Scrubs is back on our screens after 16 years away, but can fans expect a second season of the reboot? Find out below.
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The sitcom was created by Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Shrinking), and it starred Zach Braff as the loveable doctor J.D. as he navigated life at Sacred Heart Hospital. It debuted in 2001 and ran for eight seasons, becoming a ratings hit and winning two Emmys, but a ninth season in 2010 introduced a new cast of medical interns with Braff in a supporting role. That season was unpopular with fans, and many of them consider it outside of the show’s canon.
The show is now back, with Aseem Batra returning as showrunner, having overseen the show from seasons six to nine. Tim Hobert had been due to run the show alongside Batra, but he left production last year due to “creative differences”.
Braff is also back, alongside co-stars Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and John C. McGinley, and the first two episodes aired on Wednesday (February 25) on the ABC network in the US and on Disney+ in the UK. Subsequent episodes will premiere weekly.
The first batch of reviews for the Scrubs revival have been positive, with the new season sitting on an 89 per cent rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing.
Despite his enthusiasm to return, Zach Braff did admit last year that he felt “exhausted” by the time Scrubs came to a close. “We were starting to repeat jokes. Everyone’s pretty fried,” he revealed on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast. “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”.
Scrubs isn’t the only past show returning to the air, with NME’s list of TV shows to look forward to in 2026 including reboots of both Malcolm In The Middle and Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Is the Scrubs reboot getting a season two?
The Scrubs return launched on February 25 and is airing weekly, with its ninth and final episode set to air on April 15.
At this stage, ABC has not officially confirmed whether they have renewed it for a second new season, as major networks often tend to allow the entire run of episodes to play out before publicly making a commitment.
The episodes have been a commercial and critical success, however, with the premiere episode pulling in over 11million viewers across broadcast and streaming in its first five days. As such, it appears likely that it will be back, although it remains unconfirmed.
Bill Lawrence said before the new season began that he was “really hopeful” for a renewal, adding: “I’m so happy and grateful that anybody still cares about that show.”
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