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 loved the new cast! the should give it another season!
this sucks it was a GREAT show. one of my all time favorits.
i thought that the end of season 8 was amazing. i thought that Braff’s departure from the show was bad news for scrubs fans though. i do not see how they can even continue into a season 9 without being inside JD’s head. i dont see how they can expect to have good ratings with braff not on the show, season 9 wont be a success.
Basically I only started watching scrubs a few years ago but as time went by I was more and more drawn into the clever and truly ingenious comedy. The characters were great and the lines were brilliant! Then after seeing season 8 I was dumfounded, as I worshiped the show. I knew the characters so well they felt real, it seems sad but scrubs was a part of my Life. After crying at Zack Braff’s send off I rushed to the computer to see if a season 9 was to be made. But I found nothing . Then a few… Read more »
it is the greatest show but is no match to the old scrubs, in my opinion season 8 should have been the last season, the ending of season 8 was the best i ever seen, and to a show i really like i thought i would never think of saying that it should end, but season 9 was a completely different show that it should have ended. im sorry but scrubs should end. season 9 should be renamed into a different show. bring back old scrubs!
Scrubs was amazing it always will be and med students was great to it would make a wonderful spin off but putting as scrubs itself was a mistake truthly it can’t hold up to the amazing show scrubs is but it would make a great show by itself if not forced to compete with those standards all and all I will forever miss the show that made me laugh harder than anything else in my life most of the time and (I didn’t really cry) cry at others it was full of emotional tides and I dare to say the… Read more »
I really loved it! Season 9 was a bit different, but I did start to enjoy it!
Scrubs is awesome! don’t stop now, i’ve just got to know all new characters. med school is so cool
LOVED the interns. I think I laughed harder at Cole than anyone ever on the show!
i miss scrubs, so mutch. braff (J.D.) you cant jsut leave a show that revolved around you then expect it to keep going. gotta go find a new show as good as scrubs now. oh wait thats IMPOSSIABLE
It was awesome please more
Nooooo…please…scrubs is the best sitcom in the world…can’t stop it!!
It was great. There should be more.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I LOVED it!!!
The interns were hysterical. Cole’s lines were great and Drew and Denise were amazing as well.