One Tree Hill Season 8 Episode 17: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get

One Tree Hill Season 8 Episode 17 can be watched on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 8:00pm EST at WPIX (CW) TV channel. Title of the brand new episode is: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get. Synopsis of the episode is: Haley tries to make sure everyone is ready for her baby's arrival; Julian and Brooke prepare to start a family; Chuck asks Chase for help with a problem.
One Tree Hill is an American teen, young adult television drama created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003 on The WB Television Network. After its third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network, and since September 27, 2006 the network is the official broadcaster for the show in the USA. The show is set in fictional town Tree Hill in North Carolina and originally follows the lives of two half-brothers, Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty). Their relationship evolves from heartless enemies to caring brothers, and the basketball drama, as well as the brothers' on-again/off-again romances with female characters, are significant elements within the series.
The first four seasons of the show focus on the main characters' high school years. With the beginning of the fifth season, Schwahn decided to skip the timeline four years ahead, showing their lives after college. In the seventh season, he adjusted the timeline one year into the future after the sixth season. The opening credits were originally intertwined with the song "I Don't Want to Be" by Gavin DeGraw playing in the background. The theme was removed from the opening in the fifth season; Schwahn said the decision was made to lower production costs, add more time for the storyline, and because he felt that the song was more representative of the main characters' adolescent past, not their present maturity. The credits then only consisted of the title written on a black background. The theme was restored for Season 8, due to audience demand, and is sung by different artists each week.
The show has received average ratings, with the second season being the highest rated season, averaging 4.3 million viewers weekly. It has also won Teen Choice Awards. On May 12, 2009, it was confirmed that Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton declined to return for the seventh season, although stories on what transpired vary. Their characters (Lucas and Peyton) had been two of the five main protagonists, as well as one of the central love stories, throughout the show.
The CW officially renewed the show for an eighth season consisting of a minimum 12 episodes on May 18, 2010. Schwahn said this is the last season all the original cast members are contracted for. However, he is hoping the series could go on for more seasons as the network did not announce this as the last season of the show, like they did for Smallville. On October 22, 2010, the show was picked up for a full-season, which will total at 22 episodes.
On January 15, 2011, Dawn Ostroff revealed that season 9 is "a possiblity".