Comedy Central Scrubs Up

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Comedy Central has bought off-network episodes of Scrubs to begin fall 2006.

Scrubs began airing in 2001 on NBC. It has aired 83 episodes already and Comedy has a deal for the upcoming fifth season as well.

Comedy will share the syndication window for the Buena Vista show with WGN-TV, which will have the show in late night, while Comedy gets for prime time.The half-hour sitcom is produced by Touchstone TV and distributed by Buena Vista TV, both owned by Disney.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.