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Monday, August 8 2011

First Impressions Count: The Importance of TV Pilots

It’s one of entertainment's must cutthroat tryouts. The modern TV viewer knows what they want. Failure to deliver on such expectations can spell doom for a new program.


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Tuesday, December 4 2007

Scrubs: The Complete Sixth Season

Despite an unnecessary return to J.D. and Elliott's relationship, Season Six still holds plenty of the Scrubs we look forward to.


Thursday, July 5 2007

Scrubs - The Complete Fifth Season

Without a doubt, the show's writers saw the rich vein of laughs they could mine from what quickly became staples of the show.


Wednesday, January 24 2007

Scrubs: My Musical

While I can appreciate Scrubs' adventurous spirit, this catastrophe can only be described as an indulgent, sloppy waste of time.


Thursday, May 19 2005

Scrubs: The Complete First Season

Scrubs is, at its worst, a competent sitcom, and at its best, a shortlist candidate for best scripted program of the post-Seinfeld era.


Monday, October 1 2001

Scrubs

While J.D. is running from pages and hiding in closets, Turk 'is learning by doing,' cutting, poking, and defibrillating with gusto.


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Wednesday, December 16 2009

Memo to 'Scrubs': Spin Off Ted and Gooch

Scrubs is back with some of the same characters and all the old plot lines. So why did they leave out the greatest sad sack in the history of television and his ukulele playing girlfriend?


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