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In Canada, Oz aired on the Showcase Channel at Friday 10 p.m. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was aired on the federal TV station called FTV. in Israel, where Oz was displayed on the free-to-air commercial Channel 2 in Italy, where it was aired on the free-to-air Italia 1 and in theUnited Kingdom, where Channel 4 aired the show late at night. This was also the case in Brazil, where it was aired by the SBT Network Corporation, late at night in Ireland, where the series aired on free-to-air channel TG4 at 11 p.m. In Australia, Oz was screened uncensored on the free-to-air channel, SBS. Oz took advantage of the freedoms of premium cable to show elements of coarse language, drug use, violence, frontal nudity, homosexuality, and male rape, as well as ethnic and religious conflicts that would have been unacceptable to traditional American broadcast television. Main article: List of Oz (TV series) characters In the front, Augustus Hill.(This photo was also used as the cover for Augustus Hill's book) Simmons, Dean Winters, Scott William Winters, Kirk Acevedo, Erik King, Evan Seinfeld, David Zayas, Lauren Vélez, Otto Sanchez, Robert Clohessy, and Edie Falco.Įric Roberts, Joyce Van Patten, Lord Jamar, Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, LL Cool J, Rick Fox, Dana Ivey, Elaine Stritch, and Peter Criss have made appearances on the show.įrom left to right: Ryan O'Reily, Vernon Schillinger, Miguel Alvarez, Tobias Beecher, Kareem Saïd.

The ensemble cast includes Christopher Meloni, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Harold Perrineau Jr., Eamonn Walker, Rita Moreno,Terry Kinney, Betty Buckley, Kathryn Erbe, Lee Tergesen, B. In contrast to the dangerous criminals, character Tobias Beecher gives a look at a usually law-abiding man who made one fatal drunk-driving mistake. There are the African American Homeboys (Wangler, Redding, Poet, Keane, Supreme Allah) and Muslims (Said, Arif, Hamid Khan), the Wiseguys (Pancamo, Nappa, Schibetta, Zanghi, Urbano), the Aryan Brotherhood (Schillinger, Robson, Mark Mack), the Latinos of El Norte (Alvarez, Morales, Guerra, Hernandez), the Irish (the O'Reily brothers), the gays (Hanlon, Cramer), the bikers (Hoyt, Sands), and many other individuals not completely affiliated with one particular group (Rebadow, Busmalis, Keller, Stanislofsky). There are many groups of inmates throughout the show, and not everyone within each group survives the show's events. Oz chronicles McManus' attempts to keep control over the inmates of Em City. The show's wheelchair-bound narrator, inmate Augustus Hill, explains all of the show's plots, subplots, and conflicts, and provides context, thematic analysis, and a sense of humor. The show offers a no holds barred account of prison life. Others, corrections officers and inmates alike, simply want to survive, some long enough to makeparole and others just to see the next day.

Some fight for power – either over the drug trade or over other inmate factions and individuals. Under McManus and Warden Leo Glynn, all inmates in "Em City" struggle to fulfill their own needs.

Emerald City is an extremely controlled environment, with a carefully managed balance of members from each racial and social group, intended to ease tensions among these various factions. In this experimental unit of the prison, unit manager Tim McManus emphasizes rehabilitation and learning responsibility during incarceration, rather than carrying out purely punitive measures. The majority of Oz‍ '​s story arcs are set in "Emerald City", named for a setting from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). In 2008, the show was placed at #73 on Entertainment Weekly‍‍ '​‍s "New TV Classics" list. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Moreover, most of the series' story arcs are set in "Emerald City", a setting from the fictional Land of Oz in L. The nickname "Oz" is also a reference to the classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939), which popularized the phrase "There's no place like home." In contrast, the series uses the tagline: "It's no place like home". The character Tim McManus refers to Attica as his hometown and the riot as his original impetus for his wanting to set up Emerald City. The prison is most likely named after New York Commissioner of Correctional ServicesRussell George Oswald, who was the head of New York's penal system at the time of Attica Prison riot. "Oz" is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional level 4 maximum-security state prison, apparently in New York (given the New York state flag and motto seen in the background when public officials are shown speaking publicly, and references to "upstate", a term commonly used in New York).