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 ausome I dont care about the rating everyone I know that has seen the latest season of scrubs so bring it back
I loved everything about scrubs it was my favourite tv show!!! Can’t believe they took it of air!!! Its really sad for me and a lot of my friends because we all watched it.
If Scrubs ever came back I would encourage anyone to watch it. It was that awesome!
A lot of people didn’t like the new season, and, don’t get me wrong, I definitely don’t think it was as good as the original show, but I still liked season 9. I don’t think it was fair that they canceled it after season 9, they should have either ended it at season 8, or at least given it a season 10 to see if it couldn’t get back some viewers, it was still a good show, it had a lot of potential and the writing was still there. Even though the odds of a season 10 are now pretty… Read more »
UGH! I am a long time lover of Scrubs, and I have to say that Season Nine was a complete and total trainwreck. I mean, I loved the fact that it showed Elliot and JD married and having a baby, but they pretty much cut them out in the last season. And that they totally focused on the medical interns was sooo BORING. It totally lost the total ‘Scrubs’ feel. JD and the original cast MAKE the show, so when they diverted focus, that is when the show started sucking. Either they should have continued from JD and Elliot’s relationship,… Read more »
i really like season 9, med school, i want it to continue …. scrubs is awsome, including seasons 1- 8 as well i will really miss it.
You know at first, I didn’t like the new cast. In fact, I never finished watching it on TV after like the second episode. But Netflix recently got scrubs on instant que and I decided to watch the entire series again. This time after 2 or 3 episodes the newer cast grew on me. I was a bit disappointed and confused as to why Carla wasn’t there, but overall I liked it. Then I finished to 13th episode and went to watch the next one to discover something. That was the last episode. I was completely disappointed. As everyone else… Read more »
How could they do this? It’s not right how can you leave is all hanging Yall should five it atleast one more season. J.D.’s baby isn’t even born yet. This sucks!
i thought that a new cast was awsom for the scrubs series
I loved scrubs, I thought all the characters fit their role. I lost interest with the new interns but were so stuck up. I wish they would make a movie with the old cast, the series ended way to soon.
At the very least that should do a scrubs TV Movie and give the die hard fans a little closure.
scrubs should come back it is my favorite program!!!!!!
I can’t believe there isn’t going to be a tenth season. i enjoyed watching the new med school season. i thought it was just as funny and just as interesting as the regular scrubs. the new characters played their roles perfectly. and the ending of season nine just left everything to question. whats going to happen with denise and drew and where is J.D. now? how is sam and the new born. what is carla doing and how does the new snotty kid do after switching to surgery instead of just a doctor. turk finally found a person to mentor… Read more »
Nobody seemed to be open to the concept of season 9 when it first aired but as you got further and further into the series I found myself enjoying it. The story’s became more like regular Scrubs with the added Romace storys in them aswell.
I think their should defiently be a series 10 as it seems unfair to end such an amazing show like Scrubs with a somewhat weak ending seen in series 9.
P.S The combination of Dr Cox and Drew was amazing and I throughly enjoyed watching those Charicters. 🙂
I think that the season ended so horrably that the last season should have like three more episodes for eliot to have the baby and have jd sent off for good aposed to just leaving so much of a cliff hanger i would love it
as everyone said at first they didn’t like the series but then they started to warm up i thing this new show should be given a chance because i dont think that when scrubs first started as a show had a wonderful success.so Scrubs interns should have an opportunity to create the same satisfaction that scrubs created at the viewers.