Tree Hill

One Tree Hill
Series intertitle, seasons 1–4 and 8
Genre	Drama
Created by	Mark Schwahn
Starring	Chad Michael Murray James Lafferty Hilarie Burton Bethany Joy Lenz Paul Johansson Sophia Bush Barry Corbin Craig Sheffer Moira Kelly Barbara Alyn Woods Lee Norris Antwon Tanner Danneel Harris Jackson Brundage Lisa Goldstein Austin Nichols Robert Buckley Shantel VanSanten Jana Kramer Stephen Colletti Tyler Hilton
Narrated by	Seasons 1–6: Chad Michael Murray Season 7 (episodes 1–12): Paul Johansson Season 8: Bethany Joy Lenz
Theme music composer	Seasons 1–4: Gavin DeGraw Season 8: Various artists
Opening theme	"I Don't Want to Be" by Gavin DeGraw
Composer(s)	John E. Nordstrom Mark Morgan Mark Snow Grace Potter Matthew Caws
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	187 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mark Schwahn Michael Tollin Brian Robbins Joe Davola Greg Prange Mark B. Perry
Producer(s)	Maureen Milligan David Blake Hartley Kelly R. Tenney Les Bulter David Strauss Mike Herro Karin Gist Adele Lim R. Lee Fleming Jr. Lynn Raynor John A. Norris Roger Grant
Location(s)	Wilmington, North Carolina
Camera setup	Single-camera setup
Running time	39–44 minutes
Production company(s)	Mastermind Laboratories Tollin/Robbins Productions Warner Bros. Television
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	The WB (2003–2006) The CW (2006–2012)
Picture format	480i SDTV 1080i HDTV
Original release	September 23, 2003 (2003-09-23) – April 4, 2012 (2012-04-04)

One Tree Hill is an American television drama series created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003 on The WB. After the series' third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW, and since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster of the series in the United States. The show is set in the fictional town of Tree Hill in North Carolina and originally follows the lives of two half-brothers, Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty), who compete for positions on their school's basketball team, and the drama that ensues from the brothers' romances.

Most of the filming took place in and around Wilmington, North Carolina. Many of the scenes were shot near the battleship USS North Carolina and on the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus. The first four seasons of the show focus on the main characters' lives through their high school years. With the beginning of the fifth season, Schwahn advanced the timeline by four years to show their lives after college, and he made it jump a further fourteen months from the end of the sixth to the start of the seventh season. The opening credits were originally accompanied by the song "I Don't Want to Be" by Gavin DeGraw. The theme was removed from the opening in the fifth season; Schwahn said that this was to lower production costs, to add more time for the storyline, and because he felt that the song was more representative of the core characters' adolescent past than their present maturity. The credits then consisted only of the title written on a black background. The theme was restored for season 8, in response to audience demand, and was sung by different artists each week.

The series premiered to 2.5 million viewers and rose to 3.3 million in its second week, becoming one of only three shows to rise in their second episode during the 2003–2004 television season. Season one went on to average 3.5 million viewers, and the second season was the highest rated in the series, averaging 4.3 million viewers weekly and a 1.9 Adults 18–49 rating. The series received numerous award nominations, winning two Teen Choice Awards. The show is notable for being one of the rare occasions for a teen drama where no episodes dipped below one million viewes and suffered flagging ratings in later seasons.