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 love Scrubs dont stop.. The new season is great..
i was crazy happy when i found out that season 9 was gonna start but i was disapointed to find out JD, carla and the janitor wouldnt be there. i would watch scrubs religiously but season 9 pretty much ruined it for me. even though i can still enjoy the 9th season it is nothing compared to previous seasons. but still i don’t want it of the air, i love the show to much.
I think the way the 9th end sucked and they shod at least compleat that sesson let the new guys make there mark then concider a 10th thow iam all ready sold on them and tbink they shod keep going chang the name to medical school and keep it going.
I really enjoyed Season 9. I think the new characters are hilarious too, and that some of the old cast is still in it, makes it great!! Even though J.D., Elliot, and Carla are gone they kept some other key characters that helped season 9 really be just as funny as all the other seasons. Scrubs is my favorite show i think they should keep it going because they kind of left us hanging!!!
The ninth season was good, but the new characters didn’t compare to the old cast.
I really think they should continue with scrubs. I mean its not the same without JD but its as if he passed it off to Lucy. The new characters they have brought are very funny. With this younger cast & a new story starting i really think ratings will pick up. It scrubs expanding & exploring different people & situations. They still have some of the original you character so still get a taste of the old scrubs. Scrubs is one of those tv shows that should continue through time.
I think Zach Braff should’ve kept going.. i mean, the guy is onloy 35 for christ sake! I WANT OLD SCRUBS BACK!!!
They should of finished it on season 8. serves them right just money grabbing and not respecting the story. Season 9 was awful.
I think they should have kept goin with the med school! And they should get the janitor back cause his show sucks anyway
Hands down, scrubs was the best show i have ever watched. The characters in season 9 were excellent, and in my opinion matched the caliber that J.D., Carla, Turk, and Dr. Cox offered. I think they should continue it and further build onto the new characters that they introduced.
I honestly liked scrubs season 9. After a few of the episodes I really grew to like the new characters. I wish they would do another season!
At the opening of season 9 I wasn’t really liking the new cast or the new environment but by the end of the season I really enjoyed everything again. Not to happy about this canceling the show, they had so much they could have done with it.
i really like Scrubs, too bad they cancelled it : (((
I think that they should have continued with the med school sacred heart. Even though it wasn’t the same without carla and jd it still had alot of great characters and a lot of good new character. I think that if they had kept going it could have picked up again! It is really sad i have spent the last 9 years of my life watching it and it has made me laugh untill i cried and cried when patients have died and Laverne died. It was like part of my life and now that it is gone, it feels… Read more »
Well ofc it’s not the same thing without Braff but I really liked the new characters and I think they should continue, I hope they change their minds and do a 10th season. Scrubs is always funny, even without Braff