Original title: Judy Reyes Boards ‘Scrubs’ Revival at ABC
Another member of the Sacred Heart Hospital staff will be on call for ABC’s Scrubs revival. Judy Reyes has signed on to the show to reprise her role as Carla Espinosa, Sacred Heart’s head nurse and Dr. Chris Turk’s (Donald Faison) wife. She’ll recur on Scrubs and be billed as a special guest star while continuing her series regular role on another ABC series, High Potential. Reyes joins Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke and and Faison in the revival, which ABC formally picked up in July after several months of development. It’s set for a midseason premiere in 2025-26. Reyes was a regular on eight of Scrubs’ nine seasons on NBC and ABC; she didn’t appear in the final, medical school-set ABC season. The show explained her absence at the time by saying she left her hospital post after giving birth to her and Turk’s second child. After several years of the Scrubs cast and creator Bill Lawrence discussing a revival, the show went into development in late 2024. Braff signed on to reprise his role of