If you haven’t heard, NBC has officially cancelled Scrubs, which has resulted in untold carnage throughout the world. That second part may be made up, but it’s still pretty bad news.

All hope is not lost, though, since it’s being reported that ABC has decided to take another network’s hilarious but ratings challenged show after cancelling its own (Carpoolers died much too young).

NBC will air six more new episodes of Scrubs this season, beginning this Thursday, April 10. (Woo!) The cast finished shooting episode “712″ (the 12th episode of season seven) on Monday, which is the last episode that will be shown on NBC. However! The production train keeps on chugging.

According to sources on set, Scrubs began shooting an episode on Tuesday that is being numbered as “713/800.” (Meaning, it is the 13th episode in production this season but is scheduled to air in season eight.) The cast and crew will shoot through August and are expected to end on episode 816.

Those episodes—yes, 16 of them by my count—are slated to air on ABC.

Source: E!

While we’re on the subject of Scrubs, there’s some related casting news for Oliver Stone’s movie about President Bush the second. Elizabeth Banks, who plays the accidental mother of JD’s child on the show, has been cast as Laura Bush. From what I hear, Josh Brolin (playing the President) isn’t complaining.

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Greg Jackson, trainer to the MMA stars, has revealed the true brilliance behind his training, his ability to think outside the box and inside the strip club:

Thanks to mmamania for linking to the video and proelite.com for producing it.

If you’re not already planning to, be sure to watch Shamrock Vs. Cung Le on Showtime tonight. It should be an exciting style fight:

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Variety just informed me personally (by personally, I mean through their website) that every episode of South Park is available for viewing online through the newly launched southparkstudios.com.

Clips, not full episodes, can be embedded like so:

Entire episodes can be linked.

The site is still in beta, and I’ve already come across a bug in the video overlay functionality, but the videos themselves play fine and look decent. Also, they’re following the commercial break revenue model, so no free rides here.

I’ve been watching South Park for years, but have had entire episode runs go by unseen. These new fangled internets may come in handy after all.

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The cast of BSG invaded The Late Show with David Letterman this week and destroyed the talk show host and leader of the Cylons. Either that, or they just showed up to share the ‘Top 10 reasons to watch Battlestar Galactica.’

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In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

Variety is reporting that the A-team movie set for release by FOX on June 12, 2009. John Singleton’s directing, but there’s no cast, yet.

I think there’s a lot of potential here, for good and for evil. Let’s hope they get it right, because I pity the fools that mess up the A-team movie.

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The final season of Battlestar Galactica is getting ready to launch (April 4th). We know it’s the final season because we were told ahead of time by the show’s creators. That’s something rare and to be appreciated in the entertainment business: The conscious decision of content providers to let the content determine the length of its run more than its ratings.

Whether it’s great shows getting killed too soon (hold on Jericho!), crappy shows overstaying their welcome (the reality TV genre, in general), or once great shows slipping to good (Stargate SG1) or worse (My Name is Earl), the norm is to follow the money, not the quality.

The producers of Lost have also put a cap on their island in a bottle, although the writer’s strike has modified that plan a bit.

The point, which has surely been lost somewhere in the past few paragraphs, is that knowing that Battlestar Galactica will end on its own terms is a good thing. There’s always a catch, though, and here it is:

It has been confirmed that the long rumored and scantily reported spin-off, Caprica is in fact a go project. SCI FI Channel has given the green light to a two-hour “backdoor” pilot for the series – which means it’ll air as a TV movie (not unlike the promotion and rollout for “Razor”) – and if that’s successful it’ll get a series commitment from the network. The project is currently slated to shoot this spring and air in the fall. IGN

I’m a big BSG fan, don’t get me wrong, but I sincerely hope they take this show in a different enough direction that it is able to serve as more than just a reminder of how great that other show was. From the description [Dallas, in space (it could work)], that’s their goal.

I can’t help but hear a bomb coming, though. Make the show too different, and you lose the original audience. Keep it too close, and you would have been better off not cancelling the original in the first place. “All of this has happened before,” as they say.

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