Tin Man (TV miniseries)
Tin Man - the fight for the Emerald of the light ( Original Title: Tin Man ), also known under the title Tin Man - The fantastic journey to Oz, is an American miniseries by Craig Van Sickle and Steven Long Mitchell, who in 2007 from RHI Entertainment was produced in cooperation with the U.S. cable channel sci Fi Channel. It provides a remake and sequel of the classic story The Wizard of Oz with science fiction and fantasy elements; they do is about the adventures of a small-town waitress named DG, in a magical realm called outer zone (English Outer zone or OZ) drawn is, which is ruled by the tyrannical witch Azkadellia. Together with her companions Glitch, Raw, and Cain DG travels through the country, covering their lost memories, get to know their true parents and crosses Azkadellias plan to dive OZ in eternal darkness. The first broadcast in the U.S. took place in three parts from the 2nd to the 4th December 2007, the SciFi Channel.
The miniseries was nominated for nine Emmys, a Critics' Choice Movie Award and seven Leo Awards, of which they could finally win an Emmy Award and six Leos. It received mixed reviews, with some dramatic art, music and the visual effects and praised other they were exaggerated dark and dreary.
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Although the young small-town waitress DG has a good relationship with her parents, she feels in Kansas not at home and is haunted for some time yet by strange nightmares and visions in which she is warned by a mysterious woman that a storm rears. Your visions come true, as the sorceress Azkadellia, tyrannical ruler of the outer zone, their soldiers, so-called long coats, sends through a magic tornado to kill DG. But DG escapes and arrives with her parents by the storm in the outer zone, a very einödigen place. Separated due to the storm of them, DG sets off to search for their parents. She receives a magical symbol on her palm and learns after she found her parents, that these are just android and that her real mother is the mysterious woman in her nightmares. She also learns of her true destiny and sets out to rescue the outer zone.
On her way she befriends the residents Glitch, a scarecrow, which half of his brain was taken from Azkadellia, Wyatt Cain, a former police officer, and Raw, a lion- like seer to. When visiting the mysterious man in Central City and on the way to the Northern Islands learns the group that glitch was formerly a consultant to the Queen of the outer zone and the DG and Azkadellia sisters and the daughters of the queen are. Thereupon DG reminded that Azkadellia killed them with dark magic, when they were still children. But her mother had revived with their magic and gave her secret instructions on how they can find the Emerald of the light, looking for the Azkadellia.
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Tin Man was first broadcast in the United States at the local cable station SciFi Channel from 2 to 4 December 2007 as a three-piece four and a half hour mini- series. The first broadcast in the UK was carried out at the local sci-fi spin-off from the 11th to the 25th May 2008, each week a new episode was shown. In New Zealand, the miniseries was shown from 9 to 16 and in Australia on 26 and 27 December 2008. A DVD release with the region code 1 on 11 March 2008. DVD with region code 2 was released on September 8, 2008.
The German Original Air Date was first seen on April 17, 2009 as the three -hour TV movie with the German SciFi channel. The first broadcast on free television took place in Austria from the transmitter ATV on 19 July 2009 under the title Tin Man - The fantastic journey to Oz Just under a year later, in the summer of 2010, the German free-TV premiere at the RTL. The German -language DVD was released on April 2, 2010.
Reception
According to the Nielsen Media Research reports the first episode watched about 6.3 million people, making it the biggest live broadcast in the station's history and the most-watched miniseries of 2007. The episodes two and three were seen by about 4.4 and 5.1 million Americans.
The series was also popular with film critics award, so Tin Man was nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and nine Leo Awards. They also received at the Emmy Awards 2008, nine Emmy nominations, including best miniseries and some of the creative categories such as special effects, costume, editing and sound editing. Although she has been nominated several times, they finally won only the best make-up in a miniseries or TV movie. Furthermore, the mini-series took place at the Leo Awards consideration, where she won six of the seven awards, where she has been nominated. At the ceremony for the Young Artist Awards 2008 Jake D. Smith has been nominated for an award as Best Supporting Actor in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special.
The magazine Variety described the miniseries as " halbsurreale adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, stitched together from pieces of Matrix, Blade Runner and Snow White to create a brooding fantasy that - understandably, given the variety of influences - proves to be a little confusion " and whose " appearance and action sequences not fully delivers the goods to the target group of fans and their imaginary friends ." USA Today gave the series two and a half out of four stars, compared her " dark, violent, relentlessly unpleasant revisionist setting" with the Battlestar Galactica and came to the conclusion as "ambitious and intriguing Anyway, Tin Man is simply too long, too bleak and to endeavor to impose a Lord of the Rings universe similar rescue task a simpler, gentler story. "