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ABC Orders Ninth Season Of SCRUBS And Closes New Deals With Returning Stars Braff, Chalke, Faison, McGinley, Flynn!!
I am – Hercules!!
It looks like "Scrubs" may have more lives than "According To Jim" after all!
The busy James Hibberd over at the Hollywood Reporter relays that a ninth season of the medical sitcom has been ordered, with Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke coming back for six episodes. Co-stars Donald Faison, John C. McGinley and Neil Flynn have also closed deals to return (contingent, one assumes, on their pilots not being picked up in the coming week).
No word yet on how many episodes have been ordered, nor if the sitcom will morph into a studio-audience show (as rumored).
ABC announces its 2009-2010 plans Tuesday.
Find all of Hibberd’s story on the matter here.
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Super weak
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Continuing after the finale...without the whole cast...and they're actually thinking of adding a studio audience?!
I don't think I could be more empathic about a) what a fucking horrible idea this is and b) avoiding this show now.
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This is like giving a perfectly sane man a lobotomy or retracting the Emancipation Proclamation. The slow death of the laugh track has been a renaissance in television history. Who's idea was this?!!
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a ninth season could be kick ass provided they get back to what made the show good to begin with.that equal part drama and funny is what we need.But i have serious doubt that itll happen.But I can be optimistic....oh and as queer as it is,5th suckas!
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While season 8 was a vast improvement over 6 & 7, Scrubs is over. The level of humor in the first 5 seasons isn't there anymore, the actors look like they want to do other things. Still I don't mind watching, as long as it's funny! With a capital fun.
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i dont believe it!!! big smile all day!
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There's no way there will be a laugh track and studio audience. That's why it says rumor. It would be the last nail in the coffin and make it the worst last season for a show since Roseanne or the X-Files. I have really liked Scrubs for it's entire run. It's always done a good job of bringing in new cast members at the right time and I figured it could work by ushering out most of the old cast in favor of the interns - like the rumor that has been floating around for a lot longer than the new one has claimed. It's going to be a bit anti-climatic though. The season finale would have made for a perfect series finale. It also would have been the perfect note for ZB to leave on.
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Perhaps it's because the girlfriend can watch Scrub marathons without the slightest move off the couch,but outside of Thirtysomething, I can't think of a show so smug that George Clooney's cloud would wretch with jealousy.
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Look, I love the show, even though it's a shadow of its former self. But it's over, seriously. We got the Janitors name. We got a nice wrap up episode. People said their goodbyes.
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This show blows, for all the reasons he surmised. Also, it's not funny.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!! SCRUBS RULEZ!!!!
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Scrubs is great BECAUSE it's a one camera show. it's what allowed TV to morph into The Office and 30 Rock and things like that. it was the originator!bah!!
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come on, they made a whole episode that made fun of that very concept. they wouldnt then go and do it themselves. and continuing without J.D. is pretty retarded, this was HIS show, HIS story, HIS experiences. i mean he was a constant voiceover and every episode started with "My". you dont get rid of the main character, didnt X-Files teach tv-hollywood anything?
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anyway, i also wanted to mention what others already have, i am a fan and love the series but its time is done. 8 seasons is long enough, that finale woulda made a fine series finale.
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Better Off Ted is picked up too, right? A show with actual life left in it.
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Other sitcoms really just don't understand this...
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A spin off would be better because JD is gone. As Bouncy X said this show was about JD. This won't work. What will remain? Grumpy Dr. Cox? Glenn the Janitor and his happy adventures with Lady? Ted's rise to power? Turk loses his other ball? For Scrubs to work it would need a new crop of characters. And a serious infusion of new concepts. This is a bad idea. better to bank on Better Off Ted.
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I erased as much from post season 5 as possible from my mind.
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say what you want....but besides Arrested Development and Chappelle Show a few years ago Scrubs is the only current show I had to own on DVD...but new season should be set up as a spinoff/continuation like Mayberry RFD was to Andy Griffith Show.A.G. came back for a few episodes (as well as Don Knotts) to help transition...this could be the same for Zach Braff
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Portia de Rossi is fantastic! As are the two scientist guys. I'd watch for those Veridian Dynamics ads alone.
As for Scrubs, do a spin-off and don't call it Scrubs anymore. Because it's not Scrubs anymore. It's over. Let it go. Make a spin-off, call it Sacred Heart or The S.H. or something, and hope it turns out more like Frasier and less like Joey. -
thought/wished it went out like a champ, but now that's back it'll be on the ol' DVR rotation
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I really never got this show. It's funny, but it makes me want to cut myself at the same time. Blecch I don't watch it.
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tweeted by Ausiello.
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Like it was noted above just for the veridian ads alone they need to renew the show.
Scrubs thank you but your run is over and it's been over for about four seasons.
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Seriously, a studio audience? It will kill the shows vibe and ruin the chemistry.. Keep it the way it is if you're going to bring it back.
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May 15, 2009 11:25:09 PM CDT
They could turn Scrubs into a serious drama/soap in the vein of
by dailysportspages
Scrubs + Greys + ER = Sacred Heart?
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May 15, 2009 11:28:55 PM CDT
Because there were SO many unanswered questions...
by nasty in the pasty
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. . . but it has faultered the last few seasons. I could only hope they end it all on nice note not struggle through another season.
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The 9th season's wackier, meta feel makes it my favorite. I realize a lot of fans prefer the middle seasons, but I prefer when things were at their most idiosyncratic. And that's unusual for me. Scrubs, for example, is a show that did not handle "getting wackier" very well at all. Perhaps Seinfeld's success was due to its lack of pathos? I don't know.
