Yahoo Lifestyle Bill Lawrence Confirms Scrubs Revival Will Not Erase the Events of Season 9
Scrubs 2.0 will not chalk the original series’ med school detour up to one of J.D.’s daydreams.
Unlike Roseanne and Will & Grace, which found clever ways to erase their divisive finales from series canon once they were revived, ABC’s in-the-works Scrubs redux will stay true to the developments of Season 9, which shifted gears (and locations) and focused on a quartet of newbies, including Season 8 holdover Eliza Coupe.
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“I thought some of those actors and actresses were really starting to find their footing. Kerry Bishé, [Michael] Mosley, Dave Franco… they’re all still working for a reason. They’re all very good,” Scrubs mastermind Bill Lawrence tells TVLine. “I’m not against seeing those people [again], and I think it would be fun to have one of them zip by, but that spinoff, if you remember, was supposed to be a med school, and those people that were going through it would then go off into the world and land as physicians in places here, there, everywhere. What I think we will really be focusing on is a place where some of our core regulars” — AKA the OGs — “still work as physicians. And who are the new interns or residents at that hospital?”
Lawrence — who’s currently promoting Season 2 of Apple TV+’s Shrinking — also confirms that the Scrubs revival will not magically find our favorite docs working at Sacred Heart again. In the Season 9 premiere, J.D. revealed that the hospital had been demolished — and in real life, the North Hollywood Medical Center, which is where Scrubs filmed through Season 8, had also been torn down: “I drove by there two days ago, and it’s beautiful condos now. I actually know somebody that lives there now. Cool buildings!”
The impetus for returning to the world of Scrubs, Lawrence says, is to see if J.D.’s life turned out the way he expected: “I wonder if J.D.’s dreams,” as envisioned in the Season 8 finale, “all really did come true. That, to us, is interesting.”
TVLine will keep you posted if/when ABC hands Scrubs 2.0 a series order. In the meantime, revisit the Season 8 finale’s closing montage below. (With reporting by Nick Caruso)
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