Zach Braff Back on Scrubs
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The article mentions that the show will visit the hospital... so I guess it's when students have to do their rounds or whatever.
It's a spin-off in everything but name then, which is good because I wont feel compelled to add it to my DVD collection if it sucks.
Isn't the main character supposed to be Jo the intern from season 8 or was that an unsubstantiated rumour? Because if she is the main character she'd be a resident by now and it would make little sense for her to be in class all the time.
Isn't the main character supposed to be Jo the intern from season 8 or was that an unsubstantiated rumour? Because if she is the main character she'd be a resident by now and it would make little sense for her to be in class all the time.
Given that they film the show in an abandoned hospital, and have zero money this year, I can't believe they would move filming elsewhere. And if they'll still film at Sacred Heart that means they're still in the hospital filming and they wouldn't maintain that just for the occasional scene. Maybe this "med school" is just going to be a different floor of the hospital they haven't filmed on before?
Well, in the early seasons they commonly had scenes happening in and around classrooms and auditoriums, where various characters would present papers or be evaluated in an educational setting. Sacred Heart was always a teaching hospital, but this aspect of the show was reduced as the principal doctors moved away from being fresh students and towards being full-time employees of the hospitals.
As such, it wouldn't surprise me to suddenly see a return to Sacred Heart's roots and have more scenes in and around a school setting. Cox and Turk leading the charge makes sense as they are now the Chiefs of Medicine and Surgery, respecttively, and also to take a larger role with the students much as Kelso and Dr. Wen used to. They'll do rounds, lead surgery, etc.
In other words, this is a return to the older formula of Scrubs, shaken up and removing JD. I think it should be interesting to see at least for a while.
Mark
As such, it wouldn't surprise me to suddenly see a return to Sacred Heart's roots and have more scenes in and around a school setting. Cox and Turk leading the charge makes sense as they are now the Chiefs of Medicine and Surgery, respecttively, and also to take a larger role with the students much as Kelso and Dr. Wen used to. They'll do rounds, lead surgery, etc.
In other words, this is a return to the older formula of Scrubs, shaken up and removing JD. I think it should be interesting to see at least for a while.
Mark
Sounds a little like they're doing what LWT did with "Doctor in the House" back in the 70s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_in_the_House_(TV_series)
This show turned me on to British comedy well before most Americans had ever heard of Monty Python. In fact, prior to Python's "birth", Graham Chapman and John Cleese were on the writing staff of the first two incarnations of "Doctor in the House". Also, Douglas Adams was one of the writers on "Doctor on the Go" (the 4th incarnation of the show).
This show turned me on to British comedy well before most Americans had ever heard of Monty Python. In fact, prior to Python's "birth", Graham Chapman and John Cleese were on the writing staff of the first two incarnations of "Doctor in the House". Also, Douglas Adams was one of the writers on "Doctor on the Go" (the 4th incarnation of the show).
Being a kid in the 70s in the UK meant growing up with the "Doctor" shows/movies as part of the landscape along with Python etc. I remember it well!
And as for Scrubs - I'll keep watching. Could be good. You never know!
It's hard to dispute his logic though; in this economic climate he can't justify laying off a whole bunch of people in order to "protect the legacy" of the show. I don't like the idea that there will be a ninth season without Braff and I feel the finale was the perfect way the end the show, but ultimately he is probably right to keep going and keep maybe a hundred people in work.
^^ Finacially maybe, but creatively, it is getting slighty embrassing how he is trying to keep this going. I read an interview with him a while ago where has was like "the people doing pilots may not get picked up, they may be back" and just about says "how do you know? it might not suck" in terms of talking about a future season/spin off.
There are times when you just have to let things go.
There are times when you just have to let things go.
Umm... you do realize he has no choice in the matter? He was going to leave Scrubs, going to end it last year by ABC picked it up for another season. So he stayed on and is trying to make a spinoff that will be really good or really bad. He also sees no point in firing 126 people he has worked with for 8 years, not that he has any control in the matter anyways.
He has every choice. He could leave, and even if he is contractually obligated to stay for another year, he could chose to not sound so desperate when talking about it.
As for the people employed, well sure, it's nice they have employment for another season, but as these people work in tv and the like, I am sure they appreciate that any job has a shelf life, and I doubt many expected Scrubs to last as long as it did, and didnt budget their life on the hope that Scrubs lasted into a ninth year. It would hardly be a horrible crime towards them if the show ended now and they had to find more work would it? It's not like stopping from make a full season after a well recieved pilot.
^ If your boss gathered the whole staff tomorrow told you that he was letting you all go because he doesn't think it right for your company to keep going, would you agree with him? If it was me (and it was me almost a year ago) I'd think he was a complete bastard.
Yes! The employment situation is horrible at the moment even in the television industry. I might find it understandable for him to have ended the show 2 years ago when things were going good and people were more likely to find a job, but right now there is very few jobs available. Are you saying that he should just fire over a hundred people, many of whom he is friends with and knows their families, just because you don't want to watch a TV show you are in no way obligated to watch anyway?
He's trying to save his show from ABC. He wants to start anew with the new season of Scrubs instead of letting some hack completely destroy his show.
Would you like him to come out and say "I think it's a terrible idea because it will piss off the loser fans?" because he's not even going to say that.
Would you like him to come out and say "I think it's a terrible idea because it will piss off the loser fans?" because he's not even going to say that.
It depends on the business doesnt it? If I work in a shop or a business that ticks over doing the same thing every day and every year, then sure I would be pissed, if I worked on a tv show, in a notoriously volatile and fickle business, I would realise that it was going to happen at some point and be prepared for such an event.
Edited to make myself clearer: We're wandering off the original point, which was that I find it to be a bit of beating a dead horse at this point and that Lawrence is sounding a bit desperate and embarasing when he hypes it up now and it should just end. Your contention is that the show should keep going because people are employed by it, I am saying, this is showbusiness, no one involved in any way in show business expects anything to last forever, so saying to them after eight years, "we are ending the show" is not a crime against nature.
I'd like him to not sound desperate and clearly trying to convince himself as much as anyone else when he says stuff.
If he doesnt like what is happening, then he can either leave and bad mouth it all he wants, or if he chooses to stay, then he should choose his words more carefully, because for however much he may dislike it, he's choosing to keep getting a paycheque being involved in making it.
Though as a fan of the show, what is proposed for season nine doesnt piss me off, it just doesnt interest me, so I wont bother watching it.
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I like the sound of that.
Nobody is saying that it's a crime against nature, that's your wording and its made from a straw-like substance. What I'm saying is that he is a man who is responsible for the income of over a hundred families and he doesn't want to fire all those people in the middle of a recession because he's worried about the legacy of his show. Creatively it might be the wrong decision, but as a human being he is looking out for the welfare of his people and he's going to be the one taking the hit if the new season ends up being rubbish. I find that very respectable.
Clearly I am exagerating slighty to make my point. However, the main crux remains the same, you think the show going on beyond it's natural span of life is a good thing as it keeps people employed, I dont think those people being employed should be taken into consideration when deciding upon the fate of the show, mainly due to the business they work in and everything that business entails.
Clearly Lawrence and I are two very different people.
I shall say no more, else we end up going in circles.
Some interesting news...
http://blog.zap2it.com/korbitv/2009...xt-season-former-tv-star-to-be-recruited.html
The show will have a new name, and they are building sets instead of it taking plus in the old hospital.
http://blog.zap2it.com/korbitv/2009...xt-season-former-tv-star-to-be-recruited.html
The show will have a new name, and they are building sets instead of it taking plus in the old hospital.
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