Scrubs Season 11 Prospects Addressed By Creator After Robust Rankings For Medical Revival

The creator of Scrubs has shared a hopeful replace about the way forward for the lately rebooted medical sitcom.

The Scrubs reboot, which has additionally been known as “season 10,” had its two-episode debut on ABC on February 25 and amassed 11.36 million cross-platform viewers between streaming and linear inside 5 days. The brand new season, which arrived 16 years after the unique nine-season collection went off the air, options Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke as collection regulars reprising their unique roles.

Deadline lately sat down with Scrubs creator Invoice Lawrence to debate his new HBO collection Rooster. Throughout their dialog, the subject turned to Scrubs‘ robust rankings. Lawrence mentioned that “I’m so glad and grateful that anyone nonetheless cares about that present.” He additionally mirrored on the potential of the present persevering with into season 11.

On the subject of future Scrubs episodes past the present nine-episode season, which is ready to run by means of April 2026, Lawrence mentioned that “we’re all crossing our fingers that they allow us to do an entire bunch extra, however we’re actually hopeful.”

Whereas Lawrence didn’t specify who was included in “we,” he could have been implying that the core returning forged is equally hoping for a renewal. This would definitely be according to earlier feedback that the legendary tv creator has shared, together with a current reveal that he intends to have Ken Jenkins return as Dr. Bob Kelso ought to the reboot be renewed for one more season.

To this point, there’s some precedent that there might be extra seasons to come back after Scrubs season 10. One demerit is the truth that fairly a couple of current comedy reboots have did not final very lengthy, with 2019’s Mad About You and 2021’s Punky Brewster solely lasting one season apiece whereas reboots similar to 2020’s Saved by the Bell and 2023’s Frasier solely ran for 2 seasons.

Nevertheless, there are some reboot comedy collection which have managed to interrupt free from that curse. Each 2017’s Will & Grace and 2023’s Night time Courtroom managed to run for 3 seasons every, whereas 2018’s Roseanne reboot The Conners ran for a whopping seven seasons on ABC.

The Conners season 1 averaged 9.53 million viewers per episode and had hit a median of 4.11 million by season 6. Scrubs‘ stellar rankings averaged out to about 5.7 million viewers per episode, inserting it at in regards to the degree of The Conners season 3. If it might preserve this degree of viewership as its season continues, ABC’s historical past exhibits that they might very properly renew the reboot collection earlier than lengthy.

Scrubs season 10 airs on ABC on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET.