Not specific spoilers on James, but for the One Tree Hill fans!

OTHMIOBIFreak: OTH scoop please, After CMM and Barbara Alyn Woods returning, any chance Ashley Rickards that played Sam in s6 might too?
When we chatted with the Awkward. star, she told us:”I would definitely be open to coming back for some sort of closure for Sam, absolutely. It would be wonderful to go back there because I kept in touch with everybody. I talked to Hilary [Burton] about a week ago.” But has she been approached to return to Tree Hill? “I’m still waiting on my contract for Avatar 4,” she jokes, “So we’ll see.”

Cathy: One Tree Hill’s final season is going to be epic! Any scoop?
Now that Chad Michael Murray is coming back, season nine is indeed going to be epic. According to Tyler Hilton, creator Mark Schwahn is going all out. “One of the reasons why I am such a fan of this last season is because Mark said that last season he thought it might be the last season, so he ended it the way fans wanted it to end,” he tells us. “This season he knows it is going to be the last season, and since he already kind of gave the fans their season last time, he said that he really wants to make this season what he wants. He said that since the show is done after this season, he has no one to impress, he can just do whatever he wants.” Mark Schwahn writing without anyone holding him back? OTH’s final season is going to be cray-cray!

Source: Kristin Dos Santos @ E! Online

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While One Tree Hill has encountered a faux-hurricane in its lengthy run, a real-life mega-storm is something they’d rather steer clear of. Hence, the CW series has halted production on its final season in anticipation of Hurricane Irene’s expected East Coast arrival this weekend.

“As a precautionary measure and in consideration of our cast and crew, One Tree Hill production has shut down for today and [Saturday] due to Hurricane Irene,” a rep for the show tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We will continue to monitor the situation over the next few days.”

Tree Hill‘s Sophia Bush addressed the development Thursday, tweeting, “All our fans in town, please stay inside! We will not be filming. Stay safe.” Bush’s real-life beau and OTH co-star Austin Nichols echoed the sentiment via Twitter with a joke: “Can’t wait to dance with this large woman called Irene.”

While the production stoppage is merely a precaution, it’s likely one that may end up being a necessity: Hurricane Irene is expected to touch-down in North Carolina’s Barrier Islands on Saturday — not too far from where the primetime soap shoots in Wilmington.

Production on New York-based reality series’ Hoarders and Clean House has also been halted until Monday due to Irene.

One Tree Hill’s ninth and final season debuts on The CW at midseason.

Source: Megan Masters @ TV Line

Question: I know you absolutely hate the show but I’d love some One Tree Hill scoop, please. —Samantha via Facebook
Ausiello: Is it out there that a major character gets *i**a**** this season? If it is, please don’t hurt me. I don’t have time to read every spoiler that gets posted to the Interwebnet. I just don’t. Between running an empire and dodging earthquakes, my hands are pretty full.

Source: Michael Ausiello @ TV Line

The Spoiler Chat is back and we know what you’ve been thinking: How on Earth did I ever live without it?

Nautical11: What’s the deal with James only doing 7 episodes this season? How will they write him off?
I’m told where he/Nathan is will be a big, long mystery arc this season as they try to find him. With two kids and a hot wife at home, let’s hope Nathan’s disappearance isn’t a voluntary thing.

Katie: One Tree Hill! Anything?
Dan (Paul Johannson) is definitely back to his crazy-pants ways, full force. We can tell you that early on next season, Dan will be threatening someone’s life. Or as he says, it’s not a threat…it’s a promise. But at least this time, he’s not threatening the life of one of his family members. Baby steps, people.

Sarah: One Tree Hill scoop please!
Producers are looking for an actor who can do an Eastern European accent for a hit man with a dramatic flair. Wait. What? Hit man? Oh boy, we really like how this is season is shaping up. It wouldn’t be right to have normal storylines for our Tree Hill-ers. Who wants to bet that Dan will somehow be involved with this hired gun storyline? And who knew North Carolina was so dangerous?

Theresa in Phoenix, Ariz.: Do you know anything about Chris Keller’s return to OTH? I need more info on my boy Tyler Hilton!
You are so in luck. We’re talking to Tyler later this week, so we’re gonna squeeze scoop out of him so hard, he’ll be walking funny for a month! That was gross. Sorry. But send us questions for him anyway?
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Source: Kristin Dos Santos @ E! Online

You know all those questions you have about CW’s next season? Because we are also huge fans of Supernatural, One Tree Hill, and the rest, we have the same questions.

Is season seven of Supernatural the last? How many episodes is James Lafferty really appearing in on One Tree Hill’s final season? Why didn’t The Vampire Diaries get extra episodes like Nikita and 90210 did? Don’t worry, CW Boss Mark Pedowitz took all our questions, and cranked out many answers…

Fans of OTH have been jerked around concerning original cast member James Lafferty and his number of episodes. Some people hear he’s only appearing in a few. We heard he’ll definitely be in more than a few. And it sounds like Pedowitz confirms our theory: “I do know it’s for multiple.” That wasn’t answer enough for us, so we pressed Paul Hewitt, head of publicity, for an exact number, which he finally gave up. “It’s actually seven [episodes].”

We guess that’s enough Nathan Scott for the final season. Oh, who are we kidding? Give us every episode or give us death! Sorry, the Diet Coke we’ve been chugging just kicked in.

Chad Michael Murray told us last week that he would “absolutely” come back on OTH if they asked him. Unfortunately, as of right now, that’s not happening. “At this point, he’s not coming back. We hope he’ll come back,” Pedowitz says. “We’re going to try and reexamine it as the season goes on. But at this point other original cast members may return and more cast changes and what’s going on will be talked about by Mark Schwahn at a later point.”

Here are the rest of the highlights from the CW presentation:

* Want more than half a season of One Tree Hill? Pedowitz says “at this point, it’s just thirteen [episodes].” But he keeps hope alive for more OTH by adding: “never say never.”

Source: Jenna Mullins @ E! Online

While at a CBS/CW event for the Television Critics Association summer TV press tour, CW President Mark Pedowitz confirmed to me that this would, indeed, be the final season of “One Tree Hill.”

That, of course, had been announced back in May when the network unveiled its new season, but “One Tree Hill” has a reputation for cheating death, so I was just making sure.

What was less clear back in May was how long this ninth and final season would be. The show got a 13 episode pickup, but many fans have wondered if the season could grow by a few more episodes.

That’s certainly not the plan, Pedowitz said. “Today, it is 13 episodes.”

It’s always possible, I suppose, that if the network feels the need to suddenly bump up “One Tree Hill,” now scheduled for a midseason bow around January or so, to earlier in the season to plug a sudden schedule hole, it’s possible the net could ask for more episodes. But the reality of filming (“One Tree Hill” will wrap by November, which means its final scripts would be in a few weeks before that) makes that possibility highly, highly unlikely. And again, this is just me spit-balling here. Pedowitz stood firm on the 13-episodes plan.

Pedowitz, who took over the network reins from Dawn Ostroff, said he knew about the show’s strong fan following long before he took over at the CW.

And though “One Tree Hill’s” eighth season finale could have served as a series ender, Pedowitz said he wanted to give one last gift to the show’s passionate fans.

“We felt it would be really good for the viewers to have (another season),” Pedowitz said. “It’s a good show. The viewers loved it. So we thought we’d keep it going. The fans are very fervent about it, so we felt it was a great treat for them.”

Source: Jeff Hidek @ Star News Online