Hulu’s official trailer for The Artful Dodger shows Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Queen’s Gambit, the Maze Runner films) as the titular character trying to pass as a doctor and a gentleman before being reluctantly drawn back into a life of crime. The eight-episode Australian original series will premiere on Hulu on November 29, 2023, with all episodes dropping at once.
Brodie-Sangster stars as Jack Dawkins (also known as The Artful Dodger), David Thewlis is Fagin, and Maia Mitchell is Lady Belle Fox. Damon Herriman, Tim Minchin, Miranda Tapsell, Susie Porter, Damien Garvey, Kym Gyngell, Vivienne Awosoga, and Albert Latailakepa also star.
James McNamara, David Maher, and David Taylor created the series based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, with McNamara writing and executive producing along with Andrew Knight. Executive producer Jeffrey Walker directs and Ross Allsop serves as a producer. Additional executive producers include Curio Pictures’ Jo Porter and Beach Road Pictures’ David Maher and David Taylor.
“The Artful Dodger explores the adult double life of Charles Dickens’ famous prince of thieves, Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger, whose fast pickpocketing fingers have turned into the skilled hands of a surgeon,” reads Hulu’s synopsis. “Set in 1850s Australia, in the lively colony of Port Victory, Dodger’s past returns to haunt him with the arrival of Fagin, luring him back into a world of crime. A greater threat – to Dodger’s heart – is Lady Belle, the Governor’s daughter, determined to become the colony’s first female surgeon.
From heists to life-and-death surgeries to the harsh realities of the criminal world mingling with the middle ground and gentry, this is a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist.”
