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 think it was a really bad ideá to change the show from being a regular hospital to a med school.. And by not having JD or the Janitor around also made the series really suck.. LIKE COME ON— eight seasons of scrubs with everything seen through JD´s eyes—you cant change that.. and Scrubs would not have lost ratings and viewers if they made episodes of scrubs like all the others episodes.. This show is not only comedy, but also includes lifelessons withing love and friendsship.. And when you have followed this gang(JD, Turk, Carla and Elliot) you cant just… Read more »
Great show too bad it’s over. I really think that they did a mistake by changing so much so fast in the show.Anyway why get rid of the Janitor? he was a such great character.
why would they do that as what some other people have said its all about money never mind that it actually had brilliant actors and a decent story line to it and teaches you about everyday life the big ceos decide to pull it.Its a real shame because it had so much left undone and left open for another season to leave it the way it was. Nobody really cares about quility anymore its all about quintity shame on you Tv networks >!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scrubs was one of the few television programs that I actually watched. I was apprehensive about Season 9 and the switch to the medical school; however, the new cast was settling into their roles quite well. I was looking forward to seeing more guest stars, and also seeing some of the old cast coming back. I am very sad to see that it was cancelled.
ABC definitely should not have cancelled scrubs. I only started watching the ninth season a few days ago and saw how hilarious, realistic, and enlightening this show could be. It possessed great life struggles and lessons that we can all learn and relate from. Although i have not seen the previous seasons, I would assume that it was just as funny if not better than the final season. The only thing i thought Season 9 of Scrubs should have had more of is Zach Braff’s character shown more, mostly because he is the main character. I enjoyed the new med… Read more »
WHY??? That was my absolute favorite tv show in the whole world i really liked season nine it was fantastic all my friends and family watched it took please decide to do a season 10 that would make my life!!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
i think they should make a new season because the med school ones were crap and the others ones where great
I feel like making another season after they already had a big finale was ridiculous. It wasn’t even the same at all. The whole feel of the show was different and most the regular characters weren’t on there. I did not like the 9th season and after only a couple episodes didn’t watch it again. I think they should have left it at 8 and let us keep the awesome Scrubs the way it was… instead they ruined it with the last season. I love the old scrubs! Not the stupid med students. ( No offense to the actors. It… Read more »
Oh, why?? It was the best series ever, and I just started to like that new crew (whatching them on german TV).
Damn….
This sucks!! I love my Scrubs!! It is makes me happy when I am sad!
please bring srubs back!!
Why? Scrubs is the best serie ever! Is like drugs if you start with it, you can’t stop. They must make an other season. But the last season (9) is worse compared to the other seasons. So maybe is it better this way.
too bad abc is filled with ignorance, when they said they had 4.5 million viewers and decide to cancel something it truly shows how the world and art truly revolves around money. me being a musician and knowing musicians see the reality when anyone with u-torrent can obtain an illegal copy of our art??? realize that the old cast was getting old and so was the old setting. the end of season nine left a lot unfinished and some other company with a lot of money maybe the channels that play old scrubs episodes today can offer up a little… Read more »
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did they cancel it they should deffinetly do a season ten !!!!
this is a joke scrubs is is more than a siitcom to me it teaches you very important life lessons mybe if the writers and ABC stop worrying about rating droping should have concentrated more on inproving the seasons maybe scrubsould still be on t.v. so don’t blame the actors or the poor rating of the show.