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CBS is taking on “The Wizard Of Oz,” and it appears there will be scalpels and stethoscopes involved.
According to Deadline, “Sherlock” producers Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman and working with CBS on a New York City-based medical soap titled “Dorothy.”
Not much else is known about the project just yet, except that characters like Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Lion and the rest of the “Wizard Of Oz” gang will be used as inspiration.
The TV world has been on a “Wizard Of Oz” roll: Last month, Syfy reported that it was working on a miniseries titled “Warriors Of Oz,” which will center on a warrior who is “transported to a post-apocalyptic future Oz where he must team up with three other warriors, Heartless, Brainless, and Coward, in order to defeat the evil Wizard who has enslaved the land,” as reported by Deadline.
CBS did not immediately return The Huffington Post’s request for comment on “Dorothy.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/cbs-wizard-of-oz_n_3731649.html?utm_hp_ref=tv
[adrotate group="5"]The story of the Wizard of Oz as a medical drama? I’m not sure how I feel about this, especially since there are endless medical dramas on TV already. For every medical drama, there’s probably a cop/crime drama.
Curious that SyFy would adapt another Wizard of Oz mini series. Tin Man wasn’t that long ago. 2007.
Yea, I kind of have to agree with you ObisGirl, too much medical and crime shows don’t know if it would fly.
No desire to watch this at all.
The SyFy one will be excellent because it’s SyFy so it will either be genuinally excellent or so terrible that it automatically becomes excellent. Those are the only possible options for anything on SyFy.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"It just shocks me SyFy would do another Wizard of Oz story. It feels too recent. 2007 was only six years ago.
I mean, I can kind of see how Oz could work as a medical drama with Oz being some great surgeon that he makes miracles and even has the nickname Oz but another medical drama, is too much.
Tin Man could be applying for a heart transplant.
No way Scare Crow could make it as a doctor or anything else, because he would be too scared of anything.
Wicked Witch of the East is the hospital’s administrator with a bad attitude.
Dorothy is…I don’t know, an assistant to Oz?
Winged monkeys are candy stripers…
I just can’t even wrap my mind around this.
The SyFy one will be excellent because it’s SyFy so it will either be genuinally excellent or so terrible that it automatically becomes excellent. Those are the only possible options for anything on SyFy.
Hehe. I don’t watch SyFy often at all, but this is about the truest statement I’ve ever heard about the network.
Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.
Wasn’t there a prison drama OZ? I think the term has come to symbolize any place where you feel out of you’re comfort zone. So it might be a straight medical drama about a resident, Dorothy, and they make jokes about the OZ but it is more symbolic than actual, but along the lines of what Obisgirl said. Scarecrow could be a psychiatrist, Tin Man the heart surgeon, and the lion an ER doc. But they would all be normal people and no magic.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
I hear there is another Oz drama making the rounds from Heroes alums Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster, with Heroes creator Tim Kring supervising.
I am semi-interested in how Kring will re-interpret Oz. I still miss Heroes.
I would check it out. Heroes, the first season, was great and then it very rapidly went down hill after season 2. But I have faith that Kring could pull something else off.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"It could be like Scrubs but with a wizard of Oz twist and more drama. So Dorothy would start the series as a newbie doctor and then progress to well respected doctor within the hospital.
The cowardly lion could be a once brilliant doctor whose lost his nerve.
The wicked witch of the west could be a hospital administrator who care more about the doctor’s hitting targets than patient care.
Oz could be the hospital’s leading surgeon, saving lives, and generally being admired by all those who work for him. He probably won’t be seen a lot so the hospital gossip will probably big him up so much that when Dorothy meets him in person, she’s a little underwhelmed.
The Tin Man will probably be a doctor who is seen as “heartless” by the rest of the hospital staff until the moment where Dorothy sees that he does have a heart after all.
The scarecrow could be a psychiatric patient that Dorothy meets or perhaps a doctor with mental health issues.
Alternatively, Dorothy could be a patient, and the other characters are doctors she meets during her stay at the hospital or they are patients as well or Dorothy is a mental patient and the other characters are people she meets during her stay (Doctors and patients) who she sees as characters from the wizard of Oz.
All magic comes with a price!
Keeper of Felix
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