Lifetime is spending the holidays with the residents of Tree Hill: The network will air ‘Tis the Season: A One Tree Hill Cast Reunion following the premiere of its original TV movie The Christmas Contract, starring OTH vets Hilarie Burton, Robert Buckley, Danneel Ackles and Antwon Tanner.
Participating in the one-hour special — airing Thursday, Nov. 22 at 10/9c — are series stars Burton, Ackles, Tanner, Tyler Hilton and Stephen Colletti (who has his own Lifetime flick, Hometown Christmas, on Sunday, Dec. 16). The cable net also touts “a few surprise special guests.”
The Christmas Contract — featuring a musical appearance from Hilton — premieres Nov. 22 at 8 pm. (Click here for plot details.) The following night, Friday, Nov. 23 at 8 pm, OTH alumna Bethany Joy Lenz headlines the movie Poinsettias for Christmas, about a woman who returns home to help her dad (Smallville‘s John Schneider) figure out why the family business’ plants have yet to turn red, all while falling in love with a local botanist (UnREAL‘s Marcus Rosner), of course.
Lifetime’s holiday slate also includes actress Sarah Drew’s first post-Grey’s Anatomy TV role in Christmas Pen Pals, debuting Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 pm. Read on for the official description:
Following an unexpected breakup weeks before Christmas, Hannah (Drew), tech wiz and creator of the dating app, Perfect One, heads home for the holidays, challenged to save her failing business by re-conceiving a new romantic dating model. Upon her return she runs into her high school boyfriend, Sam (When Calls the Heart‘s Niall Matter) who she has carefully avoided for years and reluctantly makes a deal with her dad, Ted (Family Ties‘ Michael Gross) to sign up for the town’s Christmas Cupid, an anonymous holiday pen pal service. As the season progresses, Hannah is smitten by each beautifully written letter she receives and starts to believe that her Christmas pen pal could be her soul mate. It’s not until Christmas Eve that everyone must reveal their true identities to their pen pals, even if it means coming face to face with the last person they ever expected.
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I love this about OTH but it’s not a reunion if all of the main cast doesn’t reunite. That’s including Sophia Bush, Bethany Joy Lenz, Chad Michael Murray, and James Lafferty.
Getting Bush and Murray in the same room ain’t happening. Those two still don’t get along.
Maybe so but they were still on the show for a few years after their divorce before CMM left. I know it’s wishful thinking but a reunion needs to be done right to make it a reunion.
I totally agree with Marty Si however it’s still exciting and can’t wait for it.
Happy there will be a reunion special with some of the cast. I can’t wait to see and see their Christmas movie!
I’m getting an OTH reunion and Hallmark is making Christmas movies with black people this year. This is going to be a great holiday season!
I feel like I shouldn’t have burst out laughing when I read “Poinsettias for Christmas”. Every single one of these movies is just a mad libs version of “Woman returns to her hometown to help her [relative/friend/mentor] with their failing [business] all while falling in love with a local [occupation] and learning not to be such a workaholic and to embrace the true meaning of the season.”
Maybe so, but if I like the actors I don’t care. They always work around the holidays.
Hilarie Burton and Robert Buckley never get to chance playing with together in OTH. Robert a.k.a. Clay come to show after Hilarie a.k.a. Peyton left. This is good. Antwon Tanner a.k.a Skills i always enjoyed to watch. My only wish is Daneel not been with them. İ never liked her character Rachel. Not even she lie for Brooke about Math test. İ wish Sophia or Bethany be part of the movie.
By the way İ don’t love Daneel either. But she is married to my dream guy. İn all actors or characters he is the one.