Sixteen years later Scrubs Zach Braff and Donald Faison have come to an end once again as the comedy returns for a revived 10th season.
The return comes after years of hype — as well as rewatches of the stars’ podcast Fake doctors, real friends and their successful commercials for T-Mobile — but even Braff was shocked by the result, admitting at the premiere in Los Angeles on Monday, “I never thought [a revival] It would be prime time on ABC, 8 p.m., and I thought maybe we’d do a little movie or a miniseries or something. This is the glorious embodiment I could have daydreamed about.
Bringing the show back was no easy task, due to the convoluted way it ended. The first seven seasons aired on NBC, but moved to ABC for the eighth season. This was expected to be the final season of the series, and would even conclude with an episode titled “My Finale;” It then ended up returning for a controversial ninth season, with several new characters, a new setting, and Braff only appearing in a few episodes.
Braff confirmed to Hollywood Reporter For the revival, “we decided to pick up where we left off with season eight,” and ignore the events of that ninth season, which “[creator] invoice [Lawrence] He says all along that it was supposed to be a spinoff, and wasn’t really in the OG canon Scrubs“.
Faison noted that Braff’s rewatch podcast ended up becoming a quest for the new show, and “we really figured out what we liked; the fans told us what they liked, and they told us what they didn’t like. We were very honest with ourselves about the things we were watching and how we were doing. Season 9 was like, ‘What were we doing?'” And towards the end Scrubs“In the original run, we kind of went off the rails, brought everything back to reality and grounded the show a little bit,” he said with the revival.
Original stars Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, and John C. McGinley also returned, with Chalk noting that “one of the craziest parts of this experience was walking onto the set,” where the Sacred Heart Hospital set was recreated exactly as it originally looked. As for whether they’ll have eight (or nine) more seasons this time around, Braff said: “I think it’s all up to the powers that be at Disney, so we’ll see. We hope so, and we’d love to do it. We’re having a good time.”
Scrubs It premieres Wednesday on ABC, and streams the next day on Hulu.
