Wizard of Oz TV show Announced! (Or rather re-announced?)

By Joelgleo
I've heard of shows that have been canceled, and then uncanceled due to either loud enough fan support or last minute deals going through. I've also heard of shows that got canceled before a single episode was aired. (This happened to the show Hieroglyph, just this past year.) But I'm not sure if both of these things have ever happened to the same show before now.

A while back, the land of Oz seemed to be everywhere. Disney had released a fairly successful prequel movie about the Wizard first arriving, Oz characters were showing up on Once Upon a Time, and there were no less than three (count 'em three) Wizard of Oz themed TV shows in development at the same time. One of those shows was Emerald City on NBC. Emerald City was described as a Game of Thrones style interpretation of the land of Oz (i.e. NBC would like some of that GoT success) that would cover events not only from the original Wizard of Oz book, but its thirteen sequels as well.

Last January, NBC ordered a 10 episode season of the show, but then ended up canceling in August. There was talk of shopping the show around to other networks to find it a new home, but it looks like the new home it found was its old home. NBC has once again ordered 10 episodes of Emerald City with a new executive producer.

Who knows if the show will actually make it to air this time around. I guess we'll find out this fall. But until then, check out a teaser poster for the show.


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