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 that med school is next generation scrubs, and JD is a MUST as a teacher along with cox and others, ending saddens me, but it was the best show i’ve ever watched
I think its depressing to think there wont be anymore scurbs.. this is an intelligent , unique and witty comedic tv show that gives good connecting life lessons that people actually use. im be bummed to think that my absolute favorite show wont be airing and giving the best of the day kind of laughs. the humor is incredible and the characters are all unique and just like people we all know it our life.
i think it is insane to cancel the show beacause is awesome.. and the 9th season “med school” is awesome.. i would love to see at least one more season…
Dude I loved this show… But season 9 sort of sucked. Why get rid of JD? I think it shouldnt have been cancelled. I miss you…
i think it should contineu but with new caracters execep doctor cox its amazing still is a great show and i just got crushed when the show ended
season 8 had and awsome ending and then they killed it with a ninth season. i love scrubs but i loved it a whole lot more before i saw the ninth season
What the H – E – DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS?? If they were gonna end it, season 8 had the PERFECT ending. I was hyped that they decided to do season 9. I watched every episode of season 9 and they never EVER once had Carla in it … Janitor “quit”, they didn’t show JD and Elliot having the baby, and Jordan was only in 1 or 2 episodes? Really? THEY KILLED THE COMIC RELIEF THEN WONDERED WHY THEY HAD SUCH LOW RATINGS?? Seasons 1 – 8 … AWESOME WITH THE PERFECT ENDING!! Season 9 – BARELY watchable AND NO BABY!!… Read more »
They could definitely get onto another station. I only started watching scrubs in the last four years and I went back to the first episode and got caught up and I feel in love with the characters and the series was amazing and the med school was okay and I would thoroughly enjoy it if they extend it just for another season… Im not sure but if they can manage to get 4.5 million people to watch one episode it must of been a great series.
wanted to see what happen next season 9 didnt end right for me it could been better
I hated the new college setting at first but eventually it grew on me and I learned to deal with it. However I personally think It would have been much better if they kept the Janitor! AND MORE IMPORTANTLY obviously they are gonna loose views if they cancel the main character!!!! IDIOTS!!!! I mean what the (beep) haha but seriously they could have ended with him GETTING HIS HUG!!!!! i mean honestly that just angers me! I watched it late on netflix and just finished the series…I was in love with it untill the ending and the last episode nearly… Read more »
i loved the show , JD Elliot , dr cox ,Turk it really sad 🙁 i want more of JD!!i really loved the show everything about it only last season was not so because jd was less in it 🙁 i wish they just could go on and on really loved the show and the music in it aswell the life lessons
HAHAHAHAHAHAH Huchh is crazyyyyyyyy LOVE ITTT
i am crushed , i loved the show , JD dr reed , dr cox ….. i am soo sad they cancelled it …..i cant get over it … no more superman….
I feel that if they were going to bring it back they needed a completely new cast apart from Dr Cox. Everyone else had moved on and rightly so, i love scrubs but the ninth season was disappointing that they didn’t start fresh. Bring J.D back for a few episodes was a good idea but was not what the show needed.
I think season 8 had a great finale. If they were going to continue there they should have continued down the path that they have been. All of the seasons and shows made sense because they continued the previous story and then season 9 was just too much. If they would have kept everything the same (hospital, character’s, ect.) and wanted to put closure to 8 years of good work they should have had J.D. get married to Blonde chick as finale of season 9 and put some good episodes in between. Doesn’t matter what it would have worked. Loved… Read more »
you mean blond DR. acording to janitor haha and ya they should have done that and let jd get his stupid hug!