'Tin Man' Premieres Tonite: A New Journey into the Land of Oz

"Tin Man," a new Sci-Fi Channel Original Miniseries, premieres tonight at 9PM (EST)/8PM (CST).

Starring Zooey Deschanel, Richard Dreyfuss, Alan Cumming and Neal McDonough, "L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is boldly reimagined for the new millennium with a darkly menacing world populated by wicked sisters, cowardly psychics, brain-drained inventors and a menagerie of other fantastical inhabitants," explain press notes.

As described on the series' website: Unlike anything the author imagined a century ago, the Ozian realm portrayed in "Tin Man" is much farther over the rainbow than ever before. A fierce tornado rips DG (Zooey Deschanel) from her clock-watching life as a waitress in the Midwest and deposits her with a shocking bump on "the other side." The Outer Zone (O.Z.) is a fantastical land rife with wonder nut oppressed by dark magic. The O.Z. has been plunged into a decade-long night of fear by the sorceress Azkadellia (Kathleen Robertson).

Aided by her Longcoat storm troopers and winged Mobat (monkey-bat) spies, she has seized power from her own mother, the rightful queen known as Lavendar Eyes (Anna Galvin), and compromised such once-potent Ozian leaders as the Mystic Man (Richard Dreyfuss). Even the tiny but fierce Resistance Fighters of the Eastern Guild are losing hope tht the sorceress can be stopped. Heeding the whisper of her own emerging memories, DG realizes that only she can halt Azkadellia's twisted master plan. A visit with the Blunderful Mystic of Oz in Central City, imprisonment in the sorceress's tower and a daring escape on the road south to the Realm of the Unwanted all deliver startling revelation about a bewitched land that's nothing like home.

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