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?
The show brings awareness to Cystic Fibrosis. It also hurts to watch a child who supposedly needs new lungs never cough, smoke pot, never have IV, on a skateboard, and generally not showing any signs of the real disease. It is a genetic disease passed on by both parents. Kids are in the hospital struggling to breathe. My own son died during his lung transplant surgery from bleeding. If you are going to keep the show, then make it more realistic. People are getting the idea that CF is something that you can breeze through. Just saying.
Just wanted to add this. I have seen kids in the hospital for weeks at a time. They do have a special bond that definitely needs to be explored. I had really high hopes for this show. I only wish that the writers had researched more.
I LOVE RED BAND SOCIETY & THINK IT SHOULD HAVE ANOTHER SEASON
BRING ON MORE SEASONS!!!!!!!!
We love this show! Keep them coming!
This is all I think about when it’s Wednesday red band society is a very good show .
Red ban society is what I look forward to watching . I love this tv show because it’s very entertaining .please keep red band society on air. This is a really good show an I would be really sad if it is cancelled .
Please keep red band society I live this tv shows it’s all I think about when the new week starts
Keep it! It is one of the best shows of the fall, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry and overall it makes you feel good.
Keep it! KEEP it! KEEP IT!
Dump all other medical shows and KEEP THIS ONE!
It’s new, fresh, and gitchy.
It is one of the best shows out, keep it on, great messages for pre-teens and teens!
Please keep this show on the air. I love it. And there are messages people need to hear on this how.
LOVE IT! my kids my husband and I are IN LOVE WITH THIS SHOW!
I love Red Band Society I watch it every time it is on. Please keep it on.
Thank you
Diane
Keep it! It’s the only show on FOX worth watching!
I look forward to Wednesdays because of this show!! Please don’t cancel. For some reason or another it hasnt been on in the last couple of weeks, though. Has it already been canceled?