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Tin Man in September

10 August 2008

If you've not caught up with Tin Man yet then you're probably not a regular visitor to the Sci Fi Channel, where it became the most watched mini series in the channel's history. A surrealistic science fiction re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz that has landed 9 Emmy Award nominations, the series stars Zooey Deschanel (Bridge To Terabithia, Elf), Richard Dreyfuss (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Jaws), Alan Cumming (X-Men 2, the Spy Kids trilogy), Neal McDonough (Flags Of Our Fathers, Timeline), Kathleen Robertson (Hollywoodland), Raoul Trujillo (Apocalypto) and Anna Galvin (Smallville).

A waitress in a sleepy Midwestern town, D.G. is troubled by dark, recurring dreams of people she doesn't know and a land she doesn't recognize. Her nightmares become reality when a group of mysterious men attempt to kidnap her and she is forced to escape by hurling herself into the heart of a fierce tornado raging outside her home. Landing with a bump in the doomed paradise of the O.Z. (Outer Zone), her emerging memories gradually begin to reveal her true destiny when she realises that only she can halt Azkadellia's wicked plan.

Embarking on a journey to Central City to consult the Mystic Man (Richard Dreyfuss), D.G. meets and befriends a brainless 'zipper-head' named Glitch (Alan Cumming), a fainthearted, psychic man-beast named Raw (Raoul Trujillo), and a former Central City cop (or 'tin man' to the locals) called Wyatt Cain (Neal McDonough). Pursued throughout her quest by Azkadellia's flying half-monkey half-bat legions of Mobats and platoons of Longcoat stormtroopers who intend to deliver her into the hands of the sorceress, D.G. experiences a series of fantastical adventures that make it abundantly clear that the O.Z. is definitely no place like home.

Tin Man will be released on 2-disc DVD and blu-ray by Brightspark on 15th September 2008 at the RRP of £19.99 apiece. The DVD will feature an anamorphic widescreen transfer and both will have 5.1 surround soundtracks and a behind-the-scenes documentary Beyond the Yellow Brick Road.