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NBC is giving "Emerald City" a second chance. The network has given the "Wizard of Oz"-inspired drama a 10-episode straight-to-series order after scrapping the project even before broadcasting a single episode last year.

The project was initially ordered to series in January 2014 with Josh Friedman and Matthew Arnold as the writers. It's conceived as "a modern and dark re-imagining of the classic tale of Oz in the vein of 'Game of Thrones'."

NBC decided not to move forward with it before the production started, citing "creative differences" with the show's producers as the reason of the cancellation. Universal Television considered shopping the project to other networks, but then decided to rework on the concept with David Schulner as new writer and showrunner.

The logline for the new take reads, "In the blink of a tornado's eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale and her K9 police dog are transported to another world, one far removed from our own - a mystical land of competing kingdoms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. This is the fabled Land of Oz in a way you've never seen before, where wicked witches don't stay dead for long and a young girl becomes a headstrong warrior who holds the fate of kingdoms in her hands."