The Red Band Society Begins Airing September 17, Critics Say Show is This Fall's Underdog Season
The Red Band Society Fox TV show will officially premiere on September 17. Last month however, the network not only released a The Red Band Society trailer but also the full pilot episode which can still be watched on the Internet at Channel Guide, Film-Book, Shadow and Act, and other sites. The fan site The Red Band Society wiki has 211 still photos of choice scenes from the pilot episode.
The Red Band Society 2014-2015 Fox TV series was developed by Margaret Nagle based on the award-winning Spanish series Polseres Vermelles. It follows a narration by a 12-year comatose patient who observes his fellow patients in the pediatric ward of Ocean Park Hospital in Los Angeles as they deal with their own medical issues like cancer and heart failure while still trying to be normal teenagers. They are bonded by their red hospital ID bands.
The Red Band Society IMDB lists a cast which includes Octavia Spencer as Nurse Jackson, Dave Annable as Dr. Jack McAndrew, Griffin Gluck as Charlie, Nolan Sotillo as Jordi Palacios, Charlie Rowe as Leo Roth, Brian Bradley as Dash Hosney, Zoe Levin as Kara Souders, Ciara Bravo as Emma Chota, and Rebecca Rittenhouse as Nurse Brittany Dobler. The American-audience adaptation of The Red Band Society is a Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television production.
The Red Band Society, according to a review written by Merrill Barr at Forbes, "is very much this fall's underdog series. It doesn't have the heavy hitting name recognition of Gotham or the substantial marketing power of Scorpion. But what it does have is a willingness to be a good series that doesn't care if you like it or not. Red Band Society is a show that wants to please its character more than it wants to please its viewership, and by pleasing its characters first, the audience, by consequence, becomes intrigued because they just become flies on the wall of a highly interesting and rarely seen side of hospital hierarchy."
