New-look Scrubs to debut
Posted By BILL HARRIS, SUN MEDIA
Posted 2 months ago
If only all hospital patients defied death as effectively as Scrubs.
The irreverent, quirky, clever and consistently at-risk-of-cancellation medical sitcom has as many lives as a cat. Season No. 9 -- seriously, folks, it has been around that long -- kicks off Tuesday, Dec. 1 on ABC.
This is a new-look Scrubs, though, as series creator Bill Lawrence explained.
"This is a completely different show but with some of the same characters," Lawrence said.
"It is tonally the same. We want to keep the Scrubs brand. But I would say it's a little bit like The Paper Chase, with a hospital setting."
After leaving for a job at another hospital, Dr. John "J. D." Dorian (played by Zach Braff ) returns to Sacred Heart's adjacent medical school. J. D. is a professor alongside Chris (Donald Faison), Perry (John McGinley), Denise (Eliza Coupe) and Bob (guest star Ken Jenkins).
The old gang inspires and aggravates a new class of med students, including wide-eyed Lucy (Kerry Bishe), reclamation-project Drew (Michael Mosley) and rich pretty-boy Cole (Dave Franco).
J. D., by the way, now is married to longtime sweetheart Dr. Elliot Reid (guest star Sarah Chalke) and the happy couple is expecting a baby. Braff is sticking around for only a handful of episodes, to help launch the new Scrubs. The focus now largely will be on Biche's character, Lucy.
"Zach's there for the first six or eight episodes," Lawrence said. "John and Donald are regulars. The only person who survived of the new people (from the eighth season) was Eliza Coupe, who is a regular, too. I really like her, I thought she did well with this stuff. But 80% are new actors."
