This is my third Festivus wish list, and, I’ve got to be honest with you: I think they’re totally useless. Oh, certain, some of the more honest items, like wishes for shows to end well, etc., came true. But my cell phone still does not contain the numbers of Sarah Chalke or America Ferrera. So, li…

This is my third Festivus wish list, and, I’ve got to be honest with you: I think they’re totally useless. Oh, certain, some of the more honest items, like wishes for shows to end well, etc., came true. But my cell phone still does not contain the numbers of Sarah Chalke or America Ferrera. So, …

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: When you write about TV for a living, you’ll never know what will land in your e-mail inbox. That’s what I thought on Friday when I got that note from Robert Maschio, who plays sex-obsessed surgeon “The Todd” on Scrubs:
“Hi Joel, I’ve been reading your …

I’ve been getting mixed signals, from commenters as well as fellow critics, about that season of Scrubs. A lot of TV Squad readers have been finding more fault with the episodes that year than I have, and the Star-Ledger’s Alan Sepinwall called that season “flat and repetitive” on his blog. But I…

Filed under: Programming, The Apprentice, ER, Law and Order, Scrubs, Friday Night LightsIt was NBC’s turn nowadays to announce what its winter schedule would look like. The press release states that “NBC’s first-quarter primetime schedule is slated to deliver significantly more hours of original pro…

I really have to give Bill Lawrence and his staff credit; they’re really doing a nice job of making the final season of Scrubs a strong one. that is yet another example of how the writers have made the show funnier by making things less wacky. In fact, the lack of wackiness parallels how both Tur…

This was kind of a quiet episode, wasn’t it? It seemed to go at a relaxed pace that I haven’t seen from the show in fairly some duration. As we’ve been finding out that season, Bill Lawrence and company have been trying to scale back the zany and build some episodes that were more reminiscent of …

Bill Lawrence, creator of Scrubs, refused to write an “emergency” series finale to use in case of a strike. According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC studios, which produces Scrubs, asked Lawrence to quickly write a series finale before the strike began. The studio apparently asked Lawrence to write …

 Based on the first two episodes, I was tentatively hopeful that the final season of Scrubs was going to be a good one. Now, after that third episode, my confidence in Bill Lawrence and company is nearly fully restored after final season’s awkwardness and inconsistency.

What worked that week…

Despite what I knew about that episode going in — that it would be the one where J.D. and Kim finally have their baby — I didn’t expect it to be so warm-hearted and nearly gimmick-free.

We’ve been hearing rumblings from Bill Lawrence, Zach Braff and company that the final season of Scrub…

 One thing I can say about the season premiere of Scrubs’ seventh and final season: It wasn’t as lurchingly awkward as final year’s season premiere. Or most of the first half of final season, for that matter. But that doesn’t mean it was good.

There were a few laugh-out-loud moments, but m…

Gotta hand it to Zach Braff; he’s probably one of the most wired celebrities out there. He was one of the first celebs (besides our very own Wil Wheaton, of course) to maintain a blog, and he seems to be well aware of whatever World Wide Web buzz is flying around about him or Scrubs.

So it’…

Well, sort of.

Aloma Wright will return to the show that fall, even though her character, Nurse Roberts, was killed off earlier that season. It’s part of a deal that she made with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence: whether the show returned for another season, soon after she could return to the sh…

I usually don’t like to reply directly to posts by our friends at Gawker considering, to be honest, they tend to remind me of those friends from college that started hating Nirvana as soon as they became popular. Snide for snide’s sake tends to get tiring after a while. But I had to write something …

Anyway, my point is that whether the pacing of the episode felt weird to you, that’s the reason why.Continue reading Scrubs: My Rabbit / My Point of No Return (season finale) Permalink | Email this | | Comments I really shouldn’t shout that an “episode.” Really, it was …

The NY Times is reporting that NBC gave the good news to several show producers yesterday, alerting them that their programs would indeed be on the new NBC schedule.

Friday Night Lights and Vegas got the pick up.  On the canceled pile is Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Black Donnellys and…

By next, he should additionally know the fate of Scrubs, so we may see a very happy Zach on stage next week.Continue reading Zach Braff to host season finale of Saturday Night Live Permalink | Email this | | Comments It’s the first moment Braff has hosted SNL, and I thi…

Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews(S06E20) It wouldn’t be Scrubs without romantic drama. And it all usually revolves around J.D.But, unlike it’s Thursday medical dopplegänger on ABC, the romantic trip-ups come less from the neurotic naval-gazing of its characters (except for J.D., of c…

Lots of cold showers. Well, we all know what’s going on with J.D.What does all that mean? Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews(S06E19) Notgettingany Syndrome is an affliction that affects millions of American men, and it seems to run rampant at Sacred Heart, doesn’t it? And it plus means we…