{"id":24444,"date":"2026-02-24T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bill-lawrence-aseem-batra-share-details-on-scrubs-revival\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:18:42","slug":"bill-lawrence-aseem-batra-share-details-on-scrubs-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bill-lawrence-aseem-batra-share-details-on-scrubs-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Lawrence &#038; Aseem Batra Share Details on Scrubs Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scrubs<\/em>\u00a0is returning to the screen tomorrow after 15 years off the air, with Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke reprising their roles as doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Lawrence, creator of the original series, says that the\u00a0<em>Scrubs<\/em>\u00a0fan base has continued to be passionate about the series and was constantly asking for the show to come back over the past 15 years. \u201cI think people were looking for that humanity and that comedic connection to these people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited that it\u2019s happening right now because when we started with these characters, they were at a point in their lives when they were asking the questions of: What is going to happen to me? What\u2019s my life going to look like?\u201d adds Aseem Batra, showrunner and executive producer of the revival. \u201cNow, they\u2019re at a point where they know a lot of those questions have been answered, but not everything you fantasize for your life turns out that way. So, you\u2019re at this turning point again, where we have so many more stories to tell because we\u2019re trying to find meaning in all of this and see what\u2019s next for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The original run of\u00a0<em>Scrubs<\/em>\u00a0was actually Batra\u2019s first job as a writer. She was a staff writer for the original show and was an assistant at ABC and Disney. Similarly,\u00a0<em>Scrubs<\/em>\u00a0was Braff\u2019s first major role in a TV show and marked the entrance for several actors into the mainstream. Now, the new season is offering a similar opportunity for younger cast members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weirdness was the time warp of landing back on a set that looked exactly like the original set,\u201d Lawrence says. \u201cAnd Zach, Judy [Reyes], Donald and Sarah all looked the same. I really enjoyed watching the cyclical nature of not only our real lives but of Hollywood because those four playing the elder teachers that are going to help this new batch of young people was exactly what I watched happen the original time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continues, \u201cIt was so fascinating to watch Zach as a caretaker of the young actors and actresses, the same way that when Zach started the job, he had been a waiter the week before. It was cool to see it all come full circle. It\u2019s one of those things I love about Hollywood\u2014seeing people get these chances to start their career in the arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the new cast members playing young doctors in the series are David Gridley, Ava Bunn, Jacob Dudman, Amanda Morrow and Layla Mohammadi.<\/p>\n<p>The creative team found the casting process exciting. \u201cIt\u2019s such an exciting search to remember what Hollywood used to be, when television used to make stars,\u201d Lawrence says. \u201cWith streaming, you get into this world of, what if every Oscar winner was in the same television show? [For\u00a0<em>Scrubs<\/em>], I would be surprised if anybody recognized more than two of these young actors and actresses, even the biggest fans. And they\u2019re all great, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cool part of the process of casting is sometimes you just know it right when it happens, and sometimes you have to see it again, and so there were people who we saw the first time and weren\u2019t sure [about] and then the second time, we\u2019re like, That\u2019s the character,\u201d Batra adds. \u201cIt was a very exciting process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the main characters, there are a host of new \u201cside\u201d characters as well. Vanessa Bayer plays a worker in the wellness HR department, something that didn\u2019t exist in hospitals back when the show started in 2001. Also, X Mayo and Michael James Scott join as nurses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe greatest thing that [the creatives] carried on [from the original series] was that any character in the show is not just there to deliver exposition,\u201d Lawrence says. \u201cBringing in those side characters for comedy really matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first two episodes of the revival are premiering back-to-back tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET\/PT on ABC and will stream the next day on Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Lawrence, creator of Scrubs, and Aseem Batra, showrunner and executive producer of the new revival, talk about bringing the hit series back to the screen after 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":24445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[11963,4600,11962],"class_list":["post-24444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-aseem-batra","tag-bill-lawrence","tag-scrubs","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bill Lawrence &amp; 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