John may be guest star on Cougar Town next season

The hilarious show Cougar Town on ABC was created by Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs. This season, one of the cast from Scrubs will be guest starring on the show. I'm not sure if they will be doing this individually or if we will get more than one from the list. But it will be nice to see some of them again.

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"I promise you either Sarah Chalke, Zach Braff, John C. McGinley, Donald Faison or Judy Reyes will be on the show this year," Bill tells us of his favorite Scrubsers infiltrating the Cougar crew's second season.

Colin Fitz Lives! finally gets released

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After 13 years in the can, Colin Fitz Lives! is finally getting released. Not to DVD, but to Sundance Select channel for the next three months. I dont think I have this, but if anyone is able to copy and burn this to DVD for me, let me know. I desperately want to see it.

Happy birthday John!

I'd like to wish John a happy 51st birthday today! I hope to see him on the silver or small screen again soon. I am going through withdrawal.

Congratulations to John and Nicole!

They have just welcomed a second daughter Kate Aleena McGinley on Thursday, June 24 at 5:57 pm in Los Angeles.

My best wishes and congratulations go out to him and his family on this very special occasion.

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Scrubs has officially been canceled.

Sad news today, Scrubs has officially been canceled. I'm not entirely upset, but it will be sad not seeing John on screen each week. I've gotten accustomed to it over the last nine years.

I'd love to see him do some more movies or even another TV show. Only time will tell what his next project will be.

I'd like to thank NBC and ABC for giving us 9 great seasons and the cast and crew of the show for keeping me entertained. It was a blast.

John's Huffington Post article.

John has written an article for the Huffington Post where he talks about "Spread the word to end the word"

You can read the article HERE.

Please do what you can to help stop the use of the "R Word", as well as any other derogatory word used towards people.

The final episode of Scrubs ever (for real this time)

It seems as if the finale for the season on March 17th will be its last.

Sad, the ratings weren't there, most of the cast left and they kept bouncing it around in the schedule.

More info here

I hope John goes on to do some great stuff soon, I hate not having him on TV each week.

John has fun with family in Big Bear City, CA

Pics of John and his family out snowtubing this weekend. Pics HERE

End the word PSA from John

www.r-word.org

The end of Scrubs as we know it? For real this time?

Seems the ratings of Scrubs' return are less than ideal. They ordered 13 episodes, with a backorder of 9 more if it went well. Seems as if ABC is not ordering the last 9. From EW's Michael Ausiello:

Short to the point, from Aussiello:

Question: Will ABC order the back-nine episodes of Scrubs? I’m loving the new direction, and I don’t want the show to end on an unresolved note in episode 13. —Rion
Ausiello: I’m afraid I’ve only got bad news here. No back-nine, and no closure in episode 13. “It’s just a routine episode,” says an insider of what could turn out to be the show’s series finale. “There’s no special moment or anything.”

Hmm, so I guess this could be it guys. I like the new reincarnation, but having lost almost all the old cast, it doesn't feel the same to me anymore. I'm glad to see John in anything, but I fear the american public just doesn't feel the same way anymore about the show. It's a sad way to end the series, as the finale last season was well done and a great way to say goodbye to all our friends at Sacred Heart.

Time will tell now.

John on KTLA talking about Scrubs

I found this video online, but the embedded video claims it is Ted McGinley. A little research would be nice KTLA!

Scrubs starts again this Tuesday

The new season and incarnation of Scrubs starts this Tuesday at 9 on ABC. There are 2 new episodes.

As you may know, most of the cast is gone, with the exception of John C McGinley, Donald Faison and Ken Jenkins. Others will have smaller roles for a few episodes, namely Zach Braff.

Word on the street is this new incarnation is as funny as the original series, so the outlook looks good.

Scrubs Season 9 promo pictures

Here is a press release and pictures from the redone upcoming season of Scrubs:

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Scrubs is back December 1st

The new season (and incarnation) of Scrubs will premiere on ABC on December 1st, along with the other midseason premier of Better Off Ted.

