{"id":637928,"date":"2026-03-07T05:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/637928\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:02:17","slug":"scrubs-creator-bill-lawrence-on-revivals-ratings-renewal-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/637928\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Scrubs’ Creator Bill Lawrence On Revival’s Ratings & Renewal Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBill Lawrence<\/a> can breathe a sigh of relief \u2014 likely helped by nostalgia and curiosity, the Scrubs<\/a> reboot launched to impressive ratings last week<\/a>, amassing 11.36M total cross-platform viewers on ABC<\/a>, Hulu, Disney+ and digital platforms in its first five days, per Disney.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so happy and grateful that anybody still cares about that show,\u201d Lawrence said about the revival\u2019s performance during an interview about his latest series, Rooster for HBO, which stars Steve Carell, Charly Clive, Phil Dunster, Danielle Deadwyler and Scrubs alum John C. McGinley.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn its return after 17 years,\u00a0Scrubs,\u00a0headlined by original stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke, delivered the highest-rated comedy episode on ABC and top ABC series debut on streaming in over a year, since the premiere of\u00a0Shifting Gears.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t \u201cI love the people that are in it so much, not only the old ones because I\u2019ve talked way too much about Zach,\u201d Lawrence said, referencing the fact that Braff has been working on all of his shows, including directing an episode of Rooster. \u201cAnd Donald and Sarah, I\u2019ve been working with them a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also mentioned Scrubs OGs McGinley, Judy Reyes who are recurring on the revival, with Christa Miller set to return for a guest turn at the end of the season, and Neil Flynn coming back too.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll the new kids are great as well,\u201d Lawrence added. \u201cIt\u2019s been really cool, metaphorically, to watch not only the actors, Donald, Zach and Sarah, who were the kids, be the older people, both professionally and in real life, to a new group of young actors and actresses, but even behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence noted that the revival\u2019s showrunner, Aseem Batra, got her first job ever as a writer on the original Scrubs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe grew up and stayed on the show; she and I really connected there, so I like both those stories,\u201d Lawrence said about the revival\u2019s multi-generational dynamic on- and off-screen. \u201cI think the goal of that show was to not be a reboot but a revival and to keep it going with the next wave of characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThree episodes in, the Scrubs revival ranks as ABC\u2019s No.1 series in linear adults 18-49 ratings. Coupled with the potent streaming numbers, the medical comedy has made a strong case for a Season 2 renewal. (Scrubs also has high scores on Rotten Tomatoes, 90% from critics and 95% from viewers.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re all crossing our fingers that they let us do a whole bunch more, but we\u2019re really hopeful,\u201d Lawrence said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat would be great news for fans of the original and, in particular, one of its stars who is not in the revival\u2019s nine Season 1 episodes.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Lawrence told Deadline ahead of the revival\u2019s debut<\/a>, \u201cDr. Kelso (Ken Jenkins) will be back next year. It just didn\u2019t work out this year but it will next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDessi Gomez contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Lawrence can breathe a sigh of relief \u2014 likely helped by nostalgia and curiosity, the Scrubs reboot…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":637929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[8811,226882,171,31516,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-637928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc","tag-bill-lawrence","tag-entertainment","tag-scrubs","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116186142749906343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}