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Scrubs needs YOUR help to have a series finale !

By fred | February 7, 2008

As you may know already, Scrubs does not have a series finale, since its current (and final) season couldn’t be completed before the strike.

There is a total of 10 episodes that have been completed before the strike, but more were planned, and those 10 episodes do not end the show. They don’t, because creator Bill Lawrence did not want to alter his vision of how the series should end just to please the network & studio, and write a finale much sooner than it was planned.

But what will happen, then ? Is there going to be any real ending, will a series finale be done, and if so, where will we be able to see it ? In short, Lawrence and everyone working on the show wants to do a good ending, and they want it to air on NBC as it should, but they need your help to make it happen!

Michael Ausiello interviewed Lawrence recently, and they talked about the future of the show, and how it could, or would, end. Go ahead and read, there’s no spoiler at all:

Where do things stand on doing a series finale ?

It’s tough for me to say because I can’t really get involved in that stuff until the strike ends. But either way, [NBC] is going to air the episodes we already shot.

And what about shooting new episodes ?

The worst-case scenario is that ABC/Disney [studio producing the show] lets me make the last four episodes as a DVD. And I say that’s the worst-case scenario because I’m going to try as hard as I can to get NBC’s support in finishing the show up on TV. I just don’t have any definitive answer because I haven’t been talking to them.

When the strike is over, what will your first order of business be ?

The second we’re told that we can go back to work, I’m going to give [Peacock honcho] Ben Silverman a call and say, “Scrubs has been on NBC for seven years, and it would really be a bummer if I didn’t get to end it there.” And I’m hoping I’ll get a positive response. I would be surprised if NBC didn’t want to figure out a way to end the series on their network.

How many additional episodes do you think you’d be able to shoot ?

Even though we were supposed to do seven more episodes, I’m sure I could finish the series in four or five. If somebody told me I’d get to do five more episodes on NBC and end the show in a normal way, I’d be superpsyched, considering all the stuff that has gone on.

What can the fans do ?

As long as they still have a desire to see the show, it would be a good thing for them to let NBC know.

You heard that? Scrubs needs our help, it needs YOU! Use the comments section below to send a clear message to NBC that anything less than a satisfying wrap-up to Scrubs‘ seven-year run will not be tolerated ! If NBC doesn’t want to lose us forever, they have to let Lawrence and his team end Scrubs the way the want, the way it should end. Don’t you want that ?

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Shows: Scrubs