5 YA Books We Saw Brought to Life on the Small Screen This Year

On Jan. 6, NBC's Emerald City took a stab at adapting L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The show has the usual beats — a young woman named Dorothy is swept away from Kansas to the Land of Oz by a cyclone, where she meets an array of eccentric characters — but this version goes to a decidedly darker place. There's an eerie prophecy about a disastrous event, evil witches, an amnesiac soldier, dark magic, and more. Sadly the show wasn't picked up for season two.