{"id":328433,"date":"2026-03-04T12:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/328433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:51:17","slug":"11-4-million-viewers-in-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/328433\/","title":{"rendered":"11.4 Million Viewers in Five Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cScrubs<\/a>\u201d returned to ABC<\/a> after 16 years last week, and it seems that much of its old audience has come back too. The first episode of the reboot hit 11.4 million viewers in the five days following its premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat total comes from a combination of Nielsen\u2019s measurement of viewers who tuned into ABC\u2019s initial telecast and encore airings plus Disney\u2019s own data regarding streamings on Hulu and other digital platforms. Per Disney, \u201cScrubs\u201d achieved ABC\u2019s most-streamed comedy episode and most-streamed series premiere in more than a year. The previous record holder was the Tim Allen and Kat Dennings-led series \u201cShifting Gears,\u201d which premiered on Jan. 8, 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn broadcast, \u201cScrubs\u201d was the most-watched comedy among adults age 18-49 since the \u201cShifting Gears\u201d launch and the crossover episode between \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u201d that aired on the same night, excluding telecasts that benefitted from lead-in from an NFL game.<\/p>\n

\n\tCreated by Bill Lawrence, \u201cScrubs\u201d originally premiered in 2001 on NBC, where it aired for seven seasons before moving to ABC for Seasons 8 and 9. The official description for the reboot of the medical sitcom reads, \u201cJD (Zach Braff) and Turk (Donald Faison) scrub in together for the first time in a long time: Medicine has changed; interns have changed; but their bromance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way.\u201d Along with Braff and Faison, returning cast members include Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, John C. McGinley and more. Lawrence executive produces alongside Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer through his Doozer Productions banner; Braff; Faison; Chalke; showrunner Aseem Batra; and Randall Winston. 20th Television is the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cScrubs\u201d returned to ABC after 16 years last week, and it seems that much of its old audience…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2976,93,61,60,71004,282],"class_list":["post-328433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-scrubs","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}