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‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Early Development at ABC From Bill Lawrence


Bill Lawrence is not any Superman, however he is at present creating a reboot of his beloved sitcom “Scrubs” at ABC.

Variety has discovered that Lawrence is engaged on a brand new iteration of the sequence by way of twentieth Television for the printed community. The unique sequence was produced by ABC Studios, which was lately absorbed into twentieth TV as a part of a restructuring undertaken by mother or father firm Disney.

Lawrence stays underneath his total deal at Warner Bros. Television, with that studio carving out room for Lawrence to work together with his former studio companions on “Scrubs.” According to a person with data of the state of affairs, Lawrence is not going to function showrunner on the brand new “Scrubs” ought to the mission go to sequence. At this time, no different offers are in place and no forged members are but connected.

“Scrubs” initially aired on NBC for its first seven seasons from 2001-2008, adopted by two seasons at ABC from 2009-2010. The single-cam comedy occurred at Sacred Heart Hospital and adopted the interns, docs, nurses, and the Janitor by their day-to-day lives on the hospital. The forged included Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, Ken Jenkins, John C. McGinley, and Neil Flynn.

The sequence was typically praised for its cutaway sequences tied to the daydreams of Braff’s character, J.D., with Braff additionally serving because the sequence’ narrator. The present was a lot beloved by each audiences and critics all through its run, with “Scrubs” incomes 17 Emmy nominations throughout its 9 seasons. It has maintained its reputation lengthy after it ended, with Braff and Faison launching the rewatch podcast “Fake Doctors, Real Friends” in 2020.

Since “Scrubs,” Lawrence has created or co-created exhibits like “Cougar Town,” which ran for six seasons, the vital smash hit “Ted Lasso,” “Shrinking” (renewed for a 3rd season in October) and the recently-launched “Bad Monkey” starring Vince Vaughn, with all three of the latter exhibits airing on Apple TV+.

He is repped by CAA, Yorn Levine Barnes, and Mortimer PR.

In an interview with Variety in August, Lawrence joked that one cause he started to speak a couple of “Scrubs” reboot was tied to the way forward for “Ted Lasso.”

“The neatest thing about [questions about the future of ‘Ted Lasso’] is that it changed, for a second, having to speak about whether or not or not ‘Scrubs’ was going to get rebooted,” Lawrence mentioned. “The cause that I unintentionally mentioned, ‘Yeah, I feel I’m going to determine this out the subsequent six months’ about ‘Scrubs’ lately, was as a result of I simply needed to cease speaking concerning the ‘Ted Lasso’ factor.”

Variety additionally spoke with Braff in October forward of the “Garden State” twentieth anniversary live performance, the place the actors mentioned he was “positively” on board to return to “Scrubs.”

“The concept of getting again along with my pals and doing like 10 or 12 episodes of perhaps one or two seasons, and simply laughing with everybody? That seems like a dream,” he mentioned.

Ella Bennet
Ella Bennet
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