When Scrubs ended after eight seasons on NBC, it concluded with one of the all-time great sitcom series finales — then it got picked up for one actual final season on ABC and had to say goodbye all over again with a new cast of characters. Now, original creator and showrunner Bill Lawrence is returning with another revival of the show.
According to Variety, the series is in development at ABC through the Disney production company 20th Television. Lawrence reportedly wouldn’t be returning as showrunner, should the series be picked up.
Plans for casting and direction for the new series have also been kept under wraps. But earlier this year, Lawrence told Deadline: “Big chunks of the creative team behind the camera, and most of it from in front of the camera, are all super invested and excited.” Key players from the original cast that could potentially make a return include Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, Ken Jenkins, John C. McGinley, and Neil Flynn.
Describing a potential reboot at the time, Lawrence added that the series would need to combine both insight into the world of medicine and a sharp perspective on how young people are navigating that world.
Lawrence previously served as the showrunner, director, writer, producer, and executive producer on the original Scrubs. It was the first and last time he occupied all five roles. Since Scrubs concluded in 2010, Lawrence found sitcom success with the six-season series Cougar Town and scored big with Ted Lasso. The Apple TV+ series has three completed seasons and seemed to come to a somewhat neat end, but might be returning for another season with Warner Bros. Television, where Lawrence has an overall deal.
“The best thing about [questions about the future of Ted Lasso] is that it replaced, for a second, having to talk about whether or not Scrubs was going to get rebooted,” Lawrence told Variety earlier this year. “The reason that I accidentally said, ‘Yeah, I think I’m going to figure this out the next six months’ about Scrubs recently, was because I just wanted to stop talking about the Ted Lasso thing.”
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