https://tvline.com/news/scrubs-reboot-series-order-abc-season-10-revival-cast-1235323552/
This calls for a celebratory appletini — easy on the tini.
ABC has ordered a 10th season of Scrubs that will feature the returns of Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke, all of whom are back as series regulars.
Original series creator Bill Lawrence is on board as an executive producer, while fellow Scrubs vets Tim Hobert and Aseem Batra will serve as showrunners. Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer are also EPs.
“Scrubs means so very much to me,” Lawrence said in a statement Thursday. “So excited for the chance to get the band back together.”
Scrubs first bowed on NBC in 2001, and chronicled Dr. John Dorian’s rise from intern to attending at Sacred Heart Hospital. When NBC announced that it would not renew the series beyond Season 7, ABC swooped in and picked up the show for what was conceived as an eighth and final season, complete with a series finale that creator Bill Lawrence first conceived of years prior. But ABC ultimately renewed Scrubs for Season 9, which was subtitled Med School and featured a mix of new and returning characters, with Kerry Bishé’s Lucy Bennett installed as the show’s new narrator.
The original ensemble consisted of Braff (JD), Faison (Turk), Chalke (Elliot), Judy Reyes (Carla), John C. McGinley (Dr. Cox), Neil Flynn (The Janitor) and Ken Jenkins (Kelso), while recurring players included Christa Miller (Jordan), Robert Maschio (The Todd) and the late Sam Lloyd (Ted). Season 9 additions included Bishé (Lucy), Michael Mosley (Drew), Dave Franco (Cole) and Eliza Coupe (Denise, who was introduced in Season 8).
“My hope would be that we establish where everybody from [the original show] is, whether they’re still with us at the hospital or not,” Lawrence previously told TVLine. “The only bummer [about doing the revival], obviously, is that Sam Lloyd was such a huge part of the show, and he passed on [in 2020].” But other than Lloyd, you can expect to see all your favorites back in some capacity.
Braff, meanwhile, has said that the Scrubs revival will aim to capture the same humor and heart as the original run, but showcase a version of JD who has been “beaten down by the system” over the last 15 years — an idea that Lawrence also expressed during our most recent interview:
“The hardest part is that Zach and Donald have aged,” the EP said with a laugh. “People still have that affinity, and love, for that goofy youthfulness — it’s why the T-Mobile commercials work so well. But if I saw two guys in their late 40s/early 50s doing ‘World’s Most Giant Doctor,’ and carrying each other around all the time, I would go, ‘What the f*** is going on,’ you know? To see what that [friendship] looks like at their age, and [take] a comedic look at what medicine has become since those kids started out as interns, and see how our people would look at it, deal with it, and try to remain optimistic,” is their main objective.
“I will tell you that the people I based the original characters on, like the real JD [Dr. Jonathan Doris], is still the medical advisor on the show, and still a cardiologist and a heart surgeon in L.A.,” Lawrence revealed. “But the real Elliot [Doris’ wife, Dr. Dolly Klock] is no longer in medicine because it got to be too much for her, and she wanted to do other things that are equally as philanthropic. She does this education thing for adolescents and kids now. So, to look at how the system not only changed, but how it has beaten some of these people down, and how they retain their optimism with a new wave of young characters, has really been fun."
