I’m really looking forward to what happens next. Unfortunately we have to wait until April 10 for the next episode now. I’m going to post promos as soon as we get them :)

It seems like every few years there’s another epidemic sweeping into the lives of our kids and terrifying parents. A few years ago, we finally got hip to childhood obesity. This past year, it’s been bullying. And no TV show has done more than Glee to put the torture kids across America encounter every day in school right in your face where you can’t deny it.

The only problem? Bullies are getting their start much earlier these days. And Glee’s message has largely been directed at the high school set. Until now. Thanks to Jane Lynch, aka snarky cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, little kids of America are about to get a dose of Glee-style anti-bullying education.

Lynch is taking the biting insults that have won her a following on Glee to PBS Kids for Monday’s special President’s Day episode of kiddie hit WordGirl. Abandoning her tracksuit for a cape, she’s taking on the role of Miss Power, an uber villain whose secret weapon is using mean words to hurt people. Sound like anyone we know and love, Gleeks?

I never thought my kid would have to deal with people like this … at least not until high school. But for us the bullying started in preschool, and I was amazed at how quickly one kid with a big mouth could rally other kids to do her bidding. The problem isn’t just one kid with a mean streak. It’s how one mean kid can convince traditionally “good” kids to get on board.

And Jane Lynch is the perfect one to make that point to our kids.

Lynch may not be a cheerleading coach, but she wields some crazy powers of persuasion that she holds over her Cheerios on Glee. Only instead of Brittany and Santana being sent off to do her dirty deeds with threats that they’ll be kicked off the squad if they don’t comply, it will be heroine WordGirl who is convinced to try out being a bully for awhile to get what she wants. Of course all turns out right in the end (I won’t completely spoil it — this is one of the few kid shows I can watch right along with my daughter, so I can see other parents doing the same).

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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Glee star Jane Lynch has boarded Black Bear Pictures’ feature film A.C.O.D. She joins Richard Jenkins and Adam Scott in the Stuart Zicherman-directed comedy which Zicherman wrote with Ben Karlin. Karlin is the co-creator of The Colbert Report and long time exec producer of The Daily Show who most recently got a Golden Globes nomination for producing 50/50. Teddy Schwarzman is producing and fully financing the project through his Black Bear Pictures’ shingle. Karlin and Tim Perell will also produce.

Lynch will play ‘Dr. Judith,’ a down on her luck author and therapist who jumps at the chance to regain the spotlight when her former patient Carter (Scott) shows up seeking her advice. “We’re really excited to have Jane Lynch join the cast of A.C.O.D.,” said Schwarzman. “We look forward to watching her bring the exceptional character of ‘Dr. Judith’ to life.” Lynch will next be seen on the big screen in the Pete and Bobby Farrelly-directed The Three Stooges, which opens April 13. She is represented by Domain.

Black Bear Pictures recently wrapped Broken City, whish stars Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and the company next produces J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost, which will star Robert Redford. Black Bear is also developing with Jeremy Renner, King Of Heists, based on the bestselling book by J. North Conway.

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My life has changed since ‘Glee’ I recently went to my doctor and had no make-up on. I didn’t look great, and had to put my bag in front of my face when someone tried to take my picture. Then again, when I first picked my daughter up from school, the kids were like, “It’s Sue Sylvester.” Now I’m just another mum.

If I could talk to my 20-year-old self I would first of all shake her by the shoulders, get rid of the perm, and say, “Just relax, and don’t worry so much.”

My troubles were of my own making I’ve lived quite a safe life, but for some reason I suffered. No horrible things – I’m of a privileged white class – but I had all sorts of shames and fears. I’m a little bit of a worrier. Even now I’m full of anxiety, afraid the parade’s going to pass me by.

Once you shine a light on your fears they become laughable One day in therapy I was talking about how pissed off I was that people were passing me on the wrong side of my bike and how dangerous it was. My therapist said, “I want you to write a monologue in that voice.” I did and I barely got through it, we were laughing so hard.

I couldn’t have coped with fame when I was younger I was very influenced by what I’d hear on the outside. I would have been reading blogs and they would have hurt my feelings. Or if they were positive, they would have inflated me. I would have had a hard time finding a happy medium 20 years ago. At 51 I can handle it.

The great thing about the industry today is that you can create something and get people to see it When I was in my twenties and thirties I would be doing little sketch shows and the only people who would see them would be those who drunkenly came down the street and fell into our theatre. Today, people have their own YouTube channels.

Hosting the Emmys last year was stressful but I’m glad I had the experience. What kept me sane was that I knew that the awards were the most important thing about the event.

I have about 30 tracksuits for ‘Glee’ They’re crazy colours. I have a fuchsia one. I have a lime-green one. They’re just… they’re fabulous.

Source: independent.co.uk