Get Ready for One Tree Hill Season 7!

12 09 2009

We’re days away from One Tree Hill’s season 7 premiere!

Here’s what you need to know about last season:

After season 5 ended with a massive cliff-hanger–which girl did Lucas ask to marry him?–it is revealed that Peyton is the one Luke called and they travel to Las Vegas to get married. Realizing they want their friends and family to witness the nuptials, Leyton returns to Tree Hill where they move in together.  A few months later, Peyton finds out she’s pregnant but soon suffers complications.  The duo decide to follow the motto of carpe diem and pull-off a last-minute wedding.  The wedding night takes a disastrous turn when Peyton suffers yet another pregnancy complication but it leads to the birth of the beautiful and healthy Sawyer Brooke Scott.  We last see a happy Leyton and baby Sawyer driving in The Comet..

Earlier in the season, Lucas is ecstatic when he finds out An Unkindness of Ravens will be made into a movie.  He’s thrown for a loop, however, when the producer ends up being Peyton’s ex, Julian Baker.  Julian decides not to cause any trouble with Leyton and instead works peacefully with Lucas on the film.  After finding a director and casting the lead roles, the film is shut down.

Peyton finds out who her birth father is but is unable to forge a relationship with him.  She continues to work with Mia (who starts dating Brooke’s ex, Chase) on her music career, and helps Haley resume hers.

Brooke gets off to a bumpy start when she is assualted one night at Clothes Over Bros.  Convinced her mother is responsible for the attack, the two drift further apart.  Brooke’s faith in herself and humanity is restored when she takes in Sam, one of Haley’s troubled young students.  The two adjust to living together and develop a mother-daughter dynamic, which comes to an end when Sam decides to live with her birth mother.

Throughout this, Brooke continues to find happiness in her love life.  She rejects Owen when he comes back to town, and reluctantly starts a relationship with Julian.  Despite his efforts to convince her how much he loves her, Brooke is apprehensive to commit.  In the finale, she mends her relationship with her mother and ultimately decides Julian is one the for her and goes to him to declare her love.

Haley, Nathan and Jamie find life as they know it disrupted when Quentin–Haley’s student, Nathan’s motivator and Jamie’s role model–is murdered.  Haley is fired from her job as a teacher at Tree Hill High after she refuses to censor one of Sam’s essays. Nathan, in an effort to make his way back to the NBA, plays Slamball before realizing it is too dangerous for him.  He joins a minor league team and, in the finale, is called up to the NBA as a member of the Charlotte Bobcats.  Jamie’s growing pains include dealing  a school bully and his first crush, finding out the truth about Grandpa Dan’s past and being nearly kidnapped by Nanny Carrie (again).

Dan faces struggles in almost every aspect of his life: he’s kidnapped and tortured by Nanny Carrie, his sons still refuse to have anything to do with him and his heart conditions worse.  Add on an explosive confrontation with ex-wife Deb, and it makes for one trying year in the life of Dan Scott.

Speaking of Deb, she breaks up with Skills who takes it badly and first but rebounds with Jamie’s teacher, Miss Lauren.

Mouth and Millicent take a big step and move in together, but their relationship progress is thrawted when Gigi coms back to town and tries to get with Mouth.  After some time apart, Mouth is able to win Millicent back and they resume their relationship.

The season ends with everyone (except for Dan, perhaps) in a state of happiness and satisfaction.

Come back tomorrow for an exclusive One Tree Hill interview and come back Monday night at 8pm eastern for a live-blog of the season 7 premiere!





News Roundup: 90210, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl and More

11 09 2009
  • A 1991 Beverly  Hills 90210 -themed cover of PEOPLE and a video with Shannen Doherty (Brenda, Beverly Hills 90210) is included in PEOPLE.com’s 90s flashback.  Doherty’s words are interesting, especially when put into context via the paper I wrote about her.
  • Jason Priestley (Brandon, Beverly Hills 90210) will be hosting the Canadian Country Music Association Awards this Sunday.
  • This is the first picture I’ve seen of Tiffani Amber Thiessen (Valerie, Beverly Hills 90210) for her upcoming show White Collar.
  • Korbi has a video interview with John Schneider (Liam’s step-father, 90210).
  • BuddyTV has an interview with Robert Buckley (Clayton, One Tree Hill).
  • MTV has an interview with Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl).
  • While appearing on The View this morning, Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) said her hospitalization was “blown out of proportion.”
  • Flashback to Sept 11, 1998 when the Dawson’s Creek cast graced the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Click here to read the full story.




