I won’t watch the medical drama, after years of ER and Chicago Hope I’m burnt out on them. I probably won’t watch the CW show, either. Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever really been a fan of anything on the CW except Hart of Dixie and even that I quit watching after the first season. I think they put it against something else I watch and it was sacrified and I just forgot about it. I tend to forget CW actually exists. On my cable system is up high in the listing and away from the other networks.
As for the influx of Oz stuff, last year it was Beauty and the Beast and Wonderland, which most of the pilots never got picked up. This coming year looks like Oz is going to be in the spotlight. I wonder if Networks might fare better bringing back the concept of miniseries. I know cable shows do them, but rarely do Networks have them. I grew up as a child of the 80s/90s and the big three always had miniseries. They did musicals, fairytales, novels. I think some of these fairytale projects would be better off as a miniseries.
The Oz series sounds a bit like Wicked, in that it’s from the opposite point-of-view and looks at Dorothy in a different light. There are a lot of Wicked fans, both book and musical, so it will be interesting if it gets picked up how they were view this show. But it’s unlikely that I will watch it.
HE, the show is called Once Upon a Time, not the Snow and Charming Show. It’s an ensemble show, which means your favorite isn’t always going to be the focus. Characters come and go, stories change. Any of the hour-long running shows that have stayed current and high in the ratings for a long period of time have been ensembles (ER, Grey’s Anatomy) or follow a formula (Law & Order).
Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.