The long-rumored Scrubs reboot is getting nearer to actuality. The mission is now formally in improvement at ABC from twentieth Television after overcoming the principle hurdle, securing the involvement of sequence creator/government producer Bill Lawrence.
As Deadline has reported, an settlement needed to be labored out with Warner Bros TV, the place Lawrence is beneath an unique general deal and has 4 sequence. After weeks of negotiations, the Scrubs reboot has been carved out of that pact, permitting Lawrence to develop the followup for Disney’s twentieth TV and ABC. (He received’t function Scrubs showrunner although.)
With Lawrence on board, twentieth TV is transferring in to safe the principle Scrubs authentic forged. I hear that features star Zach Braff, who performs John “J.D.” Dorian, Sarah Chalke (Elliot Reid), Donald Faison (Christopher Turk) and John C. McGinley (Perry Cox). There have been query marks round authentic forged member Judy Reyes who left the medical comedy forward of its last season. According to sources, her character, no-nonsense nurse Carla Espinosa, is factored into early plans for the reboot. The participation of Reyes, who’s a sequence common on ABC/twentieth TV breakout new drama sequence High Potential, stays unsure although sources point out she may probably do each.
“Big chunks of the inventive group behind the digital camera, and most of it from in entrance of the digital camera, are all tremendous invested and excited,” Lawrence advised Deadline in October, indicating that he would deliver again a few of his inventive collaborators for the Scrubs followup, which on the time he described as being “very near being labored out.”
Lawrence advised Deadline in the identical interview that he envisions Scrubs 2.0 as a hybrid between a revival, revisiting authentic characters a decade and a half after the unique sequence ended its run, and a reboot, revamping the unique idea with new characters because the sequence is ready to introduce new interns.
“We’ve been speaking about so much, and I feel the one actual cause to do it’s a combo,” Lawrence stated in October. “A: individuals desirous to see what the world of drugs was like for the individuals they love, which is a part of any profitable reboot. But B: I feel that present at all times labored since you get to see younger individuals dropped into the world of drugs, figuring out younger folks that go there are tremendous idealistic and are doing it as a result of it’s a calling. There’s no cliché ‘wealthy docs taking part in golf’ — that’s not what it’s anymore. So I feel that, it doesn’t matter what it’s, it might be an enormous mistake to not do as a combo of these two issues.”
Originally produced by ABC Studios, whose successor ABC Signature was lately folded into sibling twentieth Television, Scrubs ran on NBC for seven seasons after which on ABC for 2 extra. The sequence adopted medical interns J.D. (Braff), Elliot (Chalke) and Turk (Faison) in addition to different personnel on the Sacred Heart Hospital.
While getting the unique sequence’ creator, government producer and showrunner Lawrence (and his imaginative and prescient) on board was key for the Scrubs reboot to proceed with improvement and he’ll stay concerned, Lawrence just isn’t anticipated to function day-to-day showrunner if the followup goes ahead per his WBTV carveout as that might intervene together with his providers to the studio the place he has 4 sequence he has created/co-created and government produces: Shrinking, which is at the moment airing its second season, and Bad Monkey, each on Apple TV+; the upcoming Steve Carell comedy sequence at HBO in addition to international Apple hit Ted Lasso, which has been gearing up for a fourth season. Lawrence is repped by CAA and Yorn Levine Barnes.
