Invoice Lawrence mentioned the “Scrubs” reunion has been within the making for over 20 years. The beloved comedy sequence premiered on NBC in 2001 and later ran on ABC. Twenty 5 years since its debut, the sequence creator informed TheWrap the fandom and household behind the present are extra alive than ever.
The revival sequence has been hinted about by followers and producers for the reason that present wrapped in 2009. Then Lawrence sounded reboot bells on the ATX Tv Competition in 2022. He informed TheWrap that the recap podcast, hosted by co-stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison, illuminated how hungry the fandom was for extra of the Sacred Coronary heart crew.
“What was at all times attention-grabbing about this present is the friendships appeared genuine,” Lawrence informed TheWrap.
“Folks have seen us hanging out collectively and bounce round,” he added. “It’s exhausting to not attain our age and say, ‘Man, it’d be good to reclaim one of the enjoyable instances in our lives and see what it appears like.’”
Since “Scrubs” wrapped, Lawrence’s attain in tv has expanded considerably. This TV season alone the showrunner has 4 reveals popping out — “Scrubs,” “Shrinking,” “Ted Lasso” and “Rooster.”
For Lawrence, the “Scrubs” reunion was not concerning the staff’s willingness to take part, however coordinating with the solid’s busy schedules and making a product that the followers may very well be happy with. Judy Reyes is a sequence common on one other ABC comedy “Excessive Potential;” Zach Braff directs episodes inside Lawrence’s canon; and Sarah Chalke voices Beth Smith on “Rick and Morty.”
“The cool factor about this world was that each one these individuals I simply talked about they’re all simply loopy proficient, and it’s not like they’re banging down doorways on the lookout for work,” he mentioned. “They’re all working consistently as a result of they’re superior. So actually, (the reunion) was only a product of being fortunate sufficient {that a} fanbase wished to see it.”
The brand new season sees JD (Braff), Turk (Faison) and Elliot (Chalke) return to Sacred Coronary heart, however this time because the grownups on the instructing hospital. A brand new crop of medical and surgical interns be part of the ranks, however the identical immature, affable OG solid floor the reincarnation of the sequence.
Although JD, Elliot and Turk are the adults within the room, the characters don’t take themselves too severely. Lawrence mentioned that this “infantile exuberance” was a part of what made audiences fall in love with these characters. The reunion needed to seize that regardless of getting older the characters up.
“I used to be fascinated to go, ‘I ponder how we are able to work out if we are able to dangle on to JD and Turk’s infectious infantile pleasure after they’re round one another, however nonetheless have them step into the function of being adults and being the lecturers that they as soon as had of their lives,’” Lawrence defined. “That was a enjoyable problem.”
For Braff, Chalke and Faison, this childlike friendship by no means left them.
“We’re nonetheless these individuals,” Braff informed TheWrap. “The three of us, after we’re hanging out, we’re laughing on a regular basis, and we’re fairly foolish adults.”
“You possibly can’t faux that,” Chalke added. “You hope once you begin a brand new job, that you just’ll all have chemistry and get alongside, however you’ll be able to’t faux 25 years of realizing one another and spending time and dealing collectively.”
“While you take all the historical past that we’ve had up to now and put it into one thing now,” Faison informed TheWrap, “for my part, it might probably solely succeed as a result of there’s a lot love and a lot stuff that got here with that historical past.”
Evolving the sequence for 2026 required the staff to look retrospectively at its origins. Lawrence, a self-proclaimed fan — “no approach Invoice, you’re a fan of your individual reveals, yeah, no matter,” he joked — understood the burden of adapting the present for the trendy day.
Braff and Faison even confronted the present’s stumbles of their rewatch podcast. Braff, who serves as an government producer and director of the reboot’s pilot, mentioned that it solely made their performances and writing on the sequence that a lot better.
“We have been very sincere on the podcast,” Braff mentioned. “We’d be like, ‘This one sucks,’ and ‘we’re so broad.’ I believe that we did it in a humorous approach for the followers, hopefully, however when it got here time to essentially go, ‘How can we re-approach this?’ It was very informative.”
The revival brings in a brand new intern class with newcomers Ava Bunn, Jacob Dudman, David Gridley, Layla Mohammadi and Amanda Morrow. The 2026 sequence additionally contains recurring visitor stars Vanessa Bayer, Joel Kim Booster, John C. McGinley, Reyes, Andy Ridings, Lisa Gilroy, Rachel Bilson, Michael James Scott and X Mayo.
“Scrubs” premieres with two episodes Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET/PT and streams the subsequent day on Hulu.
