Sending this letter is going to be a proper bitch for me, and will cost as much as a tub of Ben & Jerry's to send this from London to America, but I'll do it anyway because I love Scrubs. And I think you do too, and airmail costs are worth it!!
Anyway, here's the letter. It's not great:
Stephen McPherson,
President, ABC Entertainment
ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551
Dear Mr McPherson,
I write to you as a fifteen year-old girl living in London, with a wish shared by millions. That wish is for your network’s long-running comedy, Scrubs to continue. It has lasted eight years incredibly successfully, with a fairly constant level of ratings keeping it afloat. However, this year, as I know you know, there has been quite a significant dip. I understand fully the message this sends to your network: the show’s fan base has dwindled, and it clearly does not have the same appeal it once had.
Perhaps this is true. I can’t deny the ratings, but I can try and justify them to you. As someone who has been watching this season, and its predecessors, on the Internet (fear not, I still watch it when it enters British screens and always buy the DVD box sets, plus much other merchandise, so am not costing your company anything), I can see there has been a significant change in the show’s dynamics. What, I think, many of the viewers don’t realise, is that this change is on purpose. Most Scrubs watchers don’t read interviews with the cast and crew of the program, so they don’t realise that this entire season has been viewed as a spin-off, with the same title purely for convenience. I know in the commercials it was stated that “everything’s new- except for the title”, but many people would not have seen that, or taken it seriously.
Obviously now it is too late to change the show’s name, but I feel that now this season has improved as brilliantly as it has, and now that people are more comfortable with the idea of a new cast, it could become really successful if it continues. Even if it doesn’t, the show still has a massive ‘cult’ fan base. I for one can honestly, if slightly ashamedly, admit that Scrubs is my life. I genuinely don’t know what I would do without it. The writing is consistently sharp and funny, the cast are so talented, charismatic and charming; and the whole premise of the show and the storylines are ones that never get old or become tedious, which is why they are constantly borrowed by other television programs. Scrubs really is not ready to finish. And I’m not ready to let it.
That is why I have joined an Internet campaign called Save Our Scrubs (SOS), and started a blog in support of the cause (http://www.saveourscrubs.blogspot.com/). There are thousands of people behind SOS, all campaigning to save our mutual love. So please, Mr McPherson, make this all worthwhile and continue Scrubs, even if it is just to see how it fares. If any show deserves a tenth season, it’s this one.
Yours sincerely,
Tushara Rose
Ben and Jerry want you to send a letter.
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