Bill Lawrence, creator of the medical comedy Scrubs, expresses his support for the show's planned reboot, dismissing concerns that it will tarnish the original's legacy. Lawrence highlights the enthusiasm of the cast and the availability of talented writers, emphasizing that reboots don't inherently detract from beloved shows. He even suggests enjoying reboots, even if they're not great, as an opportunity for lighthearted criticism among friends.
) of them up as cash grabs, Bill Lawrence , creator of the latter show, disagrees. “I’ll start with, if I thought it was a bad idea, I wouldn’t do it,” he tells the. “I’m not chasing commerce and without being self-aggrandizing, I don’t need to.” The cast, however, really wants to work together again, and there are a lot of talented writers with open schedules, he explains—an unfortunate effect of the industry squeezing.
“Someone was like, ‘I hope this doesn’t happen.’ That made me incredulous,” Lawrence says later. “Like, why the f— would you care if it happened? He’s like, ‘I just love the show so much, it would tarnish it.’ I don’t think that’s true. Shows that I care about have had reboots.”It seems, in Lawrence’s view, that not only do the reboots not detract from the original show, but you can still enjoy hate-watching them, at worst. “This is my attitude: If it’s a show I love, I’m gonna watch it.
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