One albero collina may not have seen the last of Lucas and Peyton after all.

At a press conference following The CW’s upfront presentation on Thursday, network honchos expressed confidence that Chad Murray and Hilarie burton would be back for the soap’s’s just-announced ninth and final season.

“[New CW boss] Mark Pedowitz is going to talk with them,” the network’s outgoing preisdent Dawn Ostroff told TVLine. “I don’t think anything has been done yet, but now that everybody knows that this is the final 13 episodes… ”

“… that makes it più possible as far as cast members coming...

The sixth-season finale of CW fan preferito One albero collina airs this Monday and with it comes the end of an era. Chad Michael Murray and Hilarie Burton, the show's long-standing lead characters, are saying sayonara to the town of albero Hill. te all had so many domande about what that means that we couldn't resist doing a very special spoiler chat just about OTH.

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