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In Bill Lawrence's interview with our own Joel Keller, he said: "There's going to be a new young lady with a voice over and she's either going to be funny and talented and great, or the show's gonna crater."

Well, now we know who that young lady is and I'm sure Kerry Bishe (Virtuality) will be thrilled to find out that Lawrence is hinging the entire success of Scrubs 2.0 on her. No pressure! She joins Dave Franco, cast earlier this week, and Michael Mosley to complete the new faces of Scrubs (Med School?).

Besides being the new narrative voice for the show, and presumably the lead, Bishe will be a 22-year old first-year med student. She's the first in her family of fisherman to go to college. Mosley, the other new cast member signed today, is ten years older than the rest of the students, the result of a major meltdown a decade earlier when he was at Harvard. So this is his second chance.

It's also the second chance for Scrubs, as it tries to re-brand itself as a medical school comedy rather than a hospital comedy. With a largely new cast, and largely new classroom sets, even Bill Lawrence isn't thrilled that ABC wants to continue calling it Scrubs (you did read that interview, right?). It's not like this is ER, where they're just shifting out cast members and bringing in new ones. They're changing the whole tone and focus of the series.

I don't see why a subtitle like Scrubs: Med School would be such a big deal; I've got my fingers crossed that Lawrence can at least pull that off. The new show's going to find a much better chance of success if potential new viewers aren't seeing at the ninth season of a show they already didn't watch, but rather the first season of something spinning out of something they've always heard about. Curiosity would at least be a little higher.

Unfortunately, Lawrence is right about one thing. In order for this to work, Eliza Coupe, Bishe and the rest of the newcomers are going to have to step up and carry this show. Here's hoping they can pull it off.

[via IGN]