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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Damn i realy loved this show… 2 stupid man grabbin some booty and become big shots in surgery and medicine!. Love them!. But if they cancel it they should have don it earlier season 8 had a great ending!. Tough it had been sad if they had cancelled it that time.. But my message from holland is, that they should come back 1 last time and finish the job for the people who loved watchin this ****
Man this sucks why would they start a new seaon that look realy intresting and than just cut it off with out even seeing how it ends i think that they should at least come back and finish reast of season 9 and make it a good ending
Dude! I was looking forward to season 10! You can’t just leave the last season with a big question! 4.5 million of us that do watch the show love it! Ugh I grew the last 4 months with JD & Turk! You can’t do this-.- if I were old enough I’d so protest down ABC family studio thing! #BRINGBACKSCRUBS ! That’s a new TT -.- #BRINGBACKSCRUBS ! Who’s with me!
If you ask me, season 8 was the grand finale of a great show. With that being said, I did enjoy season nine, but it wasn’t, as many of the people working on the show called it, Scrubs 2.0. It wasn’t the original Scrubs, so as a stand-alone show I like it (minus the two guards, they were too cliché and tacky for my taste), but find it a pity that they ended the season so abrupt and unfinished. That’s what they need, if they REALLY want to cancel Scrubs and leave the fans with a satisfied feeling, they should… Read more »
yes yes yes more scrubs please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring it back!!! Scrubs is the best show ever. And please give us a proper ending!!
after season 8 the real scrubs show ended but, i watched season9 and even though J.D. is basically gone the cast of characters is still very funny i dont think they should try and replace J.D. with the blonde med student as the main character but instead not focus on any particualr character and have them all continue for at least one more season and end it correctly like they did in season 8. Its a huge let down for Scrubs fans to end the show with season 8 then restart it with a short season 9 and cut off… Read more »
dood this sucks i love scrubs
i love scrubs and they should bring it back
I would really like the show to go on I love it and I would like to watch new episodes instead of always watching reruns
Scrubs was a very funny show. The fact of the matter being that the show ended in a cliffhanger. I think ABC should bring it back for one more final season just to close it off. Anyway, ABC, that was a FOX move. See now I am going to start calling every show that was good and got cancelled a FOX move. Because FOX is most famous for cancelling great shows. For example, Firefly, Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Dollhouse. Anyway, please ABC, do not be like FOX. At least end the show with a good ending and not with a… Read more »
ABC u Will be letting a lot of people down if u dont make another season of scrubs. You could still bring out another season and people would be so surprised that i guarantee that the ratings would go up.
it should of its a great show i follow it and now im sad
yes, and i believe that it should definitely come back after the major cliff hanger ending of season 9
We’re halfway through season 9 here in NZ. Love the new scenes and actors (esp Dave Franco). Please continue with season 10.