Source: Definitely ABC for Scrubs

By Kristin Dos Santos Mar 25, 2008 12:21 AMTags
Scrubs CastKevin Parry/The Paley Center for Media

If How I Met Your Mother producers are planning to make Sarah Chalke Ted’s baby mama, they’ll have a bit of schedule juggling to do, as she, Zach Braff and the entire Scrubs’ crew returned to work today and they intend to keep Sacred Heart open for business.

The on-set reunion comes after a three-month writers strike, rumors that NBC was not interested in letting the series finish filming its seventh season and, of course, a much talked about move by ABC to scoop it up from the Peacock net—though NBC was reportedly unhappy with that plan.

As of this afternoon, no formal announcement has been made as to where these new episodes the cast is now filming will air. But word around town is that ABC is inches away from closing the deal with all parties and has secured the entire cast for an eighth season that will include eighteen additional episodes. When asked where the show is headed, more than one insider said "definitely ABC."

Our take? NBC’s loss is most definitely the Alphabet net’s gain. Here’s to another year of Rowdy the dog, jiggly ball and Turk and J.D.’s undying bromance...

—Reporting by Korbi Ghosh