Summary Bill Lawrence confirms plans for a Scrubs reboot on TV.
The series would feature returning cast members along with new interns.
Lawrence’s close relationships with cast members may ensure a successful return to Sacred Heart.
Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence confirms plans for the sitcom to return to TV. Airing from 2001 to 2010 across nine seasons, the sitcom follows a group of friends as they progress through their medical internship, learning important life and career lessons as they become fully-fledged and experienced medical professionals. While Scrubs stood out for its slapstick humor and surrealist daydream sequences of the cast’s inner thoughts, the series also had a heart and sincerity that tackled medical struggles respectfully.
Over 14 years after viewers checked out of the second Sacred Heart hospital, Lawrence opens up to LadBible about a Scrubs reboot. Despite the passage of time since the series ended, Lawrence is incredibly eager to return for a revived series, revealing not only would he like to begin work within the next six months, but that he would also like to introduce a new cast alongside the legacy cast’s stories as they face today’s medical challenges. Check out Lawrence’s full explanation below:
Yeah, you know, I’m really candid about it. We’re definitely going to do it, just because we’ve all been enjoying hanging out. Look, there’s no huge drive because everybody’s successful, and I think the show was on for like, 72 years, but the on the other hand, medical people over here right now are very heroic to me. It’s been a tough road, and no one’s becoming a doctor right now to get rich here in America, and we’ve all been hanging out and talking. So I’m open to it. I’m open to it, and I don’t want to do it as a movie, but I’m definitely open to doing a couple more years of that show. It would not only be fun to see where the characters I used to love are now, but also to see what a young doctor nowadays looks like, as far as the kids coming in behind them, you know. So we’ve been talking a lot about it, and I think we’ll figure it out in the next six months or so what we want to do. I’m just busy too, man, in a great way.
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Lawrence will need to consider season 9’s lessons and strike a better balance.
While Lawrence has always been somewhat confident that Scrubs could return, having kept in close contact with the cast, he isn’t the sole creative hoping for a revival. Donald Faison, who played surgeon and later university teacher Christopher Turk across all 9 seasons and co-hosted the Fake Doctors, Real Friends rewatch podcast alongside friend Zach Braff is also a firm believer in an inevitable return. However, despite the enthusiasm, Lawrence’s plans may introduce an obstacle that led to the show’s cancellation initially.
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With Scrubs season 9, the series not only made its way to a newly constructed Sacred Heart, but divided its attention between the remaining longtime cast and a fresh-faced class of interns. While it passed the torch gracefully to a new lead and laid the groundwork for a new structure to mixed success, season 9 failed to balance the show’s legacy and a new frontier, with the series’ lowest viewership leading to its cancellation. As such, should Scrubs make one more return, Lawrence will need to consider season 9’s lessons and strike a better balance.
Regardless of whether Scrubs’ potential reboot may face familiar challenges, it is clear that Lawrence is eager to bring the show back. Not only is it clear the showrunner has a vision, but his good relationships with many cast members may make their returns guaranteed. As such, with Lawrence ready to begin work within the next six months, viewers may see an announcement of Sacred Heart reopening its doors once more.
Source: LadBible