“Season 9 Was Like, ‘What the Heck Were We Doing?’”
Sixteen years later scrubs got here to an finish, Zach Braff and Donald Faison are scrubbing in but once more as the comedy returns for a revived tenth season.
The return comes after years of buzz — in addition to the stars’ rewatch podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends and their hit T-Mobile commercials — however even Braff is shocked at the consequence, admitting at the LA premiere on Monday, “I never thought [a revival] would be primetime ABC, 8 pm, I thought maybe we’d do a little movie or a miniseries or something. “This is the most glorious incarnation of it that I could have daydreamed about.”
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Bringing again the present was no easy activity, although, due to the difficult means it ended. The first seven seasons aired on NBC, however moved to ABC for season 8. That was anticipated to be the present’s final season, even closing with an episode titled “My Finale;” it then ended up coming again for a controversial ninth season, with many new characters, a brand new setting and Braff showing in solely a few of the episodes.
Braff confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that for the revival, “we decided we would pick up where we left off with season 8,” and disrespect the storylines in that ninth season, which “[creator] Bill [Lawrence] says all the time it was meant to be a spinoff, it wasn’t really in the canon of OG scrubs.”
Faison famous that he and Braff’s rewatch podcast ended up changing into analysis for the new present, and “We really realized what we liked; the fans told us what they liked, told us what they didn’t like. We were very honest with ourselves about the things we were watching and how we were performing. Season nine was like, ‘What the heck were we doing?’ And towards the end of scrubsthe original run, we kind of got off the rails, and we brought it all back to reality and grounded the show quite a bit,” with the revival.
Fellow original stars Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and John C. McGinley are also back, with Chalke noting “one of the craziest parts of this experience was stepping onto set,” with the Sacred Heart Hospital set having been recreated exactly as it was for the original. And as for if they’ve got another eight (or nine) seasons in them this time around, Braff mused, “I feel that is all as much as the powers at be at Disney, so we’ll see. We hope so, we might like to do it. We’re having a blast.”
scrubs premieres Wednesday on ABC, streaming next day on Hulu.
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