EXCLUSIVE: Now in its ultimate stretch, the Scrubs reboot’s prolonged street to the display has taken one other flip with a behind-the-scenes change. One of many sequence’ showrunners, Tim Hobert, has stepped down amid manufacturing with the opposite, Aseem Batra, assuming the duties solo, Deadline has discovered.
Hobert and Batra co-wrote the opening episode of the brand new ABC sequence from twentieth Tv, which reboots Invoice Lawrence’s common 2001 medical comedy with the unique forged, together with Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and John C. McGinley, reprising their roles. Hobert, whose departure is alleged to be resulting from artistic variations, will stay credited as government producer on at the very least the primary 5 episodes, sources stated. The followup, which held its first desk learn in late September, is slated to start filming its third episode later this week, I hear.
Lawrence government produces the reboot; he doesn’t have showrunner involvement due to his unique general deal at Warner Bros. Tv. Additionally government producing are Braff, who directed the primary episode, Faison, Chalke, Batra in addition to Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer of Lawrence’s Doozer banner.
Each Hobert and Batra labored as writers on the unique Scrubs below Lawrence: Hobert served as co-executive producer, government producer and consulting producer; Batra as story editor, government story editor and co-producer.
Within the reboot, which acquired a straight-to-series order by ABC in July, JD (Braff) & Turk (Faison) scrub in collectively for the primary time in a very long time — drugs has modified, interns have modified, however their bromance has stood the check of time. Characters new and previous navigate the waters of Sacred Coronary heart with laughter, coronary heart and a few surprises alongside the best way.
SCRUBS: (L-R) Collection creator Invoice Lawrence, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Zach Braff, Judy Reyes, John C. McGinley
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