"Scrubs" is going back to school

[Double Down]

'Scrubs' shocker: School's in, hospital's out!

Scrubs boss Bill Lawrence said his cancellation-defying comedy would undergo an extreme makeover in its ninth season, and, man, he wasn't kidding. 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 stumping 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."

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/06/scrubs-moving-from-hospital-to-med-school.html

 

[Dr. Evil]

So I guess this means that Judy Reyes isn't moving back to New York. Well, not yet anyways.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

So no Jo or Sunny?

 

[Double Down]

40-50 percent of the cast will be back, so ... maybe.

 

[Anubis]

Eh, I'll take a wait and see approach to this.

 

[The Sage]

How is Dr. Cox going to be both a med school professor and Chief of Medicine, especially after eighth season emphasized how stacked his schedule is? And isn't Turk Chief of Surgery?

 

[Dr. Evil]

How is Dr. Cox going to be both a med school professor and Chief of Medicine, especially after eighth season emphasized how stacked his schedule is? And isn't Turk Chief of Surgery?

I am sensing that both will be addressed in the season premiere.

I wonder which named actor will be cast as one of the students?

 

[Prison Mike]

Brad Pitt as the med school freshman. I called it here first!

 

[Rocker22]

I'm glad that they are changing it a lot and not trying to keep it the same.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

This is...interesting. I'll have to play the wait and see approach though.

 

[Sawyer]

Eeeh.... I have somewhat of an AfterMASH feeling about this.

 

[Double Down]

How is Dr. Cox going to be both a med school professor and Chief of Medicine, especially after eighth season emphasized how stacked his schedule is? And isn't Turk Chief of Surgery?

Maybe Cox blew up at someone (like a boardmember) and got fired. So now he needs to get a new job.
I'm betting on that scenario.

 

[The Sage]

Maybe Cox blew up at someone (like a boardmember) and got fired. So now he needs to get a new job.
I'm betting on that scenario.

Ugh I hope not.

 

[hpwiz89]

Uh no...

 

[Double Down]

Well, he won't be teaching there in his spare time.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Wow.... anything for the all mighty dollar eh.

 

[Matt]

Sacred Heart is a teaching hospital and it has classrooms (which have been displayed before). Most teaching hospitals are parts of universities if not owned by them (like UPMC). My guess is budget cuts will force the chiefs to teach as well.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

This is...odd. I'll watch it b/c I barely watch anything on TV as it is.

 

[Syncos]

Could be interesting.
It's strange that Cox and Turk are profs considering they're the Chiefs of Medicine and Surgery respectively. It almost seems like a step back in their careers if they actively choose to teach over practice. I'm sure they've got something worked out.

 

[Catman]

It's strange that Cox and Turk are profs considering they're the Chiefs of Medicine and Surgery respectively. It almost seems like a step back in their careers if they actively choose to teach over practice. I'm sure they've got something worked out.

What part of Sacred Heart being a teaching hospital did you miss? Their main job IS to teach.

 

[Syncos]

What part of Sacred Heart being a teaching hospital did you miss? Their main job IS to teach.

Being a teaching hospital doesn't mean that their -main job- is to teach. it means that they teach while they practice medicine.

The press release claims that they'd be instructing classes at a med school. There's no way they'd have time for their current hi demand positions and teaching full time.

 

[Sawyer]

Mmm.... I'm still feeling very iffy about this. I mean, I'll still watch (its not like this is Heroes or anything), but I'm a little uncertain.

 

[DACrowe]

I love Scrubs. Despite a weak sixth and seventh season, last year it finished strong. I think it is time to let it go. This has the "AfterMASH" or "Joey" feel to it. I don't want to see that happen to Scrubs as well.

 

[fu manchu]

WTF.... Scrubs: The College Years ?

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I hate to see a TV show die a slow death like this... It's sad when producer's cant let go.