Scott Foley
Scott Foley is scheduled to appear in three episodes of ABC's new hit comedy Cougar Town starting in December, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Lisa Kudrow will guest-star on Cougar Town
Foley (The Unit, Felicity) has signed on to play...
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Sarah Chalke
[SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this article if you don't want to know how Scrubs will change this season.]
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Cougar Town, Modern Family, The Middle
Cougar Town, Modern Family and The Middle have been picked up for full seasons, reps for the ABC series confirm to TVGuide.com.
The news of ABC ordering more episodes of the Wednesday night comedy block — sans Hank — comes a day after...
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Courteney Cox
Get ready to see an old friend in Cougar Town next year.
Courteney Cox, the erstwhile Monica Geller, is partnering with ...
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Scrubs by Mitchell Haaseth/NBC Photo
As promised, here's the complete transcript from my new interview with Scrubs' main man Bill Lawrence (an excerpt of which appears in this week's Ask Ausiello). If you consider yourself a fan, I urge you to read it and heed the urgent call to action at the bottom. Time is of the essence, people!Where do things stand on doing a series finale?Bill Lawrence: It's tough for me to say because I can't really get involved in that stuff until the strike ends. But either way, [NBC] is going to air the episodes we already shot.And what about shooting new episodes?Lawrence: The worst-case scenario is that ABC/Disney lets me make the last four episodes as a DVD. And I say that's the worst-case scenario because I'm going to try as hard as I can to get NBC's support in finishing the show up on TV. I just don't have any definitive answer because I haven't been talking to them. When the strike is over, what will your first order of business be?Lawrence: The second we're told that we can go back to ...
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Scrubs courtesy NBC
Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence was is a unique position as the strike neared in that his show was on its way off the air. Even so, he said Sunday at a New York Comedy Festival event that he refused a request from NBC to slap together a script that would serve as a series ender. Describing the finale the network suggested as full of scenes where "two people kiss," Lawrence (who has one of 12 pre-strike scripts left to shoot) instead hopes to wait out the strike and then craft his own denouement — by any means possible. "I will use all my leverage to end this show properly, even if it means I have to do all the voices myself and call people up to read it over the phone," he said.More strike coverage: • Will Tonight Show Go On... With Guest Hosts?• Strike Could Give Cable Shows Edge at '08 Emmys• Striking Up Romance: Single Scribes Pair Off on the Picket Line
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Judy Reyes and Aloma Wright in Scrubs courtesy NBC
Keeping a promise he made to Aloma Wright, Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence tells Variety that though he killed off Nurse Roberts this past season, her portrayer will still have a job for Season 7. Wright will play Laverne's twin sister, Shirley (ha!), a single, alcoholic woman who shuns religion. Says the actress, "I'm glad to know [Lawrence] is a man of his word.".... Brit beauty Jaime Murray (Hustle) is joining Showtime's Dexter in the role of Lila, a "wild, unconventional and daring" artist and former addict who befriends our sick little antihero.
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As one of the new NBC regime's first orders of business, Heroes creator Tim Kring has inked a new two-year deal — one of the biggest in television, says the Hollywood Reporter — under which he will continue as show-runner for the hit series and its forthcoming spin-off, Heroes: Origins, as well as develop new projects for NBC Universal Television Studio.ABC Studios has bought out the final year of Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence's contract with NBC Universal and added three additional years to it, in a new, eight-figure deal. Per Variety, Lawrence will stay in charge of Scrubs (which is produced by the ABC shingle) while developing new projects for the Alphabet. In a statement, Lawrence quips, "My goal is to get a comedy on the air before the genre goes away for good." I in turn quip, "Hurry!"
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Zach Braff by Karen Neal/NBC
It looks like the upcoming Fletch prequel won't be the all-out Scrubs affair we had hoped for.A scheduling conflict has forced Zach Braff to turn down the lead in Fletch Won, the in-the-works big-screen Fletch prequel that's being shepherded by Scrubs bossman Bill Lawrence."Zach is writing and directing his own film [Open Hearts] at Paramount," says Lawrence, who's currently in New York searching for a new Fletch. "I'm very happy for him. We were looking forward to doing this thing together, but when you get an opportunity like that, you've got to take it."But Lawrence and Braff won't be apart for long — in August they'll begin work on Scrubs' seventh (and final) season. The only question is which network it'll air on. Lawrence confirms that ABC, which owns the show, still plans on picking it up should NBC cancel it. "I would've written a series finale [this season] if there was any chance the show was going to be canceled," he says. "I was going to end the show, and the good p...
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Zach Braff, Scrubs
Tonight at 9 pm/ET, Scrubs fans are in for quite a treat, as NBC presents a nearly all-musical episode of the medical comedy. There is singing and dancing, and even a ditty about doodie. TVGuide.com spoke with series creator Bill Lawrence, a big musical-theater fan, to find out why he suddenly felt the urge to have his comedy break out into song. "The tough part for us is always trying to make it organic to the show," says Lawrence. "We wouldn't have done [a musical], except that our medical advisor on the show stumbled onto this case where somebody had an aneurysm and was hearing everything in music. Obviously, they weren't hearing an entire Broadway musical with singing and dancing, but for us in the world of Scrubs, that works."
It didn't hurt that writer
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