On April 19, 2013, Fox renewed
Glee for a fifth and a sixth season, as part of a two-season renewal deal for the show.
Ryan Murphy subsequently announced that season six would be the series' final season, that it wouldn't be New York-centric like the end of the fifth season, that there will be a time jump between the season five finale and the season six premiere, and that during the final season the show would revisit the younger McKinley High students who did not graduate in the fifth season. Season six premiered on January 9, 2015, as part of the
2014–15 television season. The 13 episodes were broadcast consecutively on Fridays at 9:00 p.m. (ET), with the beginning and ending double episodes starting an hour earlier. Executive Music Producer
Adam Anders began working on the music for the season on July 16, 2014, and on August 25 his brother Alex Anders was in the studio with
Darren Criss doing the show's first cast member recording session of the season. The season's first day of filming was September 3, 2014, which was revealed that day by co-executive producer
Michael Hitchcock with a "Back to school" tweet accompanied by a photo of a first-episode call sheet;
Lea Michele posted a picture of herself from the set that same day. Filming concluded on February 21, 2015. The final season follows former New Directions lead singer and Broadway star
Rachel Berry (Michele) as she returns to Lima to relaunch the New Directions. which took place in the sixth episode. On December 6, 2014, the EPs for the first two episodes of the season were posted on Amazon over a month before their scheduled release, including the episodes' titles "Loser Like Me" and "Homecoming". "Loser Like Me" included the songs "
Uninvited", "Suddenly Seymour", "
Sing", "Dance the Night Away" and "
Let It Go". "Homecoming" included the songs "Take On Me", "Tightrope", "Mustang Sally", "Home" and "Problem". The EP for the third episode was posted on December 13, 2014, including the episode title "Jagged Little Tapestry". The episode included the songs "It's Too Late", "So Far Away", and three mash-ups: "Hand In My Pocket / I Feel the Earth Move", "
Will You Love Me Tomorrow / Head Over Feet", and "You Learn / You've Got a Friend". ==Cast==