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?
Glad to hear. This show featured GAYS, just another attempt at pushing the GAY perversion as “normal.” Happy to hear it is cancelled.
Red Band Society shouldn’t be cancelled. It was hard to have to wait for it to come back on when the World Series was taking it’s place.
Love the show. Don’t cancel it. Finally something good on tv.
I love this show. it could be sooo great once everything gets rolling. sooo much potential
DO NOT CANCEL MY SHOW! it has sooo much potential
I love this show, and it does have much potential! Please don’t cancel it. Give it more time. The characters are wonderful and the issues they have to deal with are heartwarming. PLEASE keep it on!
Man, this show is amazing. It brings light on real life problems in today’s society and shows us how these diseases, although not entirely accurate, can bring together a diverse group of people together. I really enjoy this great show and believe that it shouldn’t be cancelled.
Our whole family loves this show.. I am 62 and love the kids, the interaction between the adults and the kids and especially Charley.. He is the cutest comatose bot ever.. Do not cancel this show, PLEASE!!!
Don’t cancel. One of my few favorites this season…..Haven’t missed an episode….And I’m 68…..
You can’t cancel this show this has taught me that anything can happen when you have good friends. Also this is the only show that gives true meaning about cancer.
Great show don’t cancel
I do not think Red Band Society should be cancelled. This show has brought a new world to me and it has taught me to be thankful for what I have. I have a heart condition just like Kara in the TV show and it really inspires me the way she lives even with the heart problem. I believe this show inspires many others including me and I cannot imagine this amazing show being cancelled.
I love this show they can’t cancel it…it has so much potential!!!
This is a great show and also very different. I am 59 years old and still this is one of my favorites. Please folks let us keep this show on the air.
dont cancel it. it is such a great show. all the characters are real. it deals with issues. no vampires or reality crap. it is a nice change
Good point Shari!