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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How can they end the series without showing J.D’s new kid
i love scrubs i have watched this show over and over again and i think i have seen every episode twice, without Zach braff the show is different but with the new cast it is still just as funny because kelso is still there and dr. cox and turk. they should have kept it going another season or two. pick this show up out of the graveyard and add season 10 in please i know i will watch it. this show needs to come back on WHO IS WITH ME !!!!
Jus ended season 9 for the 3rd time. Ready for more, wtf y’all waitin on?
please put scrubs back on the air, or at least have a final episode that raps it all up. it cant just end with turk talking about non-sense. please put it on sci fi or something else.please
I watched scrub regiously, I bought all the seasons, except for nine. I laughed I teared up, and it was a series that grew with me. The way season 8 ended was perfect. It was the right thing. And I want to make this clear, Scrubs Med School wasnt season 9 it was a new series. Well suppose to be anyways. They shouldnt of brought back JD, Cox and Turk I could understand Cheif of medicine and Surgeory. They shoulda of trashed the idea of med school and went to new interns coming in. It woulda better idea. Alot of… Read more »
Season’s 1-8 were amazing because each episode ended with a touching lesson, I had a few tears flow during those seasons. Season 9 on the other hand has more comedy and not as many emotional lessons involved, the usual balance is way off. If Scrubs [Med School] was continued and the script writers altered it to include the usual comedy/emotional balance I’m sure more of the usual audience would come back, because the cast is good…also, toning down Lucy Bennet’s whining in would be good. She is supposed to mirror J.D. and he was not that neurotic….girly, yes…neurotic, no…that is… Read more »
The 9th season was amazing.Loved it begining to end. I will always miss the show. Wish they would have continued with the med school kids but guess it wont happen. Sad day
I’m crushed that scrubs is cancelled.. please please bring it back!
Honestly, the 9th season was to me the funniest. Not sure why people wouldn’t like it, but really no show runs forever, and the cast will always be changed.
I have to say that the last season of this show was not bad, it was a nice mix up to the old formula and made a lot more sense to move onto a new wave of medschool students with the old characters as teachers because it showed how everything goes in full circle. Really nothing about the show changed, it was the same characters with different faces.
I believe watching all episodes of scrubs, yes the last season wasn’t as interesting as many of the other episodes, but thought it was still fun to watch. I did like all the new cast members, but also wasn’t that happy that a lot of the old cast members were removed in the last season. I think the show could have benefited from another season, or at least a better ending to the show were it is a real goodbye with all the cast members and not just another year finished. also the last episode should feature at least feature… Read more »
I love this show!! I’m sure I’m not the only one here that thinks they should have a season ten, bring Braff back and the janitor, and continue this awesome show!!
They really need to put this show back on. GO TO THE SCI-FI CHANNEL! They are used to having mediocre rating on a series. Yes, they have gotten a little better, but come on. No shame in watching a completely irrelevant show on Sci-Fi. Please, if anyone works or knows someone who does work there or even USA network, whatever it may be, shoot em a proposal. I am willing to invest a whopping….1, 2, 3, 4, … 16 dollars.
THANKS!!
I trully loove Scrubs! Can’t believe the show’s put down. I mean yea of C I’ll miss barbie and JD and those. But Seriosly I loved the new creapy kidycast! And especially Cole! He’s HOT! Gonna miss Scrubs
And another thing is they should have let Neil flynn in i loved the janitor!.. Who’s with me?!