“It isn’t lost on us that the boys had fully formed characters with parents and that literally none of the girls on our show had parents,” she said. Bush said that the actresses still, despite their popularity, had to fight for their characters’ development and growth. At its peak, “One Tree Hill” averaged 4.3 million viewers, and not surprisingly, a significant portion was young women. Their story lines dealt with self-esteem and confidence, drugs, loneliness, grief, teen pregnancy (a New York Times columnist once called out the show for “refusing to lay out the grim consequences of premature motherhood”) and complicated familial and romantic relationships. Lenz) - teenage girls navigating high school in the early 2000s. Change may again be on the horizon for the CW, as earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia are exploring a sale of the network.īut the most engaging characters, for many viewers, were Peyton (Ms. The combination of these shows alongside the creation of “The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl” and “90210” made the network popular among teenagers and young adults drawn to dramas. In 2006, when the WB and UPN networks shut down and the CW emerged, “One Tree Hill,” along with “Gilmore Girls,” “Supernatural,” “Girlfriends,” “Veronica Mars,” “America’s Next Top Model” and “Everybody Hates Chris” were carried over to appeal to a younger audience. ![]() It takes you back and helps you connect with old memories.” ‘We were accessories for the boys.’ If it’s watching ‘One Tree Hill,’ maybe it makes you feel good when you watch it, it makes you happy, makes you laugh. ![]() “Engaging in these sorts of nostalgic activities is largely beneficial. “Nostalgia helps comfort people when they’re stressed or anxious or frayed or lonely,” he said. When people are afraid of the future, they reach into the past for comfort, said Clay Routledge, a professor of business at North Dakota State University, who has been studying human motivation and nostalgia for more than 20 years. Leaning into the past by rewatching shows or having the opportunity to watch them now while listening to podcasts about these series became a common way of coping because of the comfort and familiarity it provided. During the pandemic, many people have been looking back at what they loved. In some ways, the timing for “Drama Queens” was ideal. “Stuff I was willing to put up with, put up with on my own, I was no longer willing to tolerate on account of her.” “Having a daughter was a big game changer for me,” Ms. All three were never fully able to express these feelings when they were on the show, but with age and experience, they’re now able to talk about it. “I felt like I couldn’t trust anybody because the power dynamic on the show was constantly telling me and, from what I understand from Hilarie and Sophia telling them as well, ‘Nobody likes you, nobody trusts you.’” Her sentiments were echoed by Ms. On “Drama Queens” the hosts talk openly about the challenges they faced, including the impossible beauty standards they were expected to live up to, being young and mostly inexperienced in show business, being hypersexualized, with limited control of their character’s fates and being pit against one another on and off the set. ![]() “They like the people involved, so whether it is a charity that I do here in Rhinebeck, New York, or it’s my book or it’s some other side hustle, they support it like it’s their favorite thing ever.” ![]() “What I’ve learned about the fans is that they don’t even necessarily care so much about the show anymore,” Ms. It was clear that even though the show premiered two decades ago and ended nearly a decade ago, there was still interest - if not in the show itself, then certainly in the three women who anchored it for many years. Lenz, was at the top of Spotify and Apple’s charts. Within days, a preview of the podcast along with its theme song, composed and sung by Ms. When iHeartMedia announced in June that the actresses Hilarie Burton Morgan, Sophia Bush and Bethany Joy Lenz were working on a podcast called “Drama Queens” about their time on the teen show “One Tree Hill,” CW millennials - 20- and 30-somethings who grew up on a television diet consisting heavily of shows on the CW, a network founded in the early aughts for teenagers and young adults - lit up.
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