Scrubs coming back, but it will look very different

While Sacred Heart will still be a part of Scrubs, the emphasis will shift away from the hospital that has served as the main backdrop for the sitcom for the past eight years.

The comedy will shift to a medical school setting, though familiar faces will still be around.

From Entertainment Weekly:

Scrubs boss Bill Lawrence said his cancellation-defying comedy would undergo an extreme makeover in its ninth season, and, man, he wasn't kidding. When the show returns next winter, the action will shift from the hospital to the classroom and make med-school professors of John C. McGinley's Dr. Cox and Donald Faison's Turk.

"It'll be a lot like Paper Chase as a comedy," Lawrence tells me. "It's going to be a different show. It'll still be life-and-death stakes, but if the show is just Scrubs again in the hospital with a different person's voiceover, it would be a disaster and people would be mad."

Zach Braff is leaving the show and Neil Flynn (aka the janitor) won't be around as he is costarring in his own sitcom. Sarah Chalke also will not be on the show.