Glee Creator Reveals What’s Happening With the Show, and Cory Monteith’s Character Finn

The show will go on. 

That’s the message from Glee creator Ryan Murphy, one week after news broke of the sad death of Cory Monteith.

Murphy has revealed that Monteith’s character Finn Hudson will be killed off in the third episode of the upcoming fifth series. 

Followning that tribute episode, the show will go on hiatus while the makers decide on the best way to continue. 

Murphy also said that in the end, it was Monteith’s girlfriend and co-star Lea Michele who made the call.

He said:"Ultimately the person who made the decision was Lea, who felt that the best thing for the cast and crew was to be together and to get back to work and be together every day and talk about our memories of him. So we decided to do that with Lea's blessing and we're going to go back to work and have grief counselors on the set for two weeks because people are really hurting."

"If Lea had said to me, 'I could never do this again and I don't want to do this again,' you know, she is sort of the show, so what do you do? And I would've, out of respect to her as a person, said 'OK,' but that's not how Lea operates; that's not how she feels. She's handled this with so much humanity and grace and she's also handled this in a way where she's trying to look out for 500 other people affected by him and who have mortgages to pay and families to feed … I've never met any 26-year-old person stronger than Lea. She's really been the leader in this situation." 

Glee creator Ryan Murphy with his star Lea Michele

Speaking to Deadline, Murphy said: "We will begin shooting in late August the two shows we had already written, so that people can physically go back to work." 

"We will then do an episode that will deal with the death of Finn's character and follow that with a long hiatus. I don't know exactly when we will come back."