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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just watched season 9 again and would be disappointed if the show was to end. the new cast are brilliant and think they should continue on a few more seasons!
only just found outabout the series 9 scrubs – watched everyone of em twice! it was better than seasons 6 and 7! Keep it going ABC!
Scrubs was our absolute favorite. Bill Lawrence created a show with humor I could totally relate to. I didn’t think med school version would be my cup of tea, but turns out I loved it. I need more!
Scrubs med school is amazing and they should make it I new series!!!! I love med school!!
I think that scrubs is the absolut best and coolest show in the world!
I miss J.D and all the old characters I even miss the old building sacred heart ):
But I also think that the new group is great and with Dr. Cox and Turk it will also be great and awesome and fantastic… And I heard that if the show will go on to season 13 Zach Braff said that he will come back and be J.D again…
SO DON’T GIVE UP SCRUBS! IT WOULD BE STUPID!
They should keep going give the new group a chance. Watch them grow. We did it for the first ones!!
hope they bring back med school
im going to miss scrubs abc seems to drop any thing unique like Pushing Dasies
I really really liked Scrubs a lot!
Watched it from season 3 and it was the best ever!
I hope they bring back scrubs 2.0 (new cast) because that would also have been a great show to watch.
scrubs is puar wild
I miss scrubs : <
They should make season 10
Season 9 was good 🙂
just listen to every one and make a season 10 it will be great and show it in the uk
i love scrubs they need to make another one, but i dont mind if jd is in it as long as turk and doctor cox is in it!!!!!!!!!!!!
they should bring scrubs back its amazing!!! but the whole show is about JD so its not gona work if JD isn’t in it.. and thts why it was so JD obsessed, anyways who doesn’t love JD? <3 fiitted 🙂