Network: FOX
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: September 17, 2014 — February 7, 2015
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Octavia Spencer, Dave Annable, Griffin Gluck, Nolan Sotillo, Charlie Rowe, Astro, Zoe Levin, Ciara Bravo, Mandy Moore, and Rebecca Rittenhouse.
TV show description:
This dramedy is the coming-of-age story of a group of rule-bending friends and the adults who mentor them through the ups and downs of adolescence in Ocean Park Hospital in Los Angeles.
The narrator of the show is Charlie (Griffin Gluck), a 12-year-old who’s in a coma. He introduces the audience to this band of unlikely friends.
Jordi Palacios (Nolan Sotillo) is the “new kid,” a 16-year-old who comes to California by himself to try to get treated by the renowned hospital’s top surgeon.
Charming and independent, Leo Roth (Charlie Rowe) is the 16-year-old leader of the group. His best friend is Dash Hosney (Astro), a 16-year-old rebel with a big personality. He’s determined not to let his cystic fibrosis stop him from living his life.
A know-it-all, 15-year-old Emma Chota (Ciara Bravo) is Leo’s on-again-off-again girlfriend. She’s coping with an eating disorder. Meanwhile, Kara Souders (Zoe Levin) is a “mean girl” cheerleader who shares a room with comatose Charlie. Although her heart is failing, she is realizing for the first time that she actually has one and begins opening it up to her new friends.
The pediatric ward at Ocean Park is run by Nurse Jackson (Octavia Spencer). She’s a caregiver who has a take-no-prisoners approach to helping these teens get the most from their lives. She ends up putting her own life in second place. Her stern manner hides her incredible heart that secretly makes their lives more ordinary.
Nurse Jackson has little use for naïve and gullible Nurse Brittany Dobler (Rebecca Rittenhouse), who allows the teens to get away with things they probably shouldn’t.
Overseeing much of the kids’ treatment is Doctor Adam McAndrew (David Annable), the country’s top pediatric surgeon.
Episode #13 — Waiting for Superman
The group copes with the loss of one of their own, which results in new hope for one of them. Love is in the air as Nurse Jackson and Dr. Naday take things to a new level, however Dash’s love interest could cost him his life. Shocking news leads to new hope and Emma and Kara start facing their family issues.
First aired: February 7, 2015.
What do you think? Do you like the Red Band Society TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Renew!!! I love RBS!
Renew red. Band society I love that show so much it what I look forward to after a long day at school
Can not be pulled fast enough. What is truly wrong with network tv.
Have you even watched more than one episode?
This is the best show out there. It is a shame to cancel it!!
I so LOVE this show…Red Band Society. Look forward to watching EVERY WEEK!!
GREAT SHOW. PLEASE DON’T CANCEL!
Mulaney is a sad new version of Seinfeld, how did this even get on the air a terrible waste of bazillions!!! Yet Red Band is questionable? Some people really get paid way to much! Maybe Fox should take a little more time with what actually goes on the air. I have just about given up network shows. 99 percent of these shows get cancelled. What is the point of wasting everyone’s time. Hire talented writers in the first place.
I love RBS!
Do not cancel, I really enjoy this show.
Personally, I’m happy they cancelled the show. As someone who has survived and managed the effects of a chronic illness for all of my 48 years, I found the show’s characters and situations totally unrealistic and frankly rather insulting. I’ve known around 50 or so pediatric patients from my childhood hospitalization days, and none of us ever a had the strength to form some kind of club. None of us looked half as healthy as the kids on the show. And none of us cared about any of the stuff the kids on the show cared about. It was clear to… Read more »
are you really surprised? It’s FOX, they are the cancel kings of the airwaves. No show gets a second chance, if it doesn’t perform to ungodly heights, then it is gone. They even have been known to order episodes and put the new show at the worst time slots so that it WILL FAIL. It has happened so many times in the past, i have lost count.
This show should definately NOT be cancelled . My 17 year old and I look forward to it every week. We absolutely love this show!
Don’t cancel! What a shame! This is the only genuine show in years!! Informative, warm, diverse and unifying. My kids, husband and myself watch this together. We can all identify in our own ways. My daughter was six years old four years ago. She had to have emergency surgery on her lung due to a rare reaction to valley fever she had contracted .. surgery wasn’t guaranteed but it was her only option for survival.. It happened so quick and I was in shock ..Two days before she was a little sick..the hospital was going to send us home saying… Read more »
DO NOT CANCEL THIS!!! I love this show… At least finish it out.
I am so sa that this show is being canceled, my kids(13) and I watch is every week together and I think it is so well done, my daughter is going to be devastated!
Please don’t cancel this show, it is the only show left that my teenager and I watch together. The characters are as complicated as they are warm. Great show!!!