Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz Advise ‘Drama Queens’ Fans to Switch to ‘OTH’ DVDs

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The podcast must go on. The women of One Tree Hill will continue their “Drama Queens” rewatch podcast amid the SAG-AFTRA strike, but they encouraged fans to stop streaming the show and return to DVD box sets.Sophia Bush, Hilarie Burton Morgan and Bethany Joy Lenz shared a plea to fans on the Monday, July 24, episode of their iHeartMedia podcast.“Now we are no strangers to pushing back against imbalances and abuses of power — it is the very basis of our podcast here,” Burton Morgan, 41, said while discussing the strike’s effect on the podcast at the beginning of the episode. “So, we’re reclaiming a really pivotal chapter in our lives.”Bush, 41, explained that they’ve been conversing with several union reps to figure out if they can continue the podcast.

Actors aren’t supposed to be promoting past or present work, but podcasters are contractually obligated to continue their recordings, leaving them in a gray area.“We’re in full support of the strike as well as the writer’s strike, and we’ve checked in personally with multiple representatives and have had our teams do the same so that we maintain an active line of communication,” the actress, who played Brooke Davis for nine seasons on the teen drama, shared.Lenz (who portrayed Haley James Scott on the show), 42, chimed in, “Right now, we have been given the green light to honor our iHeart contract — but we are taking this walk down memory lane in an old school way and encourage you to do the same.

Bust out those DVDs, OK? We’ve signed thousands of box sets, so we know you have them. Get together with friends and have watch parties like we did back in the day.”Burton Morgan, who played Peyton Sawyer for six seasons of the CW hit, announced that the podcast will highlight