{"id":2316667,"date":"2026-03-07T02:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2316667"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:22:01","slug":"scrubs-creator-bill-lawrence-addresses-revivals-renewal-chances-after-strong-premiere-ratings-were-really-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/scrubs-creator-bill-lawrence-addresses-revivals-renewal-chances-after-strong-premiere-ratings-were-really-hopeful\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scrubs\u2019 Creator Bill Lawrence Addresses Revival\u2019s Renewal Chances After Strong Premiere Ratings: \u201cWe\u2019re Really Hopeful\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0492639\/\">Bill Lawrence<\/a> can breathe a sigh of relief \u2014 likely helped by nostalgia and curiosity, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17082219\/\">Scrubs<\/a> reboot launched to impressive ratings last week, amassing 11.36M total cross-platform viewers on ABC, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0218858\/\">Hulu<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0721120\/\">Disney+<\/a> and digital platforms in its first five days, per Disney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so happy and grateful that anybody still cares about that show,\u201d Lawrence said about the revival\u2019s performance during an interview about his latest series, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32420734\/\">Rooster<\/a> for HBO, which stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0136797\/\">Steve Carell<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7163261\/\">Charly Clive<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4651633\/\">Phil Dunster<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4314990\/\">Danielle Deadwyler<\/a> and Scrubs alum John C. McKinley.<\/p>\n<p>In its return after 17 years, Scrubs, headlined by original stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0103785\/\">Zach Braff<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0265668\/\">Donald Faison<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0149950\/\">Sarah Chalke<\/a>, delivered the highest-rated comedy episode on ABC and top ABC series debut on streaming in over a year, since the premiere of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31614348\/\">Shifting Gears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the people that are in it so much, not only the old ones because I\u2019ve talked way too much about Zach,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Lawrence can breathe a sigh of relief \u2014 likely helped by nostalgia and curiosity, the Scrubs reboot launched to impressive ratings last week, amassing 11.36M total cross-platform viewers on ABC, Hulu, Disney+ and digital platforms in its first five days, per Disney. \u201cI\u2019m so happy and grateful that anybody still cares about that show,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2316668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2316667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018Scrubs-Creator-Bill-Lawrence-Addresses-Revivals-Renewal-Chances-After-Strong.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316669,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316667\/revisions\/2316669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}