Glee lives on even though Monteith won't

After Fox TV announced on Friday that "Glee" would resume production in August — after delaying due to the death of actor Cory Monteith — show creator Ryan Murphy explained that the decision to continue filming ultimately rested with actress Lea Michele. "The person who made the decision was Lea, who felt that the best thing for the cast and crew was to be together and to get back to work," Murphy said, in an interview with E! News. "We decided to do that with Lea's blessing and we're going to go back to work and have grief counselors on the set for two weeks because people are really hurting." Murphy added that if Michele had wanted to walk away from the show altogether, he would have pulled the plug. But even if they did pull the plug, it wouldn't have been the first time a TV series was pulled after one of the stars died. In the late 80s, there was a TV show on called My Sister Sam. They pulled it after one of the stars, Rebecca Schaeffer, was fatally shot on Nelson Mandela's 71st birthday. And speaking of Nelson Mandela, The Weinstein Company released the first official U.S. trailer for Nelson Mandela biopic, Long Walk to Freedom, last week. It arrived just in time for the former South African president's 95th birthday. Mandela, who led his nation out of apartheid, has been hospitalized in Pretoria for more than one month with a lung infection. In this video, actor Idris Elba steps into the shoes of a younger Mandela, taking viewers through a journey from the revolutionary's childhood in a rural village to his inauguration as South Africa's first democratically elected president — including all the hardships in between.