Scrubs star Zach Braff is set to become one of the highest paid actors on TV if the hit sitcom gets renewed by US network NBC for a seventh season. According to sources, the 31-year-old actor has landed a deal that will earn him around $350,000 (£179,000) per episode for the 2007-08 season. The new deal will put him in the top echelon of highest-paid male actors on US television, alongside Two And Half Men star Charlie Sheen, whose paycheque is also in the $350,000 per episode range. Braff shot to fame as intern Dr John 'J.D' Dorian when the show premiered on NBC in 2001. Created by Bill Lawrence the situation comedy is based at fictional teching hospital Sacred Heart.

At the end of series six there were rumors that Braff wanted to leave the show but creator Bill Lawrence intended to continue without his leading man despite Lawrence hinting that the show was to end at when series 6 finished. But the show is to go ahead for a seventh and final series with all of the principle cast on board.But actor Zack Braff really made a name for himself in 2004 when he wrote, directed and stared in the film Garden State.

Braff recieved a host of nominations for best new director and best break through film artist winning at the Ohio Film Critics Association and Chicargo Film Critics Association awards. In 2006 he returned to the big screen when he stared in The Last Kiss along side Blythe Danner and The OC's Rachel Bilson.

He is set to go behind the camera again in 2007 when he directs Open Hearts which is currently in pre-production and cement himself as the most multitalented actor, director in Hollywood.

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