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Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:37 am
When the show returns next winter, the action will shift from the hospital to the classroom and make med-school professors of John C. McGinley's Dr. Cox and Donald Faison's Turk.
"It'll be a lot like Paper Chase as a comedy," Lawrence tells me. "It's going to be a different show. It'll still be life-and-death stakes, but if the show is just Scrubs again in the hospital with a different person's voiceover, it would be a disaster and people would be mad."
Of course, Sacred Heart won't go away altogether. Although J.D.'s old stomping ground no longer will serve as the show's base of operations, the students will occasionally rotate through its halls -- and bump into many of its familiar faces. In addition to McGinley and Faison, both of whom are expected to be full-time regulars alongside a quartet of newbies (most of them playing students), Scrubs vets Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and Ken Jenkins have agreed to make guest appearances. (Neil Flynn has a costarring role as Patricia Heaton's husband in the new ABC sitcom The Middle, so his name-challenged Janitor will be MIA.)
"Med students in their first three years have to spend anywhere from 10 to 50 percent of their time at a hospital," Lawrence explains. "And that's when you'll see some of the [original cast members]. Continuity-wise, Sacred Heart will still exist with those people still working there."
But Lawrence insists "half the cast, if not 60 percent of it," will be comprised of freshmen, one of which will be more recognizable than the rest. "[ABC] is really after us to hire a big name," he reveals. "So one of them will be fairly famous."
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Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:43 am
just
Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:12 pm
Yeah...again, Bill Lawrence might say "legacy schmegacy" and I respect his point of view since he is the creator and all, but there's a lot to be said about going out on a good note. At least he acknowledges the disaster of trying to continue on the show exactly how it was with a brand new cast, but if it's going to be a new show, give it a new title. If it's officially Scrubs Season 9 (or is it?), that's just asking for people to hate it.
Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:28 am
Andrew , I really miss your " Do ya Love it as much as I do ? " sig . . .
That guy is from Scrubs right ?
The Old man and the Janitor in this show makes me laugh . . .
Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:37 pm
Yes, that was Dr Cox in my old sig.
Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:08 pm
Interesting read, thanks for posting. It has me rethinking my position on the new season a little, I would actually like to approach it with an open mind and hopefully it'll be an enjoyable enough television experience. I'm still a little iffy on it, so few shows get to go out on a high note and I felt Scrubs had a fine finale to do just that but I'll give it a chance.
Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:18 pm
He did want to re-title and it is set in the future, so I'm going to treat it like say TNG to Star Trek, or whatever. I think the point he makes about the various "[Other than JD] Story" episodes is very valid, also the points on the teaching hospital thing. Hopefully it can try to eschew some of the relationship drama that dominated the later seasons in favor of the early seasons "struggling with the situation" stuff.
And has a good class of "background" people like Dr. Beardface and Hooch.
Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:23 pm
Agreed. I have to admit I have higher hopes for it than I did with Joey but I'll certainly wait and see before putting it in the same breath as Frasier.
Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:18 pm
Joey's problem was it didn't take a developed character and take him farther. The characters it brought in were more interesting (and based on the two shows running currently that I love, the other actors were better) and Joey couldn't carry it. In Frasier's case it could build off him, and giving him a brother who's the same doubled up on him. Frasier/Niles failing is hilarious, I still don't know what Joey ever did in that series. The nephew and the neighbor/landlord were the best, and now they're rockin Royal Pains and Better Off Ted. They never found how to build off the Joey character because he was a lacking character to begin with, like all the Friends characters. You can spin off Frasier, you can spin off George and Elaine (as they've basically done) you can't do Kramer or Norm.
Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:44 pm
The characters of Friends certainly worked better as an ensemble. I thought they were good characters in their own right but by the end of the series they'd gotten as much use out of them as they were going to get. I admire their efforts, but a spinoff just wasn't going to work. There was nowhere really to go, nowhere that most fans of the show probably wanted to see it go.