Set your TiVos and DVR's!

Blue Angels repost

I had previously posted this video, but it seems to have been removed by youtube. Here is another version of it for you to watch. John is flying with the Blue Angels.

Intensity on Youtube

Someone has split apart the Intensity made for tv movie and posted it up on youtube.com. If you haven't seen it yet, now the perfect opportunity. It is split up into 20 parts. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9qxiM9piZw

Click the uploaders name to see the other parts.

John interviews about the Buddy Walk

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Actor and role model John C. McGinley, spokesperson for the 2009 National Buddy Walk for the National Down Syndrome Society, has a lot to say about the charity event.

‘I’m proud to be part of the National Down Syndrome Society’s Buddy Walk program because it’s meant so much to me and my son, Max. Max is fun, smart and silly. He loves to play with his friends, draw pictures, and go to school. And he also happens to have Down syndrome… I hope you’ll consider joining a Buddy Walk in your local area. It’s an incredible day of celebration with family, friends and people who, like you, want to raise awareness, raise funds, and raise the hope of a better world for all people with Down syndrome.’

Register to be part of a National Down Syndrome Society Buddy Walk in your area today.

John to voice Metallo in new DC animated movie

From the trauma of war in Oliver Stone films to hospital humor on Scrubs, John C. McGinley has covered the acting gamut. But in his
latest role - as the voice of Metallo in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies - McGinley finally gets to delve into a characterization he
has rarely been offered: pure villainy.

McGinley voices one of the featured villains in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, a blockbuster blast of super heroes and villains alike
that includes the voices of Kevin Conroy (Batman), Tim Daly (Superman), Clancy Brown (Lex Luthor), Allison Mack (Power Girl),
Xander Berkeley (Captain Atom), Ricardo Chavira (Major Force), LeVar Burton (Black Lightning), CCH Pounder (Amanda Waller) and a host of others.

Warner Premiere, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation are set to release the all-new Superman/Batman: Public Enemies on September 29, 2009 in a Blu-RayTM Hi-Def edition, a special edition 2-disc DVD, and a single disc DVD. Warner Home Video will distribute the action-packed movie, which will also be available OnDemand and Pay-Per-View as well as available for download that same day.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is based on the popular Jeph Loeb/Ed McGuinness comic series/graphic novel. Animation legend Bruce Timm (Superman Doomsday, Green Lantern) is executive producer. Michael Goguen (Justice League: The New Frontier) is supervising producer. Sam Liu (The Batman) is directing a script written by Stan Berkowitz (Justice League: The New Frontier).

In the film, United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite asteroid to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty on the heads of the Man of Steel and his "partner in crime," Batman. Heroes and villains alike launch a relentless pursuit
of Superman and Batman, who must unite - and recruit help - to stave off the action-packed onslaught, stop the asteroid, and uncover
Luthor's devious plot to take command of far more than North America.

McGinley has crafted a well-rounded career in film and television, forcing audiences to instantly take note with his performances in
Oliver Stone films like Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. McGinley has garnered top-notch reviews for his turns in Any Given
Sunday, Office Space, Wall Street, The Rock, Nixon and Point Break, and he is instantly recognizable to television audiences for his
portrayal of the sarcastic, abusive, hilarious Dr. Cox in 169 episodes of Scrubs. Mc Ginley is also no stranger to animation, having spent
significant hours in the sound booth recording for The Boondocks, Justice League (as The Atom), WordGirl (as The Whammer) and in guest spots on King of the Hill, Kim Possible, Robot Chicken and Spider-Man.

McGinley took a few minutes after his recording session as Metallo to discuss the pleasures of preparation, the similarities of Andrea
Romano and Oliver Stone, his personal commitment the National Down Syndrome Society's Buddy Walk, and the definition around Hollywood casting departments of the "John C. McGinley type." But enough of our words, here are his - a Q&A with John C. McGinley, the voice of Metallo in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.


