Season 9 was ranked at #180 but had 55k more viewers.Ģ9. In Season 8, Episode 11, there is a terrible thunderstorm in Tree Hill in which Brooke and Jamie get stuck in a car in the river and the dam breaks. The lowest rated season was the eighth which ranked as the #138 most watched show and averaged only 1.8 million viewers. When the show moved from Tuesday nights to Wednesday nights for season three, the show lost roughly 1.5 million viewers. The show saw an increase in viewers from season one by 800,000 viewers, which is a lot for show on The WB. It averaged 4.3 millions viewers each week and was the 117th ranked show for the 2004-2005 television season. All of the extras in the episode are kids from the town.Ģ5. Paul Johansson (Dan) was a great basketball player when he was young.Ģ6. One Tree Hill uncharacteristically jumped ahead four years to bypass college so the actors would play their own ages.Ģ7. Creator Mark Schwahn originally wrote One Tree Hill as a feature-length project called Ravens.Ģ8. The most popular season of One Tree Hill was the second season. The episode was really filmed in Honey Grove after the town won a contest in which fans wrote in, saying why One Tree Hill should come to their city.
The first time she was told she didn’t look sexy enough, the second time she was told she looked too sexy, and the third time she was offered the part.Ģ3. Johansson, on the other hand, “hated” the script for Season 3, Episode 16 when he read it because he didn’t want to pull a gun on Sheffer.Ģ4. In Season 4, Episode 17, the cast goes to Honey Grove, Texas, to rescue Marvin “Mouth” McFadden (Lee Norris). He felt someone should “say something loudly” about the tragedy.Ģ2. Sophia Bush read for the role of Brooke three times. Things changed a bit.Ĩ. To separate her from co-star Hilarie Burton (Peyton), Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley) was told she had to dye her blonde curls before starting to shoot One Tree Hill.ĩ. Moira Kelly (Karen) found out she was pregnant after the pilot was shot, but Schwahn didn’t want to write the pregnancy into the show, so they used an array of props to hide her belly.ġ0. Sheffer thought the way Keith died was “brilliant.”ġ1. Haley has a huge arc surrounding her singing chops because Schwahn overheard Lenz singing in a parking lot and decided to give her character a singing career.Ģ1. Schwahn was inspired to write the school-shooting episode (Season 3, Episode 16) after hearing someone talk about Columbine and whispering the name.
Then, he’d want to play with Antwon Tanner, who played Antwon “Skills” Taylor, so Schwahn wrote storylines for them.ħ. When the series premiered, Schwahn had it in his mind that it would end with Keith (Craig Sheffer), Karen, and Lucas living happily ever after. He would tell Schwahn he wanted to eat ice cream, and in nearly every scene, he’d be eating ice cream.
After 2004, the show received 18 more nominations and one win, which would again go to Chad Michael Murray in the category of Choice TV Actor: Male.Ħ. When Jamie was first written into the show, a lot of his scenes were dictated by what Brundage wanted to do. Murray would take home the surfboard in the category. In 2004, the drama received nine nominations at the Teen Choice Awards in the categories of Choice Breakout TV Star Female for Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz and Choice Breakout TV Star Male for James Lafferty and Chad Michael Murray. was named one of the top television shows in 2009 by the ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards. 3. Lafferty took the Ravens jersey he wore in the pilot and the NS23 shoes from the set.Ĥ. Though Jackson Brundage was only 6 when he was cast as Jamie, he was really good at memorizing lines.ĥ.