week, THE X FACTOR and GLEE shall share a similar theme when GLEE gets 1,2,3 (or, more to the point: 5,6,7,8) with a second Britney Spears tribute, "Britney 2.0"

Check out GLEE's stars arriving on the red carpet for the show's season four premiere screening and VIP reception yesterday, September 12, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood! Scroll below for cast members Lea Michele, Kate Hudson, Matthew Morrison, Darren Criss, Chord Overstreet, Josh Sussman, Heather Morris, Vanessa Lengies, Jenna Ushkowitz, Iqbal Theba, Chris Colfer, Dot Marie Jones and Mark Salling. Plus, new cast members Jacob Artist, Melissa Benoist, Alex Newell and Dean Geyer, and of course, GLEE's creator Ryan Murphy!

FOX's GLEE returns for season four tomorrow, September 13, with an episode titled 'The New Rachel.' Tune in tomorrow night to find out what happened to last year's seniors and meet the new crew at McKinley High. Check out the show's photo countdown below!

McKinley High's New Directions will cover Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' in the fourth season premiere of FOX's GLEE, according to EWonline.

It's back to school for newcomers Dean Geyer and Jacob Artist as they join GLEE when the hit show returns Thursday, Sept. 13 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

It's back to school for newcomers Dean Geyer and Jacob Artist as they join GLEE when the hit show returns Thursday, Sept. 13 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

At the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego, the cast and creative team from the FOX musical drama GLEE took part in a panel discussion on July 14th. The show's co-creator, Ian Brennan chatted with fans about what they can expect on the upcoming fourth season of the show. Check out the event below!

At the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego, the cast and creative team from the FOX musical drama GLEE took part in a panel discussion on July 14th. The panel included cast members Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Darren Criss, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz and Naya Rivera as well as co-creator/executive producer Brad Falchuk. Check out the event below!

TVLine's Michael Ausiello chatted with GLEE's Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Darren Criss, Naya Rivera, Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. The cast spoke about the Season 3 finale and dished about what to expect in the upcoming Season 4. Check out the interview below!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, all fifteen regular cast members of the FOX series GLEE, including Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer and Matthew Morrison will return when the musical series begins its fourth season.

According to a report by Deadline.com, nearly all of GLEE's regular cast members are set to return for Season 4 in some capacity, with Chord Overstreet in talks to become a series regular. Overstreet joined the show in Season 2 in a recurring role, left, then returned halfway through Season 3.

GLEE: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON will be coming to Blu-ray on August 14th. Season Three of the electrifying, award-winning series finds the Gleeks headed for the Nationals - and graduation!

FOX has released a promo for the upcoming fourth season of GLEE. The promo begins, "Graduation's over, but there's so much more in store!" Get a sneak peek at next season below!

The Boss to the Beatles to Madonna to Rod Stewart, GLEE's emotional and invigorating season finale was pretty much everything a gleek could have asked for in a grand send-off to the original crew of McKinley High's New Directions - at least insofar as we have seen them thus far - as the musical dramedy series ends its third season and heads into uncertain new terrain with Season Four and the purportedly revolutionary new dual-show concept GLEE mastermind Ryan Murphy and company plan to incorporate while bringing in guest stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Kate Hudson and THE GLEE PROJECT winners. As seen in "Goodbye", the future looks quite uncertain for many of the McKinley graduates - Rachel (Lea Michele) may have gotten into NYADA at the eleventh hour and arrived on Broadway to fulfill her theatre dreams, but Finn (Cory Monteith) and Kurt did not get into their performing arts academies of their choice. So, what now? So, too, will Quinn (Dianna Agron) assumedly head for the East Coast and Princeton, while Santana (Naya Rivera) will apparently be joining Rachel in New York - but, to do what? The future is evidently more promising for some than for others, but what we will see play out is infuriatingly indeterminable at this stage of the game. Anticipation is building, in any event - and GLEE continues to entice. What's next for the rest of the glee club we will have to wait until next season to witness, but we can rest assured that Blaine (Darren Criss), Sam (Chord Overstreet), Joe (Samuel Larsen), Sugar (Vanessa Lengies) and Artie (Kevin McHale) will be around, with the fates of some of the original glee clubbers who graduated a little less cut and dry as far as their character's trajectories are concerned - particularly Puck (Mark Salling), Mike (Harry Shum, Jr.), Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) and Mercedes (Amber Riley). And, as for Mr. Shu (Matt Morrison), Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), Coach Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones) and Emma (Jayma Mays)? We will definitely be seeing much more of them in September. While we can always rely on GLEE to provide us with outrageous jokes, outlandish characterizations, unexpected dramatic and thematic twists and turns, shockingly touching domestic drama and many incredibly heartwarming moments and socially progressive messages, the music - more importantly, the musical numbers - is what makes GLEE stand out from every other serial television series before or since and why the show will unquestionably be remembered as something revolutionary and indisputably idiosyncratic in the scheme of TV history.

On the edge of glory, GLEE momentarily brought back the ecstatic excitement and indescribably infectious joy which made the musical dramedy series a huge hit in its first and second seasons, then commanding upwards of twelve million viewers a week. Now sixty-plus episodes into the series, in a two-hour episode helmed by co-creator Ian Brennan, last night's two-episode gorge-worthy and gorgeous feast - 'Props' and 'Nationals', by the hour - was a reminder of everything that cynics have cited as lacking from episodes in Season Three, as flagging ratings and a general media lull plagues the once seemingly indomitable mega-show despite its continued inventiveness and dramatic daringness. It was fresh and sassy and outrageous, but touching and heartfelt - attributes ascribed to the best episodes of the show. Yet, it was so much more, too - and then there's the music! Both hours were a totally over-the-top tribute to all things big and wow-worthy, coming at just the right moment to pump some energizing lifeblood into the audience base - passing references to Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Marvin Hamlisch and Elton John as well as multiple winks at DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES songwriter and BAT OUT OF HELL mastermind Jim Steinman collectively pushing the theatre insider reference quotient into the stratosphere; and appreciably so. Yes, indeed, last night's double-dose of GLEE was an OD-worthy escapade worthy of returning to time and time again - Lea Michele's solo spots of Jason Mraz's 'I Won't Give Up' and Celine Dion's Grammy-winning 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' alone were standouts of not only this or any season, but the series itself. With more than fifteen songs performed - everything from Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and The Who to STARLIGHT EXPRESS, TOMMY, FLASHDANCE and KISS ME, KATE - there was something for everyone in the two-hour GLEE extravaganza overflowing with the witty one-liners, out-of-this-world twists, outlandish characterizations, as well as the idiosyncratic theatrical reality that only GLEE can create. It was a true return to form to prove any and all naysayers wrong, and, this, coming after last week's Ryan Murphy-penned 'Prom-asaurus' season highlight, no less.

Tonight, May 15, FOX will air two back-to-back GLEE episodes, entitled 'Props' and 'Nationals'. As the countdown to graduation continues, the kids of New Directions prepare a high-concept routine for Nationals. When Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) bumps her head, the world of New Directions is turned upside down in her eyes. Then, New Directions face off against Wade (Alex Newell) and Vocal Adrenaline at Nationals in Chicago, where they perform in front of celebrity judge Lindsay Lohan (guest-starring as herself).