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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i miss JD!! =( … scrubs should continue!
can not believe they are cancelling scrubs. med school is the best. cole is the best
Even without JD this show is hilarious. I’m quite heart-broken it’s gonna stop..
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Indeed; wrong choice ABC
i thought they did an amazing job with ‘med school’ even without some of the main characters of the previous seasons. pretty bummed there won’t be a 10th. cole was the **** i laughed my ass off. wrong choice abc
Scrubs has always been a great show, and I think season 9 was great! I think the new med students are hilarious and they kept me laughing the whole show. I’m really bummed it has to end, the new characters were so awesome!
My favorite show got canceled. Wow.
I even liked the new season.
I am a big fan of Scrubs, use to watch it daily until the new cast came in. I loved the original cast plus the added interns and guest stars throughout the years except the last bunch of interns and med students. I dont know what happened but the people who picked the new cast were not for Scrubs. The med students were awful and tried way too hard to be witty. You can actually see the awkwardness during the jokes and how they did not flow. If ABC knew how to pick a good cast then Zach Braff leaving… Read more »
may we have a word of silance for a sitcom past…….
i luv jd <3<3
to bad its over , i didn't like the last Season :/
but season 8 was awesome !!!
It really does suck that Scrubs was canceled. BUT I think they should of stepped away for a while from Scrubs and came and presented it as its own show. ABC still does own the rights too Scrubs so in the Miraculous Chance that they decide to try something with it Bill Lawrence and them could try to breathe life into it in a different way.
The biggest problem with season 9 is that it was supposed to be season 1 of a spin-off, not season 9 of Scrubs. That’s what Bill Lawrence wanted to do after the amazing finale of season 8 but ABC insisted to make the spin-off season 9.
Nice show, not the same wihout J.D. but still funny.
Too bad it’s over.
I´ve seen ALOT of shows i my life, and this is one of the funniest!
Altough JD left the show, they stille mannaged to get some new carrecters to fill the show really great!
A shame the shows is over!
it is my favrite show and one of the funnest shows ive seen med school was still funny with out jd
in fact it’s my favorite show.. i can’t believe it’s gonna finish..
i hope they let it go