Scrubs is formally scrubbing again in.
An extended-discussed revival of the 2000s comedy sequence has landed a sequence order from ABC, the place it’s been in improvement since December 2024 — although sequence creator Invoice Lawrence and members of the solid have talked about reuniting for years earlier than that. Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke, who starred within the unique model of the present, have signed on to hitch sequence lead Zach Braff within the revival. All three can even be government producers on the present, which is about to premiere within the 2025-26 season.
“Scrubs means so very a lot to me. So excited for the possibility to get the band again collectively,” Lawrence (Shrinking, Ted Lasso) stated in a press release.
Scrubs ran for 9 seasons from 2001-10, the primary seven on NBC and the ultimate two on ABC. The present adopted intern John “JD” Dorian (Braff) as he progressed via his medical profession alongside finest good friend Chris Turk (Faison) and his on-and-off girlfriend and eventual spouse Elliot Reid (Chalke). The unique sequence additionally starred Judy Reyes, John C. McGinley, Neil Flynn and Ken Jenkins.
The revival’s logline reads, “JD and Turk scrub in collectively for the primary time in a very long time. Medication has modified, interns have modified, however their bromance has stood the take a look at of time. Characters new and previous navigate the waters of Sacred Coronary heart with laughter, coronary heart and a few surprises alongside the way in which.”
Lawrence has stated for a number of years that he’d wish to revive Scrubs, saying at an ATX Competition session in 2022 that “For those who ever have an excuse to work with folks you wish to spend time with anyway, run to it.” One complicating issue is that Scrubs comes from Disney’s twentieth Tv (or, extra precisely, its predecessor Touchstone TV/ABC Studios), and Lawrence now has an total deal at Warner Bros. TV. He negotiated a carve-out in that deal to function an government producer on Scrubs, however he received’t be the showrunner.
These duties will go to Tim Hobert and Aseem Batra, each of whom labored as writers and producers on the unique sequence (Batra additionally guest-starred in just a few episodes). They are going to government produce with Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer of Lawrence’s Doozer Productions, Braff, Faison and Chalke.
The addition of Scrubs additionally bolsters ABC’s comedy roster, which at the moment solely contains Abbott Elementary and the Tim Allen-led Shifting Gears.
Braff is repped by CAA, Vary Media companions and legal professional Ken Richman; Faison, by UTA and Fuller Legislation; Chalke, by UTA, Untitled Leisure and Johnson Shapiro; Hobert, by IAG and Jared Levine; and Batra, by WME and Bruce Gellman of Hansen Jacobson.