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Are You Ready for Scrubs 2.0?

June 20, 2009

Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello has learned from "Scrubs" creator Bill Lawrence what the next season of the dramedy series will be like, and it's probably not what you're expecting. Ready?

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."

Lawrence explains more what they're going for here.

What do you think? Will this new format work or is the writing on the wall (or should we say, chalkboard?)

COMMENTS (59)

Posted by:

???

June 20, 2009

first. weird.

Posted by:

Preston

June 20, 2009

Sounds stupid.

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K.M.A.

June 20, 2009

I'm still on the fence until it premieresm but I'll give the new format a shot.

Posted by:

Murph

June 20, 2009

Of course the writing's on the wall.

Posted by:

Conqueror

June 20, 2009

I don't know if I'll be able to continue watching this, we'll see.

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James

June 20, 2009

I love Scrubs and Dr. Cox and Turk are two of my favorite characters (and two fo the best) so i'm game!

Posted by:

Xero

June 20, 2009

Marc, go watch the first season of grey's anatomy.

This looks good. Those are my favorite characters.

Posted by:

Swarley

June 20, 2009

They should have just let the show end last season.

Posted by:

eelyajekim

June 20, 2009

Well at least Lawrence understands that the voice over concept cannot be replaced. question is, can this premise work?

As long as they can keep Dr. Cox's rants fresh and interesting, i will keep watching Scrubs.

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June 20, 2009

they should just quit while theyre ahead. the finale of scrubs was great cant you just leave it like that instead of drag it out with this blatent failure?