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?
I really was hoping to see more of this this show really helped me thru a lot of stuff in my messed up life and I really need to see it
I honestly really love this show it’s helped me thru to much and so much to come I really hope for new episodes
I loved watching it. Wish it could of stayed on.
i have to say this show is everything and absolutely wish for it to air a season 2 . i know that FOX and ABC tried to do everything to keep it going but the idea of making it a summer show would have been better than cancelling it. it had so much emotion and it was “raw” exposing teens going through so much just imagine how many of these teens in real life can relate. sure you don’t get a lot of enlarged hearts or ‘CF’ but kids can relate to anorexia and frankly cancer is everywhere …it runs… Read more »
I still want that show to return
My son who is 11 loved that show. He has had 3 open heart surgery since he was born. Red band society every week. Because all the patients had different problems. I wish and he wishes they would bring it back
It was one of my favourite shows, i am really really upset that it was cancelled i couldn’t wait for the next season to come out because all i want to do is watch it. It wasn’t really advertised well so no one had really heard about it. It taught me so much and i just want to watch it again. Anyone feeling me
I have finish watching all the episodes, i think just this June 2016, been searching for the next episodes for how many weeks already but was so saddened and it breaks my heart to have learned that the show got cancelled. I actually and honestly think that THE SHOW DESERVES TO BE BACK ON AIR, have more episodes and last a long time not just because of how much i and the people who commented here have loved it but because this show can actually INSPIRE and ENCOURAGE more souls and make more people round the globe better understand those… Read more »
Red Band Society is one of the very few really good show, if Fox cancels it, give it to cable channels.
Cancel The New Girl and all the other mindless crap that FOX plays that no one cares about and bring back Red Band Society!
My name is Jackie I’m 13 years old and I first started watching this when I was in the hospital and it was hard I was close to ddeath at one point and alot has happened since them I has to grow up fast and just like that I wasntnt a kid anymore I coudnt cry I has to be strong for my mom who was already stressed enough being a single mom with four kids and no job so I knew I coudnt or my mom would break so I stayed strong and through all that I stayed strong… Read more »
My husband and I loved Redband Society! It was one of the best series on TV, with a positive message and real characters. Please bring it back.
In my opinion this was one of Fox’s best shows… Generally most of them just SUCK!
I loved this show! It had a good story line and was kid friendly! I think there should be another season.
Red Band Society was a really good show. Me and my daughter loved it! I was googling the show to find out when it was coming back on and foundidn’t out it was cancelled. It’s very disappointing and I hope someone else picks it back up. There were real life issues on this show and the last season left us with too many unanswered questions about the characters of the show. I’m really disappointed.