by Colleen Britain
For the past eight years Scrubs has been a hit drama. Running for eight seasons, and spanning over eight years of the character’s lives, viewers really got to know these characters. So last year when the show announced its ending, many people were upset. Though the show did its best to wrap the series up, many things were left unanswered. We didn’t know what would happen with the couples that just got together, and we didn’t know what would happen with the newest interns that we had grown to love.
When ABC announced that Scrubs was going to come back, many viewers were excited. We were going to find out what happened with those newfound relationships, and with the interns we had grown to love. All of the unanswered questions are going to be answered. But the new Scrubs is different. Instead of the old main characters there are going to be three new main characters. Some aspects of the old Scrubs will still be there though. The old characters will still be there, but they won’t be there as much.
Out of all of the changes there are two major ones. The first one being that the main character JD (played by Zach Braff) is not going to be the narrator anymore. For the first few episodes it will be him and the new main character Lucy (played by Kerri Bishe). “The idea is to slowly fade me out as the voice over for the show … and have her voice over as I left.” Commented Braff (as seen on the interview on the Scrubs ABC website).
The second major change is the now the characters are in medical school, as apposed to starting off being interns and progressing to attending doctors, with the old main characters being their teachers. The hope for this new take on the show is so that it might be able to go longer. This will make it so they can follow the characters from the time they are in medical school to the time they graduate and become doctors.
So far they have only filmed six episodes. If the show recieves good ratings then they will start filming more episodes. But for now they just have to sit and wait and see if the new version of Scrubs is as big of a hit and the old one was.
