Sounds like the show is based on his Mr G segments in Summer Heights High.

This is the first I've heard of this show, but I just set my DVR to record the "sneak peak". Heather, your endorsement of a show is a better than any ad that a PR firm could dream up.

It's not that Fox can afford to lose anything with any kind of potential audience appeal, but Rupert Murdoch just loves destroying anything with quality. The only reason Dollhouse got a second season is that anything new that was an hour long would cost more than Whedon's very iffy show.

is truly brilliant. If Glee is even close we're lucky.

I'm a grown woman who sings in an a cappella jazz ensemble, which carries its own form of geekishness.

I am THRILLED about this show. I'd probably watch it even if it was mediocre. As a lifelong musician I know only too well how much of a life saver music can actually be. For some kids who are not athletic, beautiful or honor-roll level academics (none of which I was), music can give such kids an outlet and even an escape from the horrors that high school can be.

I am especially heartened by the timing of this show, coming as it does during an economic downturn when schools across the country are slashing music programs (but not athletics, of course) in order to cut costs. In reality, these schools are cutting all kids off from the values of a musical education (music education is proven to improve learning across many academic disciplines) but in particular hurting those kids who can't be The Jock or the Cheerleader or the Honor Roll Society member.

I hope this show is given a chance and lasts long enough to make people take a second look at music programs in schools.

This one looks great. I'm very excited to see a show that puts school music at it's core, being a music teacher myself! (not choral, I'm a band director but music is music). I hope the ratings rock and that the show continues to impress next fall. Every review I've read is stellar--and we downloaded the 2.5 minute preview from iTunes and have watched it repeatedly. (it's the show choir doing "Rehab" and it is absolutely fabulous)

If it's half as good as expected it looks like a real treat.

This looks very funny, though I can't imagine any choir director measuring up to Mister G of Summer Heights High or Corky St. Clair of Waiting for Guffman.

What percentage of the population has not grown up enough to understand high school is a phase of life.....not it's definition?

Faux TV, by the time we hear of a new series it is gone because no one wants to see their drivel.

All of life is dominated by high school. Your disdain for this belief puts you firmly as the student council vice president, pretending to be more intellectual and adult about things, but knowing underneath you're doomed to sell life insurance.

As for me, I'm the closeted nerd who has to tolerate regular beatings and contempt for everything I might think and do. As the student council VP, your predictable response will be a sigh and "Just shut up and go away."

See? I'm a loser in this high school world, but I'm right.

LOL,

I was in your group in HS. "Doomed to sell insurance" - fantastic.

My friends are going to be bummed... They wrote a musical a couple of years ago about Show Choir. In fact, it was called "Show Choir: The Musical." (www.showchoirthemusical.com)

It has drawn some interest and was performed at the Fringe Festival in NYC... but now Fox is stealing their thunder!

What are high-school music departments SUPPOSED to teach? There's more to music (and life) than rock & roll or hip-hop, however much students (and yes, I was one back in the 60s) might want to resist that truth. And it's up to the grownups in charge to expose young people to that truth - that there is great music in every genre: classical, jazz, GAS (Great American Songbook) and, yes, "show" music (which has often been one and the same with GAS).

I didn't take music classes in high school, but I knew kids who did, and the repertoire they were exposed to was awesome; the teachers were first-rate in their knowledge and demanding of excellence from their charges. Our productions of holiday concerts and "operettas" (actually Bway musicals, but that's what the school called them) were well-received by the community at large, not just the captive 'rents.

So yes, I plan to watch and remember.

Osama,

Where are you when we need you?

appears to be Rachel, not the glee club teacher, although even she isn't quite as self indulgent.

This show is adorable. I love it like Twinkies, and I kind of want to snuggle it.

Let's see how fast it gets killed.

Music in high school was, and is, as important as making Kleenex flowers to decorate the gym for the dance. Its only importance is that it offers a small amount of shelter for gay students where they aren't beaten bloody and maimed by jocks.

I went to a highly-esteemed high school in a St. Louis suburb, now of course a barbwired-covered battleground in a declining community. Since I have no talent, I got to see the band nerds and the choir nerds from the outside. They were largely rich, largely artistic, and largely awful.

And to make a TV series about people who are usually the scrapings off the shoes of the jocks is sad. As I said, a six-episode show, and the only way the show will be memorable is if in the sixth and last episode someone commits bloody suicide or starts a Columbine-like massacre.

I stand by my story; sorry about the situation at your school but among the music/arts alumni from my high school (a blue-collar exurb of Chicago) are several steadily-employed professional performers, some teachers, and even a couple of "stars." Which is more than I can say for the ex-jocks, none of whom to my knowledge play in MLB, NFL or NBA.