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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it’s quite a shame scrubs season 9 in my opinion was actually one of my favorite seasons. I also very much enjoyed the new cast, i wish they would extend it.
i liked scrubs when they were in the hospital, but when they got this hair brained idea to put them in med school, i thought that was stupid, the reason people tuned in anyway was because it was funny, the med school thing was to serious. then they drop some of the actors, if your gonna have a show with that kind of success you need to STICK to the formula, that made it great, this coming from a person who owns 8 seasons and there great, i probably won’t buy season 9 see you rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
i didn’t really liked the ninth season, i’m a Big fan of this serie but Ii Love J,D and the Janitor, and when they left it’s beacame like an empty space in this serie, but i’m not OK with Canceling it, even if there are no Janitor, JD or Cox… we’ll watch it we love this serie and we can not live without this Great Serie
i really liked the ninth season, allthough it’s a shame J.D. is kind off gone. I really like Drew and Denise, who are very much like Dr. Cox and Jordan. Lucy is a good replacement for J.D. I would love it if a season 10 comes, because it the end episode from season 9, doesn’t feel like an ending.
how could they cancel scrubs. it was my favorite show on TV. i loved the life lessons at the end of the show when JD talked in the back ground. i always made sure to be home to watch a new episode
i thought the “Med School” of season 9 was amazing. i think that the way they ended the season was terrible and the fact that ther were soooooo many unaswered questions about season 9. if anything they should take the cast of season 9 and creat a “new” show based on the going ons of season 9. it was almost as if that season were a show in itself. i loved it and think that it can go places. and as a future med student i thought it was funny to see and sitcom about the life i will soon… Read more »
its sad that in portugal we only have heard about scrubs about one year ago. its beeing broadcast by fox and its about on season 6. i’ve been watching it online since as usual fox will fill scubs space with some new series. pheraps some more stargate atlantis episodes that most of us wont stand to watch. today i saw the last episode. “the thanks” and i thought to myself. they really messed up the series with this last season. when something is good you don’t change that into something diferent. you just scrach some narows and inproove it. i… Read more »
Scrubs should have ended with JD leaving. It was a perfect ending, the Med school reminds me of After m*A*S*H, the horrible show that came after M*A*S*H, they have a great show and thought that just because they brought the same characters back for a spin off it would take off. The truth is, if you have aq good thing… let it end naturally, and don’t try to resurrect it!
TV series were never my thing. Not a single TV series ever produced – yes, ever – managed to grab me. Except Scrubs. Not only have I watched every single episode, I have watched most episodes several times and I own all the DVDs. Now that the show has ended, I am going back to my old “Don’t-care-about-TV-series” self, and all that I have left to watch are the Scrubs episodes on my shelf.
I did’nt bother to read the other comments but i’ve been watching it from season one. This is by far the best show I have ever seen and I dont understand why it would get low rateings.
g’day
imo it was season 1 of [med school] not season 9 of [scrubs], and even tho it took a few eps to get into the new characters now that it looks like med has been cancelled im not happy
imagine if [scrubs] finished with the crap that was season 7 instead of the real [scrubs] that was season 8…. id call it unfinished business… [med school] now has unfinished business and need at least a few more seasons to complete itself
Cheers
I have watched Scrubs since the first episode, and i really enjoyed the 7th and 8th season, but the ninth season was extremely poor. I do hope the come back with a final last season to close the book.
I really enjoyed the new Scrubs! It took me a couple episodes to get into it, but it wasn’t long before I was looking forward to the days when I’d see a new episode pop up on my DVR. The characters are uniquely hilarious and I was just starting to love them when the show got cancelled. I didn’t even know the show got cancelled until I just now looked it up because I’ve been missing the show so much and I wanted to see when the next season would begin. I’m SO disappointed it’s cancelled. : (
Ohh man . I lived in a boarding school and Scrubs was the thing that EVERYONE loved . i mean its jokes brought people togeather !!!!!
I mean shure sad that JD left , but the heart of Scrubs is the jokes that you can use on everyday conversations !. ABC please bring back scrubs .
Well , I love watching scrubs and I watched the 9th season on my laptop ( I think its great ). They were aiming for 4.5 million and I do think that worldwide a lot of people like me would watch that show if it would air on the telly in their country. It’s too bad , but we couch patatoes will find ourselves writing comments about the next cancelation of our next show quite quickly ;p