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Each episode of the show had basically the same template which they rarely deviated from, yet they still made it work for 8 years, and even though the last year was a little weak, it wasn't terrible. I liked the new interns (especially 'Jo') and wouldn't mind seeing it continue with them, but NOT as a 'filmed in front of a studio audience' show.
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Because I'm not Bill Lawrence. Stupid typo...
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Gotta milk the franchise for all its worth, but geez, just let it go...
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Jerry Seinfeld pissed off the guards, so they sent him to a maximum security prison: OZ.
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That was a good ending to the show. Why would they want more?
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After two false series finales the gang realizes they are the undead and cannot be killed.
As long as there are other series that Scrubs can feed off of, it will persist. You can thank Pushing Daisies for season 9 . BRAINS!!! -
This has to be a joke. More Scrubs I can handle, even though it's unnecessary, but a laugh track? Please Xenu no.
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And my hatred for it. I don't need the writers to tell me when to laugh. If they have to then they fail. One of the reasons I love Scrubs, The Office, 30 Rock, Hell, even Earl is that I get to choose when to laugh and not be told when to. If Scrubs goes to a studio audience I'm done with it.
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May 16, 2009 4:59:10 AM CDT
Bill Lawrence is a great writer, but he must learn to let...
by derlanghaarige
...a series die when it's the time. I'd love to see more Scrubs, but this has a "Spin City starring Charlie Sheen and less than the half of the original cast"-feel all over it.
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I thought he said he didn't want anything to do with a season 9? I see his name isn't mentioned. The show is over for me, I stuck with it and enjoyed it but they said that if ever the Janitor revealed his name then it would be finished.
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That he just can't put all of the crew out of work now. It's tough out there and if abc wants to keep paying them he can't say no because his crew need the work.
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Man, way to lose to Yahoo! News on a steady basis. Of course they got it from Hollywood Reporter. Or at least another trade. Maybe Perez Hilton broke the story. Nevertheless, great, timely job as always. Ass.
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That would be an abortion.
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May 16, 2009 8:09:24 AM CDT
Well, it's honorable that he tries to keep his crew working.
by derlanghaarige
But I think Scrubs with a new cast would be MUCH easier to swallow as spin off and not as continuation of the original show. So this is your last chance to call it "Scrubs: The New Guys" or "After Scrubs" or something like that and call it a brand new show.
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Translation: "My wife Christa Miller won't cut her botox expenses in this dreadful economy, so I have no choice but to grind out more insipid material for the sake of the marriage."
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I think they Jumped the shark this season.
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Please don't poke the carcass....
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Christ, don't do that. They can't actually do that, right? It would be ridiculous.Technically, the ending was a "J.D. is leaving" ending. So they allowed for it to continue. But it would be kinda weird to continue it. I mean, I thought it wasn't even doing that well. I kinda like one or two of the new intern characters, but losing J.D.'s narration alone will make the show feel weird.
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is stupid, and everyone involved, from the writers to the lead actors, realize that and have seemingly stopped trying. Every dimension of this once satisfying diversion is now really, really boring. Keep the crew employed if you can, but jeesh.
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i noticed a few of you mentioned that we found out the janitors name so that meant the shows over, but right after J.D. leaves another employee came over and said hey tony (i think, or tom maybe) and the janitor said hey. so we still do not have his name. now i am not advocating another season by any means, i actually think that the last episode the other week was probably one of the most fitting endings i've seen to a show. i feel it captured the essence of eight seasons perfectly, and i wouldn't have had it end any other way. will i watch a season 9? probably...but it'll never have the same spark as the show had before.
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...is Neil Flynn. They had established that the janitor was the actor who played the cop who got killed in the subway in "The Fugitive". How could his name be anything but?
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or he could have been lying about being the guy who was in The Fugitive just to mess with J.D. some more. possible?
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Didn't Flynn guest star as a Janitor called Glen in a cartoon??
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But it needs to end. The 8th season finished up nicely. Let it eternally rest in repeat heaven.
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Good sendoff for the series already done, and now is the time to end it.
Admittedly I don't mind seeing more of that Eliza Coupe chick, but as someone already said, far better as a spinoff.
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Then again, ABC really has nothing else to better to put on than crappy shows that other networks canceled.
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Or a studio audience? Hell, it's not even first in recent memory. Malcolm in the Middle didn't tell you where to laugh, and neither did Curb Your Enthusiasm. Scrubs barely beat Bernie Mac to the air as it is. First my ass.
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because the wholy style of the show will have to change pretty much. Think about it....most episodes are narrated by JD and a lot of the fantasy stuff is from him. Sure they have the episodes that don't feature him and they still seem to get by fine......but full seasons with only a few times showing JD will mean they have to figure a new way to present the show.
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Then it went doooowwwnhill.
How many features has Zach Braff been in recently?
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This show had a perfect ending and a great run. It's time to let it go. I refuse to watch a studio audience incarnation of what was a great show.
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Scrubs and According to Jim. Also, no studio audience.
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I don't understand these ridiculous attachments people develop for TV shows. If your favorite show is cancelled, move on with your life. Find something else to do.
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Wow.
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Just to let everyone know how much you dislike the show? seems to me that kind of posting is more indicative of moronic mind states that want everyone to dislike things they do, fuck off elsewhere.
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If you're going to mention single-camera sitcoms without laugh tracks, don't forget "Parker Lewis Can't Lose." Or "The Simpsons."
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