News Roundup: One Tree Hill, 90210, Gossip Girl, Dawson’s Creek and More

10 09 2009
  • I have decided that future Trivia Nights will only be held on Mondays and Tuesdays *when the episodes are repeats.*  If there’s a new episode, there won’t be trivia.  If it’s a repeat, I’ll host trivia.  This seemed like the most fair and least-stressful way to do it.  During long hiatuses, however, such as the summer off-season, we will go back to weekly games.  I will always post about a Trivia Night the morning of, so keep your eyes peeled, and I’ll give a heads-up in advance whenever possible.
  • Check out Mark Schwahn’s preview of One Tree Hill’s season premiere.
  • Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl) and her band Pretty Reckless played a show in New York tonight as part of Fashion’s Night Out.
  • Much of the Gossip Girl cast attended a party yesterday to celebrate the upcoming launch of the new GG-inspired clothing line.
  • PEOPLE.com has a photo gallery of Tori Spelling (Donna, Beverly Hills 90210) and her family.
  • Candy Spelling, Tori’s mother, wrote me that she liked my interview with Randy (her son and Tori’s brother).
  • Korbi has a video interview with Ryan Eggold (Ryan, 90210).
  • Joshua Jackson (Pacey, Dawson’s Creek) is on the cover of  the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. (Coincidentally, he was also on the cover this week back in 1998–more on that tomorrow).  He says his show Fringe “has been the total opposite of my Dawson’s Creek experience.”
  • The Vampire Diaries is being described as “Twlight for the 90210 and Dawson’s Creek crowd” and an “updated Dawson’s Creek with fangs.” There’s more comparisons here.
  • I thought this was a funny observation from Obama’s press conference last night: “The reaction to Obama on the part of some of his partisan foes is now making Bush derangement syndrome look like a hot and heavy Dawson’s Creek romance.”
  • Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) has a new post on her blog–her first one since July.
  • TVGuide.com has an interview with Jeri Ryan (Charlotte, The O.C.) on her role in Leverage.




Fun Fact

10 09 2009

Did you know Penn Badgley (Dan, Gossip Girl) played Brittany Snow’s love interest in John Tucker Must Die?

What I find particularly humorous about this is that on Gossip Girl, Snow played the young version of Lily–aka, the mother to Dan’s on-again, off-again girlfriend!

And, of course, Sophia Bush (Brooke, One Tree Hill) also starred in John Tucker.

To top it all off, Badgley also starred in The Bedford Diaries, where Ernest Waddell, who played Peyton’s brother Derek on One Tree Hill, was his co-star.

Yet another tangled teen drama web of connections!





News Roundup: 90210, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, The O.C. and More

9 09 2009
  • The CW posted lots of new video “extras” for 90210, One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl.
  • The Los Angeles Times reports that 90210 scored its best ratings since January last but as Zap2it points out, it still has an uphill battle if it wants to survive.
  • Korbi has a video interview with Matt Lanter (Liam, 90210).
  • RadarOnline.com has a video interview with Trevor Donovan (Teddy, 90210).
  • The CW Source has a video interview with Shenae Grimes (Annie, 90210).
  • The Broadroom, starring Jennie Garth (Kelly, Beverly Hills 90210) has launched its first webisode.  Garth appeared on the Today show this morning to discuss it.
  • PEOPLE.com has an interview with Laura Leighton (Sophie, Beverly Hills 90210), and there will  be more in their next issue.
  • The official One Tree Hill Twitter account tweeted my poll!
  • The CW’s One Tree Hill page has finally updated to have the new cast pic front and center, and gotten rid of things on the main page that Chad Michael Murray (Lucas, One Tree Hill) and Hilarie Burton (Peyton, One Tree Hill).
  • Examiner.com has a piece on One Tree Hill’s past and future.
  • Robert Buckley (Clayton, One Tree Hill) deleted his Twitter account.
  • There’s a new SoGoPro podcast featuring Burton. She also has a new vlog.
  • Enter here to win tickets to a Kate Voegele (Mia, One Tree Hill) concert and a slew of other great prizes.
  • If you’re an actor living in New York City, you can apply to be one of the guides for the Gossip Girl tours.  Just e-mail a headshot and resume to paulineg@onlocationtours.com.
  • If you live in Chicago, you can go to a Gossip Girl premiere viewing party and fashion show at Red Canary next Monday night.  It will serve as the launch party for You Know You Love Fashion, a sort-of-new Web site dedicated to GG fashion.
  • USA Today has a story on how to mimic the styles of Blair (Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl) and Chuck (Ed Westwick, Gossip Girl).
  • Chace Crawford (Nate, Gossip Girl), Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl), Mischa Barton (Marissa, The O.C.) and Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) all attended a recent GQ-Dior party.
  • Michelle Trachtenberg (Georgina, Gossip Girl) is included in E!Online’s fall preview of Mercy, Barton is in the one for The Beautiful Life and Busy Philipps (Audrey, Dawson’s Creek) is in the one for Cougar Town.
  • Peter Gallagher (Sandy, The O.C.) will star in a show show called Covert Affairs.
  • For those of you who’ve never actually seen Kevin Williamson (creator, Dawson’s Creek), here’s a video interview.




