One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected: According to insiders, it’s highly likely that only one of these series will survive. Given that Life just started, the CW suits are giving it a bit more time before making the call. OTH has been averaging 2.5 million viewers on Monday nights (the same as Smallville, but Smallville faces less pressure on Fridays). Life Unexpected has been holding on to OTH’s audience fairly well—thanks in part to ever-dropping rival Heroes, which just wrapped its season early. (Thanks, heroic pals. Save the foster child, save the world!)

Fans already have launched a petition to save One Tree Hill right here. We just caught up with OTH’s Shantel VanSanten (Quinn) at the Jill Stuart fashion show in NYC, and she said she’s not giving up hope anytime soon. “I know that a lot of us have been signed on for one more year,” Shantel told us. “And I feel like there’s a lot that’s due to our stories. I don’t feel like we’re ready to end. I feel like there’s so much unfinished business, and I’m really, really hoping that we’ll get another year.”