Ah, sometimes synergy has its rewards. The much-derided corporate cooperation game may yet give us another season of the hospital comedy Scrubs, despite NBC having "cancelled" it.

Thursday, May 8, 2008 could have gone down in history as the comedy's final telecast if that network had its way. And no wonder. Despite its cult fanbase, Scrubs still draws relatively miniscule ratings in NBC's Thursday comedy lineup. (Which is saying something, considering how not-well most of the other series do.) And there's no upside, right? The show's been on the air for seven years. It's not like it's going to "grow" ratings.

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