{"id":491265,"date":"2019-10-15T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=899358"},"modified":"2019-10-15T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:30:38","slug":"grease-spinoff-musical-series-is-in-production-for-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/grease-spinoff-musical-series-is-in-production-for-hbo-max\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grease\u2019 Spinoff Musical Series Is in Production for HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Grease.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/grease\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grease\" data-tag=\"grease\">Grease<\/a>: Rydell High<\/em>, a spinoff musical series from the 1978 original movie <em>Grease<\/em>, has been ordered for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\">HBO<\/a>\u2019s upcoming streaming service, HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGrease<\/em> is an iconic pop-culture phenomenon that works for every generation, and I\u2019m thrilled that our friends at Paramount were excited about the idea of opening up the show and putting it on a larger canvas for a weekly series,\u201d said Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, in a statement. \u201cThis is high school and life in small-town USA told on the scale of a big rock &amp; roll musical. It\u2019s \u2018<em>Grease<\/em> 2.0\u2032 but with the same spirit, energy and excitement you immediately think of when you hear any of these iconic songs. \u2018You\u2019re the One That I Want!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official log line for the show describes it as \u201ca joyous musical series\u201d set around Rydell High in the 1950s \u2014 the setting of the original film \u2014 with a cast that combines characters from the original storyline with a whole host of new ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the peer pressures of high school, the horrors of puberty, and the rollercoaster of life in middle America with a modern sensibility that will bring it to life for today\u2019s musical lovers,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on when the series is expected to premiere.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grease-rydell-high-spinoff-series-hbo-899358\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grease: Rydell High, a spinoff musical series from the 1978 original movie Grease, has been ordered for HBO\u2019s upcoming streaming service, HBO Max. \u201cGrease is an iconic pop-culture phenomenon that works for every generation, and I\u2019m thrilled that our friends at Paramount were excited about the idea of opening up the show and putting it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 00:56:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}