One Tree Hill TV Show, 2003, Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton
One Tree Hill is an American teen television drama. It premiered on September 23, 2003 and aired on The WB in the United States until May 3, 2006. On September 18, 2006, The WB merged with UPN and formed The CW, so One Tree Hill began its fourth season on the The CW on September 27, 2006 at 9/8C, and it now airs weekly. One Tree Hill is filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina.
There were 22 episodes in Season One (2003-2004), 23 episodes in Season Two (2004-2005), 22 episodes in Season Three (2005-2006), and 21 episodes in Season Four (2006-2007). For Season Five, The CW has ordered 22 episodes. Since February 15, 2007, One Tree Hill episodes have been available for download at iTunes.
As stated on Disc Three of the first season DVD set, Mark Schwahn originally planned for One Tree Hill to be a feature length film, under the name of Ravens. He pitched the idea around town but under the advice of a WB front man, he revised the movie into an hour long teen drama series. Tree Hill is a fictional town, named from the song "One Tree Hill" by U2. Schwahn had named the town "Tree Hill" because while he was writing the idea for the show he had been listening to the album The Joshua Tree by U2. The show was to be called Ravens until the network asked Schwahn to change it. Ravens made the show seem more sports-centred and seeing as their lead-in was Gilmore Girls and TV is watched predominantly by females it would be better to change the name to appeal to a larger audience. So Schwahn renamed the show One Tree Hill, appropriately so. At the start of the show, fans often asked Schwahn why the show was named One Tree Hill when the town was just called Tree Hill. The question is ostensibly answered when Karen tells Lucas in Episode 1.21 that "There is only one Tree Hill - and it's your home." The irony in this is that there is actually more than one real life "One Tree Hill"; as well as the volcanic cone in New Zealand, it is the name of an Australian suburb and a teenage make-out spot in Essex, England. Schwahn has been quoted as saying that the "one" comes from the High School's address; 1, Tree Hill. Wikipedia
