ABC Renews the Scrubs Revival for Another Season

The bully quality keeps coming for Scrubs fans. With the archetypal play of the Scrubs revival debuting to beardown reviews and precocious viewership numbers, ABC has opted to renew the bid for different play arsenic portion of the network's 2026-2027 TV lineup.

The quality comes from THR, which reports that Scrubs was ABC's most-watched drama among adults 18-49 this season. According to Nielsen and Disney, the bid drew successful a full of 11.36 cardinal views successful its archetypal 5 days crossed ABC, Hulu, Hulu connected Disney+ and integer platforms.

Word of the Scrubs revival primitively broke successful May 2025, and Season 10 debuted connected ABC and Hulu successful February 2026. It remains to beryllium seen erstwhile precisely Season 11 volition premiere.

This is different feather successful the headdress for Scrubs creator/executive shaper Bill Lawrence, whose existent lineup of TV and streaming comedies includes Apple TV+'s Shrinking and Ted Lasso and HBO's Rooster (check retired IGN's reappraisal of Rooster Episodes 1-6). Rooster was besides precocious renewed for a 2nd season, with prima John C. McGinley informing fans "everyone is expendable."

IGN's Jesse Schedeen was pleased with the Scrubs revival successful its archetypal 4 episodes, writing, "Scrubs had a good, agelong tally successful the aboriginal ‘00s, but it’s wide there’s inactive much country connected that runway. The bid hardly misses a bushed arsenic it makes its long-overdue instrumentality to ABC. As before, the bid is carried by the incredible, childlike chemistry of its leads and that ever-charming blend of goofy sitcom antics and darker aesculapian drama. That’s not to accidental determination aren’t immoderate issues successful the archetypal 4 episodes of Season 10. The bid has its enactment chopped retired for it erstwhile it comes to establishing the caller formed of characters alongside the old. But compared to the misguided messiness that was Season 9, the revival is simply a invited instrumentality to signifier for a fan-favorite series."

Are you anxious to walk much clip with Zach Braff's JD and Donald Faison's Turk? Let america cognize successful the comments. Until then, spot what the Scrubs formed had to accidental astir recapturing the magic of the archetypal series.

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