EXCLUSIVE: Former Saturday Night Live writer/performer John Higgins, member of the Please Don’t Destroy comedy group, has joined the cast of ABC’s Scrubs for a major recurring role in the upcoming second season of the revival.

He will play Grant, the new Chief Resident, who is envisioned as a thorn in J.D.’s side the way he himself once was for Dr. Cox.

Donald Faison alluded to the casting at D23’s “Scrubs: Scrubbing Back” panel Saturday moderated by Scott Foley — who is returning to the show next season as Sean Kelly — and featuring series stars/executive producers Braff (John “J.D.” Dorian), Faison (Christopher Turk) and Sarah Chalke (Elliot Reid), along with showrunner/executive producer Aseem Batra.

“John Higgins joins the cast, it’s been a lot of fun to watch him work, actually him and Ava Bunn, who plays Tosh. They’ve been great additions,” Faison said.

Nearly a year after they first appeared onscreen together in Regretting You, Mason Thames and McKenna Grace are playing romantic opposites again.

Following Colleen Hoover romance’s premiere last October, Thames recently revealed he had already worked with Grace on the Green Day-inspired movie Nimrods, which is now playing in theaters.

“So we did Green Day first. Green Day movie first, and then we did Regretting You right after,” he explained to People. “But it was just so wild. The coincidence of two back-to-back is awesome and we love it.”

Thames added, “I’m so happy that we can finally release it to everybody, because it’s felt like my little secret and my little experience, but I really hope people go to see it and feel the love that was used to make this movie, because I’m really happy with it.”

After playing romantic opposites twice now, the real-life couple is open to working together again. “If we were ever going to do another job together, we’d want it to be so special and so awesome, so whenever that moment arises, we’re going to snatch it up,” said Thames.

In Nimrods, Tommy (Thames) receives a call inviting him and his band Analog Dogs to open for Green Day on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles. Not realizing it’s his older brother Wayne (Keen Ruffalo) pulling an elaborate prank, Tommy steals Wayne’s car and sets off on a cross-country roadtrip from Kansas City with his bandmates Fred (Kylr Coffman) and Chad (Ryan Foust).

Along the way, Tommy meets fellow punk Olivia (Grace) and strikes up a flirtation after seeing her perform live. Both Thames and Grace appear on the movie’s soundtrack.

“I mean, those kids are fantastic. They can do anything,” raved co-writer/director Lee Kirk to Deadline. “And they’re the nicest kids, creative kids, very eager. They were up for whatever we wanted to do. I was so lucky that McKenna wanted to do it and she wanted to put her song in the movie. I just felt like it gave it some authenticity to it, and Mason with his singing, he rehearsed, he worked on those songs, which were written by Billie Joe [Armstrong’s] son, by the way. Yeah, Jakob wrote those songs for the Analog Dogs.”

Everyone grab your webshooters because it’s undoubtedly Spidey season. 

During a Saturday panel at D23 expo, a group of presenters that include Marvel studio’s president Kevin Feige, Spider-Man: Brand New Day actor Jacob Batalon and Disney+’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man showrunner Jeff Trammell hit the stage to celebrate 65 years of Spider-Man.

Though Peter doesn’t look a day older than his perpetual mid-teens to late 20s, the iconic webslinger has certainly earned his 401k pension and retirement plan these past six decades. 

Reflecting on Spider-Man’s ever growing popularity which has now expanded more than ever across the forms of an entire Spider-Verse, several highest grossing films, TV shows, video games and more comics, Feige and Batalon discussed the superhero’s legacy.

“There is so much story to tell, that even after 65 years, we’re just starting,” said Feige.

After ribbing Feige about getting his “own show,” Batalon added, “Truly just, wherever the story takes us, we’re willing to follow. I feel like we all work with amazing people who make great things and just want to be a part of something you all love.”

Although Tom Holland wasn’t present, he graced attendees with a video message. “Playing Peter Parker is my dream, and getting to live that dream has been one of the greatest privileges of my career,” he said.

Surprises revealed today on the Premiere stage included the announcement of an interview between Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s Tom Holland and Destin Daniel Cretton which will be featured in the upcoming milestone comic Amazing Spider-Man #1000. The several story issue, coming out in September, will follow Spider-Man as he faces his first new fear-inducing and formidable villain in decades named Ravage. It will also mark Noah Hawley’s debut comic 

Disney+’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2, dropping January 2027, teased the introduction Eddie Brock, working for the Daily Bugle, as Doc Oc attacks a gala and kidnaps Harry Osborn after a brief fight with Spidey, who is exposed to Venom’s symbiote.