Itll be a lot likeThe Paper Chaseas a comedy, explainsScrubscreator Bill Lawrence of the shows upcoming ninth season.

Its going to be a different show.

Of course, Sacred Heart wont go away altogether.

[ABC] is really after us to hire a big name, he reveals.

So one of them will be fairly famous.

No one was more relieved by the characters stay of execution than Ellis himself.

I thought I was a goner, the actor confesses.

But Ball says the decision to save Lafayette was made much earlier during production of the pilot.

The first time we shot Nelsan, it was obvious that he was a special talent, he recalls.

I knew at that point the show could not lose him.

phones Dr. John Carter

Steven Spielberg is pursuing Noah Wyle to headline his as-yet-untitled alien-invasion pilot for TNT.

Wyle would play the leader of a ragtag group of citizens who venture to bring down the aggressors.

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