‘Good Sam’ Sets Date for ‘One Tree Hill’ Reunion With Hilarie Burton & Bethany Joy Lenz

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Bethany Joy Lenz, Sophia Bush, Hilarie Buron on Good Sam
Courtesy of Danielle Blancher

Good Sam is staging a One Tree Hill reunion!

Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz will be guest-starring in the March 23 episode of Sophia Bush’s CBS medical drama. Their episode filmed in January in Toronto.

Burton and Lenz will be playing sisters Gretchen and Amy Taylor who cross paths with Bush’s Dr. Sam Griffith when Amy is admitted as a patient at Detroit’s Lakeshore Sentinel Hospital. More details will be announced at a later date. Check out the full photo of the three on set below.

Bush, Burton, and Lenz starred on One Tree Hill, which premiered on The WB (which then merged with UPN to form The CW) in 2003, as Brooke Davis, Peyton Sawyer, and Haley James. Burton left after Season 6 in 2009, and Bush and Lenz were part of the cast through the series finale in 2012. The three now co-host the iHeartRadio podcast Drama Queens, in which they revisit their experience filming the drama.

Bethany Joy Lenz, Sophia Bush, Hilarie Buron on Good Sam

Courtesy of Danielle Blancher

Good Sam follows Sam as she contends with her father, Dr. Rob “Griff” Griffith (Jason Isaacs), after he wakes from a coma and expects to slip back into his role as chief of surgery — only she’s taken over in the interim. As Griff defies Sam’s authority and challenges her medical expertise, the big question becomes whether this father and daughter will ever be able to mend their own relationship as expertly as they heal the hearts of their patients.

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Katie Wech, Jennie Snyder Urman, Joanna Klein, Frank Siracusa, and John Weber serve as executive producers for CBS Studios.

Good Sam, Wednesdays, 10/9c, CBS

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    GreenCoffee

    PR damage control. Good Sam is tanking and is another flop for SB.  

    Hilarie actually has the best career out of the three, since she's been consistently working nonstop since OTH ended. She was a regular on White Collar, Grey's Anatomy for a while, had a contract with Hallmark (don't know if she still does after her complaints a few years ago), recently appeared on her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan's show, etc.  

    Bethany has done Hallmark films, also guest starred on Grey's Anatomy I believe, but hasn't done as much work as Hilarie has.

    Sophia has worked steadily, but nothing has really been successful for her. Her first lead role after OTH was Partners, where she basically played Brooke Davis again. It was canceled after 6 episodes, and never aired the rest of season 1. After leaving Chicago P.D., she hasn't had much luck. Since then, she's guest starred on Jane The Virgin, This Is Us, Alex Inc, etc. She recently starred in a season of Love, Victor, etc. But, her movies haven't sparked. Acts of Violence with Bruce Willis was straight to video.

    This move is good for all of them, but Hilarie really doesn't need it.

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      GreenCoffee

      I do want to clarify that Good Sam is the first show since Partners, outside of Chicago P.D. where Sophia's been THE LEAD, not A LEAD and it's made it to series. She was the female lead on Partners and the female lead on Chicago P.D. for four seasons (although, she was third billed until Jon Seda left in S4). Since then, she hasn't had the best luck with shows where she's the lead. CBS passed on Surveillance, but picked up Good Sam. Yet, Good Sam is underperforming.