After seasons of poor ratings and several cast members moving on, ABC has finally put the Scrubs TV show to rest.
Scrubs follows hospital life as seen through the eyes of Dr. J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff). He left Sacred Heart last season but returns occasionally to help teach a new crop of med students. Others in the cast include Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Ken Jenkins, Sarah Chalke, Eliza Coupe, Kerry Bishe, Michael Mosley, and Dave Franco.
Last May, despite poor ratings, ABC decided to try to squeeze one more year out of the veteran sitcom. The reason? ABC also produces Scrubs and stood to make big money on additional episodes in syndication.
The network kicked off season nine late last year and registered a low 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demo and only 4.5 million viewers. The numbers dropped even further and ABC decided to burn off most of the remaining episodes in January.
In March, ABC aired the final episode of the season. The network’s website promoted it as the “series finale.” We contacted a representative for ABC who told us that it was a mistake but nobody was in any rush to change it.
Now, it appears that ABC has finally cancelled Scrubs after nine seasons on the air. With more than 180 episodes, the sitcom won’t be coming back.
What do you think? Should Scrubs have returned after last season’s Braff send off? Did you like the “med school” setting and characters?
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Honestly. I just finished Season 9. It was a little frustrating, since seasons 1 through 8 are all fantastic, but season 9 had that weak ‘passing the torch’ kind of opening. Towards the end when the characters started making more sense, and getting into their kind of groove, it was nicer to watch. Even then tho, the differences between season 8 and 9 are huge. ABC should have waited a little, and started a new series. That’s basically what it is, changing the hospital, and randomly turning all the characters into professors was really weird, and a jarring shift in… Read more »
This is my favorite TV sitcom of all time. Since it ended i must have watched it for about 10 times now(seasons 1-8). I just finished rewatching today again. It is a TV show that has a perfect serious-to-silly ratio. There are very few jokes that fell flat during it’s 8 year run, and most of the time it’s lighthearted. It even mocked itself and other medical series like “House M.D.” and “Gray’s Anatomy” in some episodes. It perfectly emphasized why i hated “Gray’s Anatomy” by the way. All in all, there is no recurring character that i didn’t like,… Read more »
I loved this show and I was an avid watcher from the pilot episode to the end. This to me was one of the best shows that was ever created. It was witty, funny, and well rounded. This show could bring you to tears either through laughter or ripping at your soul. They did an excellent job of casting writing directing everything. Med school the final season I wouldn’t say was the best season but I did like it I was getting very interested into the characters when they canceled it and what seems midseason. Really wish this would be… Read more »
Dam!! Iv just finished watching.. I know what people mite say about new actors coming into the series but with like the first ones will probably grow to like them . And like I read in a comment before am going to miss it’s little life lessons.. things shouldn’t just end
Just watched the show for the first time. To be honest it should have ended with the perfect S8 ending, it was perfect. I didn’t like S9 at all with the new boring characters and worse setting.
Only good parts were the interactions of the old characters like JD and Turk, JD and Elliot (glad the vision in the s8 ending turned out to be true), Dr. Cox with Turk and JD etc. rest was lacking
Season 10 was very corny!!! The girl who was supposed 2 b the leaded, she was not funny at all!!! She tried but failed!!! That’s y scrubs got canelled!!! Her love life was very stupid
This show shouldn’t of got canceled if it had 4.5 million people watching and most people feel as if the new cast was so much better and should come back for a 10th season
I just finished the last season a mins ago and I was like,dang whyyyyy would they end this awesome show,such a downer.
Ugh so sad to see you would cancel such a amazing show! Scrubs is very well liked by alot of people and this is no good news
This show actually help me out with alot of problems in my life. I’m gonna miss this show and it’s wonderful life lesson.
Season 9 sucked!!!!1-8 were awesome!
The show was great and I always got a good laugh, I hated how they cancelled it with no warning. These companies only care about money and not what the actual viewers point of view is. Very dissiapointed.