QUESTION: What were the joys and challenges of getting behind a microphone for a character like Metallo?

JOHN C. MCGINLEY: It's a real treat to collaborate with the creative folks once you get in the booth. Ten out of ten times the people on the other side of the glass know the character better than you are ever going to - they have been working on this for months or years. All you can do is try to return serve because you are given all this wonderful, precise direction. I've found over the years it is really, really helpful to just integrate and go. It's also a treat that the people on the other side of the glass are pretty much the top one percent of their
industry, and I get to have this kind of creative input. You get on a lot of film sets and everybody is rolling the dice. Everybody is
guessing their best. The people in that booth are not guessing, they know this stuff backwards. That to me is a huge asset.

QUESTION: What were your impressions of the script for Superman/Batman: Public Enemies?

JOHN C. MCGINLEY: The fun part for me showing up on any set is the preparation. A lot of times when you are doing a play or a film, things are going to go wrong. You're going to lose the light or the sound is going to stop working. Even in a controlled environment like that booth, which lends itself to things going right and to things flourishing, there are sometimes things that can go wrong and, thus, compromises will need to be made. So it behooves the actor to come loaded for bear. If you are 100 percent ready and we have to make 40 percent compromises, then unless you have that other 60 percent ready it is going to kind of just go flat instead of elevating it. My favorite thing, which may sound a little presumptuous, is to try to elevate the material.

QUESTION: Did you enter the world of super heroes through comic books or otherwise?

JOHN C. MCGINLEY: My earliest memories of Batman are watching the live-action series with Batman and Robin. That was the coolest Batmobile and you had Frank Gorshin as the Riddler and Caesar Romero being the Joker. As far as Superman goes, it was more about the Christopher Reeve films. I was not a comic book reader. When we played as kids, we were always acting out stuff we saw Batman doing , or the Green Hornet or Aquaman. But that inspiration came from Saturday morning cartoons and not proper comic books.

QUESTION: As a non-comics reader, does voicing a comic character still lend itself to some child-like thrill for you?

JOHN C. MCGINLEY: Well, of course, it is big fat privilege to work with these characters - and it is really fun now with Hi-Def. It just kind of jumps off the screen, and the transfers (to Hi-Def) are so beautiful now and perfect. It's completely thrilling because the state of the art has exceeded anybody's wildest expectations. It is astonishing. It is not as fun to see my voice come out of a character as it is really rewarding. To be a tiny component in the evolution of animation as the voice of a character is thrilling.

My son is old enough to hear and recognize my voice coming out of the characters, but it doesn't resonate with him yet. My daughter will,
and that is pretty cool. Not necessarily to be a killer robot, but we will see how things evolve.

QUESTION: Actors tend to be very self-critical. Is it easier to watch an animated film with your voice coming out of a character than it is to watch yourself on-screen in live-action productions?

JOHN C. MCGINLEY: If I have a script early enough, I have a room set aside in our house as a rehearsal space. I set up a camera and I rehearse in front of the camera, especially for Dr. Cox on Scrubs, who has these long two-page, single-space rants. So it is almost like somebody practicing foul shots. It sounds simple - go to the free throw line and shoot a foul shot. But Larry Bird shot a million foul shots in French Lick before he ever tried for Indiana State or the Boston Celtics. So I feel like if you have text early enough, it really is in the actor's best interests to go just hash about in front of a lens.

One thing the lens does is it exposes bad habits. Like an X-ray machine taking a picture of a fracture. We all have nervous ticks, things we do when you can't remember a line. But if you watch yourself, you can see for yourself - the camera exposes those liabilities like an X-ray machine. So yes, I watch myself on film as much as possible because the learning curve just objectively is through the roof.

QUESTION: You've worked with some impressive live-action directors. What's it like working with Andrea Romano in the animated realm?

