Why do you think NBC decided ...
Question: Why do you think NBC decided to leave
Scrubs off its new Thursday lineup?
Answer: The generous response would be that NBC thinks highly enough of
Scrubs that it has scheduled back-to-back episodes on Tuesdays starting this week (9 pm/ET), figuring it would be riskier to air untested comedies in the time period and that a one-two punch of
Scrubs is just what the doctor ordered. But why be generous? To me, it's just the latest in a seemingly unending series of bad decisions by NBC's programming department.
Scrubs has been ill-treated all season. On the heels of its Emmy nominations, it was kept off the air for the first half of the season, and now is dumped on Tuesdays with
Fear Factor as the worst imaginable lead-in. On the revamped Thursday lineup, which NBC in theory should be using as a showcase of its best comedies if it truly hopes to rebuild that "must-see" franchise,
Scrubs again gets the shaft, in favor of a dying show (
Will & Grace), a brain-dead new show (
Four Kings) and an overrated cult show (
The Office). I'll say it again: Why not see how
Scrubs plays with
My Name Is Earl? What could it hurt?
