Rare find among the Scrubs
Wednesday, 7. May 2008, 13:52:33
Yesterday was a happy day for me. Without any hint of exaggeration I reckon I spend about an hour a day watching episodes of US hospital based sitcom, Scrubs, and most of these I have seen before, but yesterday I found two episodes that were new to me.
Better still, Channel 4 ran a trailer saying "Scrubs returns to Channel 4". Some of us were under the assumption that it had never been away, though it has not yet quite achieved the level of omnipresencee of the bafflingly successful Friends.
This led me to believe that C4 are running new episodes which by my reckoning would be series 7. However, the web site seems to imply they are running series 6. Surely that's already been broadcast? With so many channels around these days it is hard to tell.
Series seven was one of those shows that was affected by the writers strike but the show appears to be back on course with new episodes airing in the States. This was supposed to be the final series, with NBC decided to can it but ABC, which makes the show but does not broadcast it, is supposed to be picking up the rights to the show.
This is good news for my Scrubs addiction but as I seem to be quite happy to watch each episode dozens of times and still find each one funny I can afford to harbour a few small doubts about whether extending the life of the show is actually a good idea. One only has to look at the death throes of Happy Days to see how a show's legacy can be undone by flogging a dead horse.
Still, the US broadcaating business seems to be a thoroughly ruthless industry with shows getting cut halfway through a series; if Black Adder or Red Dwarf had been produced on American TV neither would have seen a second episode, never mind a second series. So, if it stops cutting the mustard, we can be sure it will be terminated in short order.
Of course, if Dr. Elliot Reed continues to attempt to look more glamorous every series then her character will completely lose any plausability. In the early series she was a chunky, pasty-faced by still attractive woman but some time in the middle series she had changed into the sort of woman who clearly spends 6 hours applying make-up and choosing her outfit every morning before travelling to her exhausting place of work to put in a 12-hour shift.
Bring back the old Elliot. Er .. .the young Elliot. Whatever.
Meanwhile, can a film be long in arriving?
Better still, Channel 4 ran a trailer saying "Scrubs returns to Channel 4". Some of us were under the assumption that it had never been away, though it has not yet quite achieved the level of omnipresencee of the bafflingly successful Friends.
This led me to believe that C4 are running new episodes which by my reckoning would be series 7. However, the web site seems to imply they are running series 6. Surely that's already been broadcast? With so many channels around these days it is hard to tell.
Series seven was one of those shows that was affected by the writers strike but the show appears to be back on course with new episodes airing in the States. This was supposed to be the final series, with NBC decided to can it but ABC, which makes the show but does not broadcast it, is supposed to be picking up the rights to the show.
This is good news for my Scrubs addiction but as I seem to be quite happy to watch each episode dozens of times and still find each one funny I can afford to harbour a few small doubts about whether extending the life of the show is actually a good idea. One only has to look at the death throes of Happy Days to see how a show's legacy can be undone by flogging a dead horse.
Still, the US broadcaating business seems to be a thoroughly ruthless industry with shows getting cut halfway through a series; if Black Adder or Red Dwarf had been produced on American TV neither would have seen a second episode, never mind a second series. So, if it stops cutting the mustard, we can be sure it will be terminated in short order.
Of course, if Dr. Elliot Reed continues to attempt to look more glamorous every series then her character will completely lose any plausability. In the early series she was a chunky, pasty-faced by still attractive woman but some time in the middle series she had changed into the sort of woman who clearly spends 6 hours applying make-up and choosing her outfit every morning before travelling to her exhausting place of work to put in a 12-hour shift.
Bring back the old Elliot. Er .. .the young Elliot. Whatever.
Meanwhile, can a film be long in arriving?
