Hulu announced today that its hit Original series, The Artful Dodger, will be back for a second season. (Yay!)
Terrific news, this! The Artful Dodger, an irreverent follow-up to Charles Dickens’s classic tale, Oliver Twist, deserves a second season and it’s getting it!
Reprising their roles for the sophomore season of this viewer-favorite Australian drama are series leads Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Queen’s Gambit, Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones) as Jack Dawkins, aka The Artful Dodger, David Thewlis (Landscapers, Fargo, “Harry Potter” films) as Fagin, and Maia Mitchell (Good Trouble, The Fosters, Never Goin’ Back) as Lady Belle Fox.
They will be joined by a full ensemble of Australian and New Zealand cast and several new faces in exciting cameos. Details will be revealed in due course.
Series co-creator James McNamara (The Outrageous True Story of Milky Moor) is leading the writing team, which includes Kate Mulvany (Upright), Dan Knight (Irreverent), and Miranda Tapsell (Top End Wedding). Ben Young (The Twelve) and Gracie Otto (Heartbreak High) serve as directors, with Jeffrey Walker (The Portable Door) consulting.
To be filmed in 2025 at the historic Callan Park in Sydney, the eight-episode Season 2 will pick up where the heart’s desires of Dodger, Fagin, and Lady Belle left off, promising more cunning thievery, snappy humor, life-and-death surgeries, and romance with a twist.
Season 1 of The Artful Dodger explores the adult double life of Jack Dawkins in the far-flung penal colony of Port Victory, Australia. A tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist, it follows Jack/the Artful Dodger, whose fast, pickpocketing fingers have turned into the skilled hands of a surgeon. His heart, though, is captured by Lady Belle, the brilliant and captivating Governor’s daughter, who is determined to make history as the first female surgeon. Dodger is torn between the promise of an impossible love in high society and the instinctive temptation of the criminal underworld he secretly craves. Then his past returns to haunt him with the arrival of Fagin, luring him back for one last heist.
Check out the first season if you haven’t already!
The Artful Dodger: Season 2 is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television’s Curio Pictures. Curio Pictures’ Jo Porter and Rachel Gardner are Executive Producer/Producers, with James McNamara as Executive Producer and Cameron Welsh (Foundation, Krypton) as Series Producer. The series was co-created by James McNamara, David Maher, and David Taylor. The New South Wales State Government is supporting Season 2 through Screen NSW’s Made In NSW fund and the PDV Rebate.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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