Not sure how many of you are "Glee" fans, but the producers held online auditions last year through MySpace (strange choice) and then eventually chose 12 people from these auditions to compete on a reality TV show called "The Glee Project". The winners of the reality competition won 7-episode arcs on the show, which is a big deal given the popularity of "Glee". I just thought this was a great move on the part of the Ryan Murphy and the other producers. Not only did it open up casting to regular teenage kids instead of trained actors, but now the two new characters already have a built-in fan base from the reality show. Pretty brilliant.
Here is a link from last year about how it all worked: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/03/glee-auditions-how-to-submit-myspace-song-list-rules.html
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There is an interesting reason why this was done on MySpace. MySpace was owned by News Corp. (the parent company of Fox) at the time of the promotion. So my guess is that this event was a promotional activity for MySpace (which was dying) more than for Glee.
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