Last summer, there years after Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence talked about his plan to revive the series, ABC officially ordered the revival to series. Right out the gate, Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke were announced to be respectively reprising J.D., Turk and Elliot for this midseason offering on the 2026 TV schedule. CinemaBlend also recently learned that one of the Scrubs revival’s new actors was with Braff when it was announced that one of the best sitcoms of all time was returning.
David Gridley stars in the Scrubs revival’s first season (Season 10 overall) as Blake Lewis, one of the medical interns that J.D. is teaching in his new position as Sacred Heart’s Chief of Medicine. But before Gridley was cast in Scrubs, he was working with Braff on a different Bill Lawrence-created show by the name of Rooster, which also premiered a few weeks ago and can be streamed with an HBO Max subscription. Gridley recalled the following when I asked him, as well as his co-star Amanda Morrow, about what it was like working with the Scrubs OGs at the beginning:
