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"One Tree Hill" (2003)

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• Moira Kelly was pregnant during the first season, so Karen was sent to chef school in Italy.
  
  
• All of episodes are named after punk-rock songs or albums, in reference to Peyton and her expertise in the field of rock.
  
  
• The show was originally going to be made as a TV movie with the title "Ravens". It was only when the network decided that there was enough good ideas in the concept to turn it into a complete series that the title was changed to "One Tree Hill".
  
  

• The name ‘One Tree Hill’ was taken from a U2 song of the same name. The creator, Mark Schwahn, was listening to 'U2' 's ‘The Joshua Tree’ album. When the song One Tree Hill came on, he decided to make it the title.
  
  
• A normal day at the set starts at 6.30 in the morning.
  
  
• Chad Michael Murray (Lucas Scott) and Sophia Bush (Brooke Davis) met on the set of One Tree Hill and married on April 16, 2005. They subsequently divorced.
  
  
• Lucas Scott lives at 1829 Barnette Drive, Tree Hill, NC, 01982.
  
  
• There is actually a place in New Zealand called "One Tree Hill". It is a hill that did have a single tree and plaque at the top, until someone chopped the tree down. There is therefore no tree there anymore, but it is still called "One Tree Hill."
  
  
• After the third season, the show was picked up by The CW because The WB merged with UPN to form The CW.
  
  
• In the first season James Lafferty's character, Nathan, is often shown with his left nipple pierced. He doesn't actually have the piercing, they glued it on when he was shirtless in a scene.
  
  
• James Lafferty is the only regular cast member to be the actual teenager playing a high school student even though he's already 20 years old by the end of season two.
  
  
• Character's full names: Lucas Eugene Scott, Nathan Royal Scott, Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer, Brooke Penelope Davis, Daniel Robert Scott, James Lucas Scott, Bevin Evan Mirskey, Lindsey Evelyn Strauss, Rachel Virginia Gattina, Marvin Leonardo McFadden.
  
  
• The characters' IM names: Lindsey Strauss (Lindsey), Scott23 (Nathan), BDavis (Brooke), Marv (Mouth), JunkYrdDog (Junk), Fergielicious (Fergie), BigFtHunterHJS (Haley), and Lucas Scott (Lucas).
  
  
• Since the start of One Tree Hill, James Lafferty and the cast and crew of the show host a basketball game toward the end of every season to benefit different charities. Along with these charity games, One Tree Hill has also hosted the Hurricane Katrina Relief Softball Game and, toward the end of the second season, the show's members also hosted a charity football game. At all charity events, most of the cast and crew get split into two teams and play. The proceeds of each game have gone to different charities.
  
  
• Some plot lines on the show have gone on to reality. -Season 2: Haley goes on tour with Chris Keller and the Wreckers; the actual actors/singers went on tour, selling out concerts throughout the United States. -Season 3: Peyton and Ellie host a concert and record a soundtrack to benefit the Breast Cancer Foundation. The soundtrack was recorded and released and part of the proceeds from the sales of the soundtrack went to the National Breast Cancer Association. -Season 5: Mia goes on tour after recording her first album with Peyton. Once that episode aired, Kate Voegele (Mia) went on tour with Hanson. -Season 5: Peyton tells Mia that she arranged for her to sing at a concert sponsored by Starburst. Kate Voegele (Mia) sang at the "CW and Starburst present Kate Voegele in Concert at Six Flags".
  
  
• The name of Peyton's label is Red Bedroom Records.
  
  
• After no theme song the entire fifth season, Gavin DeGraw does a cameo on the season finale and sings the theme song in the first scene, at the piano with Jamie.
  
  
• Jackson Brundage is the only cast member to become a regular cast member without having first appeared on the show as a guest star. He came in as a regular cast member in season 5 as Jamie, Nathan and Haley's son.
  
  
• Haley is not shown driving a car until season 5. The first four seasons she is driven around by Lucas, Nathan, Peyton, Brooke, or Skills.
  
  

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