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 have just finished watching season 9 of Scrubs and I am disappointed to not have the chance to see how things work out for the Med School cast. I know a lot of people didnt like the change, and I think Bill Lawrence should have went ahead and changed the name of the show and called it a spin off so people expected a change…I sorta felt the same way myself. But after some time passed and I watched season 9 the show had a lot of potential…the characters were just starting to become interesting and real, and although… Read more »
I LOOOOOOOOVE SCRUBS I WISH THEY DIDNT CANCELL IT
i love srubs too guys but it sorta needs to be point out that we did get our “last episode” with all the cast… last episode of season 8??
non the less i want more!!!
I would have liked to see a proper series finale as well. Although the “final” episode in a way is a proper series finale, because the series started with Zach Braff coming out of med school as his first day as a medical intern. The series ends with a new class of med students in med school, the whole thing kind of symbolizes the circle of knowledge. The whole “the whole point of gaining knowledge is to pass it on” concept. In a way at the end when they were giving thanks to the families for donating the cadaver for… Read more »
yes i think it show i love that show and ive been watching it all the season since last year
SPOILER ALERT!!! My boyfriend got “Scrubs” season 9 on DVD for Christmas this year and we just spent the last two days watching all the episodes. HOW CAN YOU JUST LEAVE IT LIKE THAT?!?! I agree with everyone else that there should be at least one more season with a proper send off for all the characters, especially since Carla was not in ANY of the season 9 episodes. The last show was nothing special and kinda just left us hanging. Disappointing really. I can understand the show being canceled due to low ratings, but ABC should REALLY REALLY make… Read more »
It took me a few episodes to get used to the med school setting and cast, But it was worth sticking with,I would like to see season 10. All good shows getting cancelled these days.
They shouldn’t have brought it back if their only intention was to change near enough everything on it. I could understand if it was still the original Sacred Heart, the original characters and original show, but it isn’t. They should have left it with JD leaving in “My Finale” in season 8. If they planned to un-cancel it, they should have at least kept it in the same set.
WE NEED A SEASON 10 THIS SHOW IS WAY TO AMAZING TO JUST END. MAKING SEASON 10 IS THE LEAST THING YOU COULD ALL DO!
Bring It Back For One More Season Make It An Evan 10 Would Love To See More Episodes But With The Original Cast In Aswel As The Season 9 Cast
They SHOULD DEFINATELY HAVE A SEASON 10. have a proper finale with all orignal characters back!!!
I think they should make final 10 season its like 10 right? full number. Everyobody should come back like for one more episode, and make it end properly. Just for the viewers, I was watching Scrubs from first episode I looove the characters , every episode has something AMAZING in it. So pleeeeease, let me say goodbye to JD Elliot Carla Turk, Cox Ted and so on.
I totally agree, just one more episode so we can get a proper goodby with the real cast of scrubs, though the med school cast is good too, it’s just not the same
I wnat there to be a season 10 but I think they started running out of ideas and people started getting bored of it but personally I think that they should make another season because a lot of people like the show. EAGLE!!!
love it, pls make a proper final episode!
i love that show and i wan to see season 10