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Potato potato, I suppose. Ultimately what counts is the creators intent, and how it’s categorized on IMDB / TVDB.
In Scrub’s case, it’s interesting to know that season 8 was intended as the final season, and what became season 9 (basically without the key stars) was to be a new show. ABC called it season 9, so it’s canonically season 9. Now it’s been stated that the new show is, if anything, a continuation of season 8, not 9.
It can go both ways. On one hand, you've got Roseanne, Mad About You, Murphy Brown. On the other, Fuller House, Saved By The Bell, Scrubs (2026). I'm sure part of which way it falls is dependent on contracts and which networks are involved.
Another interesting example is that The Pitt (allegedly) was pitched and initially developed as an ER spinoff, but that when a deal couldn't be made over the ER rights, the team went ahead and changed the characters with Noah Wyle still attached as the lead ER doctor. The Michael Crichton estate is suing, saying it's still a spinoff, but Warner is arguing that it's different enough and that ER's owners don't own the rights to any and all emergency room dramas starring its former cast.
My spouse and I were talking about this last week. We came to the conclusion that as good as ER was, it was more of a network drama than the uber-competent fact-based show The Pitt is, and that in the end we’re glad it’s a new show with a new setting and an almost entirely new cast.
Gotta side with Warners on this, Crichton is dead and his estate certainly doesn’t own emergency room tv shows. They probably overplayed their hand in negotiation, and in the end I’m glad it’s a new show instead of a reboot.