TV Squad recently sat down an interviewed Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence, and he revealed a rather large bombshell about the upcoming 8th season on ABC. It may not be the series’ last.

ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson has been a fan of the show for a very long time, and told Bill from the very start of discussions about moving the show to ABC that ‘If I go forward with this, you have to know that if the show does well and I’m enjoying it, no matter what you want, I have the right to move on with the show past this year,’.

Bill goes on to say that if that does happen, it would be in a different capacity than the show currently stands. Much like ER, which has continued through multiple casts for many years, Scrubs could continue on with the new Interns being introduced in Season 8 becoming the main focus of the series in Season 9, with some, but not all of the Scrubs regulars staying with the show.

Zach Braff and Bill Lawrence, however, are almost assuredly gone after this year. Neither is interested in continuing for another season, and everyone involved is treating the show like its the last season, regardless of what ABC wants.

If the show does continue, however, it will be interesting to see where it goes. NBC has always treated this show like crap – so much so, that I didn’t even discover it on NBC. I found in it syndication. I think a lot of others have too, and it might be that this series is just getting warmed up.

Who knows? If they do go with a “next gen” concept for Season 9…I’ll give it a shot at least.