Frasier has certainly set the standard for spinoffs with all its success...unless you want to count The Simpsons as a spinoff which you could technically but not in the same way.
Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:03 am
Season 9 premieres next week
Season Nine focuses on the unique point of view of Dr. John "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff). After leaving for a job at another hospital, J.D. returns to Sacred Heart to teach at its medical school alongside Chris Turk (Donald Faison), Perry Cox (John C. McGinley), Denise (Eliza Coupe) and Bob Kelso (Ken Jenkins). Together they serve as professors (and inspiration) to a brand new class of med students, including the impressionable Lucy, (Kerry Bishé) former med school drop out Drew, (Michael Mosley) and cocky, entitled Cole. (Dave Franco). J.D. is now married to longtime sweetheart Dr. Elliot Reid, (Sarah Chalke) and the happy couple are expecting their first child.
I'll give it a shot.
Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:55 pm
Yep, i dont have any conflicting shows on Tuesdays so I'll give it a shot as well
Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:38 pm
Those are some pretty big leaps that they've made with the canon of the series. Is this supposed to be several years later?
J.D. and Elliot married and expecting?
Kelso out of retirement?
Some nifty exposition is required, methinks. But I too, will give it a shot.
Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:18 pm
I believe they have moved ahead a few years, though they were together at the end of the series and Kelso was rethinking his retirement in the last few episodes of Season 8 so it doesn't have to be too big a jump forward.
Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:46 pm
Not sure how this is going to workout once J.D. leaves.
Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:13 am
What a weird pair of episodes. Definitely had its good moments, and Dr Cox is still as good as always, but It just feels too strange to have (almost) all of the characters teaching all of a sudden. Whatever drama was in the show before will probably be hard to replace because of that new setting.
It's always nice to see some new Scrubs though.
Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:17 am
I like how they are transferring JD's character to a Med Student...the fact that she is a girl just sweetens the cake.
Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:54 am
Plus she's pretty damn cute
Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:32 pm
Finally watched the Season 8 finale and really liked it with all of its cheesiness. Wasn't feeling the new episode at first, but warmed up to it after a while. Its not exactly good, but its Scrubs, and I've missed it.
Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:58 pm
benji wrote:Not sure how this is going to workout once J.D. leaves.
Agreed. Some good moments with the original cast but I'm finding the new characters to be pretty weak - or in Cole's case, downright annoying - I'm not sure they'll carry the show when that time comes.
I'm not finding Dr Cox to be half as entertaining as he once was, with the same complaint I had about the character in Season 8: just too mean-spirited, even for him. There used to be a mix of wit with his snide nature and extra layer to the character but now all he is now is a jerk and we've seen that so many times already through over 150 episodes that for me at least, it's wearing thin. He used to have some of the best lines/moments in the show but for a lot of Season 8 and so far in the first two episodes of Season 9, I'm finding him a bit dry. I'd compare it to the decline in Homer's character on The Simpsons, where writers in later seasons have latched onto one part of the character and desperately tried to squeeze all the funny out of that one element alone. He has his moments, but I feel the character has jumped the shark.
Still way better than the new characters though...I suppose it could just be a bit of a knee-jerk reaction on my part because they are new and it's not what I'm used to, but I don't really have high hopes for it at this point. I'll keep watching, perhaps I'll warm up to it after a few more episodes but I can't shake the disappointing feel that this is going to crash and burn. As of now, my verdict is they should've left it at Season 8.
Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:17 pm
I liked the third episode a little better, knowing what to expect helped a bit. I've still got a feeling it's going to run out of steam once JD goes, Cole is unnecessarily annoying and unlikeable for a main character and I'm finding the security guards painfully unfunny, but it seems like it could be watchable.
Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:50 am
I see it surviving without JD. They've done a good enough job making me care enough about the med students to laugh at the jokes and this Lucy girl should fill JD's void well.
Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:57 am
Wish I could say the same. I find them to be either pretty boring or in Cole's case, downright unlikeable and useless.
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