Spoiler: Mega Buzz

9 09 2009

RELEVANT QUESTIONS–DON’T READ IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW!!!

What will happen with Nathan and Haley in Season 7? — Saderia
Will Rob Buckley ever be shirtless on One Tree Hill?Sarah
ADAM: Although it’s all kisses and rainbows for Naley when the season premiere starts, at the end of the hour something (or maybe someone) puts their happiness into serious jeopardy. And Sarah, shirtlessness abounds in the first episode: At least four sets of pecs and abs will be on display.

Please tell me that Navid and Adrianna stay together on 90210. They’re the cutest couple. — Quinn
MICKEY: For now, they’re still together, but this guy showing up doesn’t help matters. Anyway, Navid will have his hands full working on a blockbuster story for the West Beverly Blaze when a student overdoses, and Annie’s new boyfriend is implicated. It allows 90210 to have a “teaching moment,” just like its preachy predecessor did. Stay in school, kids!

Mickey’s Mega Rave: The “new” 90210 isn’t perfect, but I’m really digging the sullen, nerve-wracked Annie (Shenae Grimes), who may or may not be a murderer. Her downward spiral, which began Tuesday with a drunken cabana tryst with an upperclassman, continues next week when she finds herself at the center of a “sext” scandal. Poor Annie — love it!





News Roundup: 90210, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl and The O.C.

8 09 2009




Poll: Which Premiere Are You Most Looking Forward To?

7 09 2009

The 2009-2010 Teen Drama Television Season officially begins tomorrow night.





News Roundup: One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, The O.C. and 90210

7 09 2009
  • Rewatch the One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl season finales tonight.  The new seasons premiere next week.
  • Shantel Van Santen (Quinn, One Tree Hill) is featured in the September issue of Nylon.
  • The new OTH Connection podcast has an interview with Robert Buckley (Clayton, One Tree Hill).
  • Some overseas fans are trying to organize a One Tree Hill convention in the UK.
  • Leighton Meester (Blair, Gossip Girl) is up for Best Lead Actress in a Drama in the EWwys.
  • Taylor Momsen (Jenny, Gossip Girl) now has an official MySpace page.  And this is her official site.
  • Stephanie Savage (executive producer, Gossip Girl; The O.C.) and Rebecca Rand Kirshner Sinclair (executive producer, 90210) get shoutouts in this article.
  • Starpulse and HitFix have spoilish interviews with Michael Steger (Navid, 90210).
  • The Chicago Tribune has a spoilish interview with Matt Lanter (Liam, 90210).
  • TVGuide.com has a spoilish interview with Trevor Donovan (Teddy, 90210).
  • PEOPLE.com has a 90210-themed “Love Connection” game.




“Brother From Another Mother” Marathon Today!

7 09 2009

SoapNet is airing a 5-hour One Tree Hill  marathon today, which will focus on Lucas and Nathan’s “journey from enemies, to frenemies, to friends.”

Tune in between noon and 5pm eastern time to see the episodes, starting with the pilot.

Note: this is airing in place of the normal weekday teen drama schedule.

Enjoy!