The guy who created ‘Scrubs’ tells us about selling Apple on his newest idea

[Andy Meek]

• Apple TV Plus, the iPhone maker's Netflix-like streaming service, added a new comedy series over the weekend.
• Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis, is a show about a small-town football coach who's given the opportunity to coach a professional soccer team in England.
• The show comes at a time when Apple appears poised to start offering new subscription bundles of its services, like Apple TV+.

About three weeks after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, a quirky sitcom about life inside a hospital starring Zach Braff made its debut on NBC.

Scrubs, created by Bill Lawrence, couldn’t have come at a better time. TV guys like Lawrence will try to convince you -- like he insisted to me, during a recent interview about his newest show Ted Lasso, which just debuted on Apple TV+ -- that especially during a time of collective trauma, something as pedestrian as a sitcom can pull off the too easily dismissed magic trick of making people smile again. And that if you as a creator, writer, and showrunner can balance a ribald sense of humor with some sort of heartfelt message about the inherent decency of everyday people -- that’s the stuff that fame, fortune, and everlasting TV glory are made of. Okay, minus the fortune and the glory.

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