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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This show was amazing for the first 7 seasons. 8 was eh, but still relevantly good but season 9 just totally sucked baseballs. I want the old characters, the new one’s did no justice to the show. And when I mean I want the old characters back, I mean the way they were before (i.e. JD)
I think they should make a season ten but have it at the hospital and have all the original characters because it really is not scrubs with out them because season 9 was awful and bring back jd but ither then that they should make a season ten
I liked all the other seasons but season 9 sucked they should have have left all the originalcharecters and they should have left it at the hospital i think they ruined the show but they should make a season 10 and make it at the hospital and have all the original character and bring back jd
I love scrubs, the new med school season was not as good as the other seasons. But I still loved it and would be very grateful if the seasons would continue as unlikely that is.
Till now, I’m still hoping for a season 10. Or a Season 0 where Turk and JD are still med students.
They should have just ended it at season 8. It was great while it lasted, but the same old jokes just began to become boring. Season 9 wasn’t necessary.
i love scrubs and i expect new episodes now
Yeah I love Scrubs, it is one of my favorite TV series. It was a little different with all the new characters in season 9 but it grew on me and really started to like it! They ended way too soon and need to keep making seasons to finalize the series. Nobody wants it to end like this and I know that it would do better now that people are interested in finding out what would happen next in the med school! So please make another season because I love this show too much to now watch more!!!!!
i loved this show but i missed ted in the last season, he was the best at all.. at least sam lloyd shoud get his own show
i know is quite late to post any comment but really scrubs with out the original characters is not scrubs i mean we want to know what their lives end up to i mean we kind of figure out but that is what we love on the show the carachters them selves, this show was like the funniest up to season 7, on the 8 it was kind of a huge diference with the new interns but still funny ans season 9 is a huge change i mean they were supposed to love being doctors and now they changed to… Read more »
I love scrubs ot must come a season 10!!!!!!!!!!!
There should totally be a season 10 of scrubs, even without jd or alot of the original characters its still awesome, plus if they didnt send off some of the original people it would get tiring seeing almost the same things everyday. Viewers would probably get tired of all cox’s rants on jd and the janitor’s wierdnEss if they didnt change it. And the new med students are actually pretty funny and have good potential. As long as they sometimes bring back JD
Season 9 is just awful. It’s really not much of a show without Ted, The Janitor, Carla, and Elliot. It’s not really Scrubs without most of the original characters. It’s kind of like watch M*A*S*H with only two original characters left: Hawkeye and Hotlips.
They totally need to continue the show I loved it even without JD. I think it was a big mistake to stop the show!
Med School started well. I love the new characters, also the new Cox “victim” Dru with his girlfriend being Coxs` “friend”. At the moment we were familiar with the new characters they stop making new episodes…..that sucks. The ending of season 9 was great and I want to know and see how it goes on. The writers did a great job till the end so why stop?