Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence doesn't think TV reboots will tarnish the originals
Good, bad, or otherwise, Lawrence says the reboots are a "no-lose" scenario.
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The TV nostalgia bug has moved from the 1990s—Frasier, Sex And The City—firmly into the 2000s. There’s a (very limited) Malcolm In The Middle revival on the way, and (another) reboot of Scrubs on the horizon. While it’s easy to be cynical about these and chalk (at least some) of them up as cash grabs, Bill Lawrence, creator of the latter show, disagrees. “I’ll start with, if I thought it was a bad idea, I wouldn’t do it,” he tells the Los Angeles Times in a new interview. “I’m not chasing commerce and without being self-aggrandizing, I don’t need to.” The cast, however, really wants to work together again, and there are a lot of talented writers with open schedules, he explains—an unfortunate effect of the industry squeezing.