OZ: The Show That Changed TV Forever

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On the 12th of July, 1997, the landscape of television – and the way we consume and relate to entertainment – changed forever. It was the premiere of a new drama called OZ, which chronicled the story of the experimental unit Emerald City in a fictional New York prison called Oswald State Penitentiary. The show was about the correctional officers that policed it, the government officials that tried to hinder it, the doctors and priests that tried to heal it and the prisoners who tried to destroy it. It was created by Tom Fontana while he was still writing his other show, Homicide: Life on the Street, and was the first ever hour-long cable drama.

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