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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scrubs is awsome and by far my favorite seasons 1-8 are sooo good and i love JD and thought season 9 was going to be rubbish but i loved it the new characters have brought it back to life
i did really enjoy the last season of scrubs, after enjoying all eight seasons and being extremely excited for the ninth season to arrive here in Australia. but i was disappointed that ABC never finished the season, or it did not seem as they did in my eyes. if it was left to the public im sure that fans of the sitcom would really like ABC to finish the series the way it should be finished rather then just leaving it at the point it is. i really do believe that these companies really need to think more about fans… Read more »
Stubid I think tht they r all good and I’m 15 and wached every on and have them all on DVD or record so tht stubid.. I likein the new episodes grrr stubid abc
i love the whole episodes of the scrubs, the cast is wonderful. The idea of making JD leaves changed the series, it should have continued with the original concept and the story line follows just like that.
I think and hope someday it (scrubs)comes back to life, i miss it alot
Hated the episodes after season 7 with a passion. It just shows what cheap ass networks do when they only pay for 1/2 the writers and an incomplete cast for each episode. The Latest Med school episodes were terrible, desperatly trying to mimic earlier work
i just watched the last episode they cant end it like that!
i love scrubs all seasons includung the 9th season they should not have stopped it!
i loved every seson of scrubs and always will but seson 9 is not as good but i still like it
I think season 9 was a great season and if ABC doesnt want scrubs let another company pick it up. I was a little upset when Zach Braff left but i think they left all the scrubs fans alittle disapointed i want to know more about J.D and Elliots relationship and i think Carla and the janitor need to come back.
I personally love every season of scrubs. In season 9 when zach left i was a little pissed and didnt think it would work but they did a great job and i really loved the season and was hoping for it to at least wrap up a year and it ended after only one semester. I really wish there was another season.
Season 9 did bring it back to life, and should have had the chance to continue.
Scrubs has allways been a great show where you cold escape into like a litle world it has been great from season 1 and to season 8 but when zach braff stopped being in scrubs then it was down hill from there..
It’s funny, I had never watched Scrubs while it was on ABC, but just recently I’ve gotten into watching the reruns on cable and I loved the 9th season. I thought the new cast was just as funny as the old cast. Dave Franco (James Franco’s little brother) is hilarious on the show. It would have been nice to see how the storyline and characters would have developed had the show continued.
Oh my god the 9th season was juste the best what the hell wher those guys thinking. I swear and I mean it that this show should not have been canceled. Eve-he-ever.
damn i loved the 9th season more then some of the seasons before.
no season compares to the first though where every damn episode had a very good conclusion on life and was still the funniest show ive ever watched.
i even think season 9 brought some fresh wind into scrubs and made it just as funny as the first seasons.
i cant believe how someone would cancel that show 🙁
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