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Scrubs to jump the shark

Scrubs' ninth season will take a major detour to a medical school with 60% of the cast comprising new actors.

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scrubs-faison31Scrubs is potentially “jumping the shark” (assuming it hasn’t already) with news that its ninth season will see a major shift from Sacred Heart hospital to a medical school classroom with John C. McGinley’s Dr. Cox and Donald Faison’s Turk becoming professors.

Creator Bill Lawrence likens it to the 1973 film, Paper Chase, set at Harvard.

“It’s going to be a different show. It’ll still be life-and-death stakes, but if the show is just Scrubs again in the hospital with a different person’s voiceover, it would be a disaster and people would be mad.”

Sacred Heart won’t go away altogether with students occasionally visiting. McGinley and Faison are expected to be full-time regulars alongside a quartet of new faces while Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and Ken Jenkins have agreed to make guest appearances.

Of course the renewal for the show surprised many, who did not expect it to survive in switching networks, or proceeding past the exit of Zach Braff.

One of the new cast members is planned to be a well-known actor.

Lawrence insists “half the cast, if not 60 percent of it,” will be comprised of freshmen, one of which will be more recognisable than the rest. ”

Source: EW.com

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  1. this does sound like Scrubs has become its own spin-off, sure with JD, Elliott & Carla gone (save a couple of guest appearances) it was going to be hard to carry on the show, and this sounds like a way to do it, but it should be honest enough to call it a spin-off.

    At the very least, it will mean Scrubs wont be remembered as “a show that went one season to long”, but as “a good show with a short lived spin-off.”

  2. I’d still rather watch anything that comes next with Scrubs than Two and a Half Men, even if its only half as good as the JD years of Scrubs were.

  3. One show that does need to end is The Simpsons.
    As much as I love it, there’s a time a show has to end, and the simpsons should have ended a couple of years ago.

    To correct Channel Ten promos that say “20 years on, and the simpsons are funnier than ever”
    More like “20 years on and its never been so obvious that the simpsons writers are out of ideas”

  4. As Bill has said previously, this is essentially a new show. The network is obviously too nervous to change the name and scare away viewers.

  5. I dont see them leaving the title at just – scrubs, it’ll have a prefix or suffix.
    I’m very glad that they are going to take a different approach, if they had of just essentially replaced JD with some other character – using their view point and imaginations – it would have just ruined it.
    But yeah it isnt season 9 – its a spinoff.

  8. In response to Jimmy above – the janitor (Neil Flynn) is in a new series with Patricia Heaton about a middle class family or something. Sounds a little bit like Everybody Loves Raymond to me.

    Hopefully this new series will be better than the few years before this season just past. I think people were getting tired of JD’s imaginations.. not too sure if people were also getting sick of Dr Cox’s ramblings tho.

  14. noooooo! Cancel it, dont ruin it for us!
    “but if the show is just Scrubs again in the hospital with a different person’s voiceover, it would be a disaster and people would be mad.” – possibly, but creating a new show using the existing name is worse.

  16. This is the 2nd season the show wasn’t meant to come back, maybe Bill is just seeing what it will take to end the show LOL

    IMO it should have ended this season, it had a great ending why mess with that just for one more season…

    Maybe it should be Scrubs “the next generation” so a new series?

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