Two One Tree Hill characters are about to pay an unexpected visit to Portland.

Sources confirm to me exclusively that new Tuesday companions One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected will stage a crossover this fall when OTH songbirds Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti) and Mia (Kate Voegele) guest-star on the Oct. 12 episode of LUX.

From a creative standpoint, the stunt actually makes sense.

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"Life Unexpected" Creator Liz Tigelaar on "One Tree Hill" Crossover
by Jean Bentley
posted Sept 14th 2010




How did the "One Tree Hill" crossover come about?

It's amazing. It came about because The CW said we had to do a crossover.

I was like "Great, is Mark Schwahn writing it?" And then they were like "No, you are. It's your crossover onto your show." And I was like "Crap," because I thought "Is that one less episode for me? I'm psyched! I can get caught up."

But it ended up being wonderful because they were nice enough to send their people to us to help our show. We're still growing and building, so they're sending their characters with the hopes that their audience will come to us after them.




Kate Voegele, who plays Mia, is performing at a music festival in Portland that Cate and Ryan's radio station is hosting. Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti), her producer, comes along with her and ends up performing as well.

It turns out that Haley and Cate have all these ways that they're similar that they discover in the course of spending time together: They both were kind of dorky nerdy high school valedictorians who got pregnant in high school by athletes named Nate or Nathan. I was like "Wait, what? Oh my god, this is amazing. This is a perfect crossover."

It was very resonant with the story we wanted to tell anyway, so the timing was perfect.







You also got Sarah McLachlan, Ben Lee and Rain Perry (who sings the theme song) to play.
How did it turn out?

It felt like you were at a real concert when we were filming. I keep watching the dailies every day because I feel like I was at my own personal concert.

Sarah McLachlan was the most magical, beautiful thing I've ever seen. It was incredible. The episode's going to be so good

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/09/14/life-unexpected-creator-liz-tigelaar-on-one-tree-hill-crosso/