It’s been reported today (December 6) that Scrubs is being rebooted by the show’s original creator, Bill Lawrence.

As per Variety, Lawrence is working on a new incarnation of the series via 20th Television for ABC. The original series was produced by ABC Studios and ran for eight seasons from 2001 to 2010.

According to a source, Variety state that while Lawrence remains under his original deal at Warner Bros. studio, they’ve made space for him to work his his former studio partners on the Scrubs reboot.

If the project goes to series, Variety report that Lawrence will not serve as a show runner. At this point, no cast are reportedly attached to the project.

Lawrence recently teased that Scrubs could come back in “six months to a year” because the cast feel they have “stories to tell”.

He highlighted in a recent interview that the COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on the importance of people in the medical profession, meaning the hospital sitcom could have a fresh new relevance in the 2020s.

“We’ve been talking about it,” he told The Independent. “We all spend time with each other in real life, but everybody is so talented from that show that they’re all working.

“We’ve really started to entertain the idea about getting the band back together because we all feel like we do have some stories to tell. People in the medical community are heroes right now. They certainly aren’t doing it for the money! It’s been a crazy rough time, so I would not be surprised if we figure something out in the next six months to a year.”

Back in August, Zach Braff who played J.D. on the medical sitcom that while he and the cast were “exhausted” by the end of the final season, they would still be up for a reunion.

Braff said that he and his costars – Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and Christa Miller – were “kind of fried” by season nine.

“I miss laughing every day. Belly laughing every day was – that was the job. And when that goes away, by the time nine years were over, we were sort of all exhausted by it,” Braff said on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast on August 13.

“We were starting to repeat jokes. Everyone’s pretty fried,” he recalled of the role, which earned him three Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nod. “We would do insane hours that people don’t even do anymore. We didn’t really have much of a life outside of it. So we were just kind of fried.”

However, while stressing that concluding the series in 2010 was the right decision, Braff said that he’d definitely be open to revisiting Sacred Heart Hospital at some point in the future.

“But now looking back, and there’s talk of reboots, and that’s a conversation, I think, ‘Oh my gosh. Being able to laugh – belly laugh – with these people again, would be a lot of fun,’” he said.

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