Well after months of speculation and the marketing of last week’s Scrubs on NBC as the “Scrubs Finale,” today “ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson…officially announced the acquisition of NBC comedy Scrubs.” (link) This might have been one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood considering Scrubs is already back in production for next season.
What is surprising is that McPherson hinted that “Scrubs on ABC…may go beyond next season.” (link) The last part sounds a little weird to me, since The Blot had always been under the impression that no matter what next season would be Scrubs’ 8th and final season. Zach Braff even said as much in his blog post yesterday on his Myspace page when he said “I was not allowed to say it until today, but Scrubs will be moving to ABC for its final season.” (link)
It was nice to hear McPherson speak so positive about what Scrubs can bring to ABC. He even added that “we think it’s been in 17 time periods on (NBC) and they rarely promoted it at all and it still performed a 3.5 rating on Thursday second only to the The Office. We think it’s a great addition to our comedy brand, it gives us a real opportunity and another piece to play with” (link) It sounds like Scrubs finally has a network’s support, which the show has so desperately needed. Hopefully this move will do great things for the show and give Scrubs the send off it so richly deserves.