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i dont think its an issue of 'making it' or not for scrubs. as far as i know it will be the final season so as long as it doesnt get canceled mid season its going to be good for scrubs and their fans.

Not only do I doubt Bill Lawrence would continue for more than a season, but I seriously doubt Zach Braff would put his movie career on hold for a 9th season.

Taxi switched from ABC to NBC and, you guessed it, lasted a year.

"JAG" had one season on NBC then switched to CBS for nine or ten more years. "My Three Sons" ran on ABC from 1960-1965, then on CBS from 1965-1972. I have a suspicion though that it is easier for a show that aired for one season to successfully change networks than it is for a show that aired for five years on a network to last after it switches ("Buffy" being one exception to that rule).

Ann, Buffy lasted for two seasons after moving to UPN.

I doubt it will be HD even with the switch happens. In the UK atm there's some grumblings about Doctor Who not being shot in HD while Torchwood is.

Now the reason this is happening despite them having access to the equipment and the skills to shoot Doctor Who in HD is simply due to the fact that the shows a legacy show that started production before the BBC had a hd channel. The sets, the costumes, the props ect ect were from the off produced to a standard suitable for a SD shoot and to now shoot in HD would look awful and certainly nowhere near the level needed to be suitable for whats supposed to be a current show.

Sets need rebuilt and redressed to a higher quality, props need recreated to a higher quality, costumes need redone to a higher quality ect ect all of which is expensive and time consuming.

Now this is probably the exact reason scrubs never switched, infact alot of legacy shows didn't switch when HD started being the preferred choice as theres just no point in switching something at the cost required when its like Scrubs and is on shakey ground or in the case of something like Friends (Which wasnt HD despite Joey being HD 6 months later) is coming to the end of its run. You make the expensive shift only when a show is almost certainly going to have a pretty long run

Actually, Scrubs has never gone HD because of its production company (ahem, ABC), and not because of NBC. They didn't want to invest the money in HD equipment for the show--probably because it ran NBC, so they could be the reason that NBC was the last network to run an SD-only scripted primetime show.

I doubt we'll see a change of heart for the 8th season, since it will definitely be the last. But I could be wrong.

What's WEIRD is how the (mentally counts backward...) 5th season finale aired in HD. It was the only episode that did so. Gotta wonder why that happened. Maybe ABC first adopted this idea to shift the show from NBC to ABC way back then, so they wanted to tease fans ("It'll be HD next season-- and on ABC!"), only to have NBC come through in the off-season?