JOHN C. MCGINLEY: Andrea Romano is not dissimilar to Oliver Stone in a lot of ways, in as much as they're both like a thoroughbred at The Kentucky Derby. They both put on creative blinders like a thoroughbred. Oliver and Andrea both put on blinders and invite you into that narrow creative vision which is the perfect division for the piece. So that you don't have to do anything, you don't have to guess. Come right inside here and it is going to be good. When you come in there with Oliver Stone or with Andrea, it is Nirvana. You will now shine.

QUESTION: We've heard the expression, but can you define a John C. McGinley "type"?

JOHN C. MCGINLEY: The John C. McGinley type usually is one of about seven different things. It is a niche that I fell into, not of my own doing, but it became the part in the films where either you are the best friend, the co-worker, the bad guy, the brother who dies and compels the hero into action in the third act, the boss, now the father of the kids, the head of the hospital usually in a position of authority. For a long time there was a group of us - Ving Rhames, me and about a half a dozen other guys - who would be the component in the story. Who would reiterate the who, what, where, when and how a couple times throughout the movie. You need somebody who can speak the speech without getting in the way of the speech. The hero is not going to do that. So every once in a while throughout the progression of a story, we need to be reminded where the bomb is, when it is going to go off and who the bad guys are. So that the hero can do his job. That "type" has paid the bills for a long time.

QUESTION: You're a bit of a super hero yourself as the national spokesperson for the National Down Syndrome Society's Buddy Walk. What's the essence of this endeavor?

JOHN C. MCGINLEY: The Buddy Walk is our national day of empowerment, encouragement and elevation. There are nearly 300 walks that happen in September and October throughout the United States - and these are great, great days. When you have a child born with special needs, a lot of parents think they did something wrong. They beat themselves up and they don't realize that there is a much larger community out there who also have kids with special needs. This is a day of inclusion, where we want people to know that you have a chance now to be a great parent, which is what it is going to take. The day is as much about including and loving the caregivers as it is about the kids. We attempt to raise money, but that is not really my mantra. It is about coming out and just getting the love. It is all about introducing people to nutritional intervention and further education. It's a short walk - not a marathon, just a mile. And it is a lovely day where we include, elevate and celebrate the similarities that the children and the parents have instead of their differences. It's a very important cause.

For more information, images and updates, please visit the film's official website at www.SupermanBatmanDVD.com.

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Scrubs 2.0? How will the new Scrubs be different than the old Scrubs?

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"Scrubs is over. I wrote the finale." That's what Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence told me Saturday night at ABC's party at the TCA press tour. It might seem like an odd thing to say, considering that the show is very much alive and well on ABC's schedule — so Lawrence explained a little more.

"I'm writing the first Scrubs like it's a new pilot," he said, moving the setting to medical school and introducing a new cast to surround a few of our Sacred Heart regulars. He even wanted to change the name of the show (to Scrubs Med), but that didn't fly with the network, which wanted to keep the Scrubs brand.

Viewers will see plenty of familiar characters, though: John C. McGinley, Donald Faison, and Eliza Coupe are all regulars, and Zach Braff will be around for at least the show's first six episodes. Lawrence and the show's production team built a new set, shooting medical school scenes in a building across from a slightly renovated version of Sacred Heart. And when the characters head out of the classroom and into the hospital, they'll see other familiar faces (including Judy Reyes, Sarah Chalke, Ken Jenkins, and Neil Flynn — who apparently wrote his own exit from the show) whom Lawrence can hire for an episode or two at a time.

Three new major characters will also be introduced; the "new, young actors" are testing with the network this coming week for their roles. And while the tone will be similar to Scrubs (actually, Lawrence described it as Paper Chase with a hospital set), the show's focus truly will be "21-year-old students in med school starting their first day of hospital care."

Lawrence promises Scrubs 2.0 won't be "a lame, pale imitation" of what we've already seen, and that certainly makes me more curious to tune in when the show returns next season after Dancing with the Stars finishes its next run. What about you?

Happy 50th birthday John!

Tomorrow, August 3rd is John's milestone 50th birthday. I just wanted to wish him a great birthday. Thanks for the decades of entertainment, and here's to many more.