July 10 (UPI) -- ABC announced Thursday that it has ordered a revival of Scrubs. The announcement confirmed Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke are returning as their characters.
Braff previously confirmed his return for the revival, then in development, in May. Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence is also returning. Tim Hobert and Aseem Batra will showrun.
Braff, Faison, Chalke, Lawrence, Hobert and Batra are executive producers along with Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer.
Scrubs originally ran for nine seasons, on NBC from 2001 -- 2009 and ABC from 2009 -- 2010.
In the original series, J.D. (Braf), Turk (Faison) and Elliot (Chalke) were medical interns at Sacred Heart Hospital. By the final season, they were established doctors mentoring a new crop of interns.
