Artful Dodger: Thomas Brodie-Sangster Steals Hearts in Hulu’s Twist on Oliver Twist — Get Release Date

One of literature’s most famous pickpockets is on the prowl again.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Queen’s Gambit, Game of Thrones) stars in Hulu’s The Artful Dodger, which will premiere Wednesday, Nov. 29, the streamer announced on Wednesday. The Australian import is billed as “an irreverent follow-up to Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist exploring the adult double life of the famous prince of thieves,” per the official description.

Brodie-Sangster plays a grown-up Jack Dawkins, aka the Artful Dodger, who “has transferred his fast fingers as a pickpocket to the nimble skilled fingers of a surgeon” in 1850s Australia. But “Dodger’s past returns to haunt him with the arrival of Fagin,” played by Fargo veteran David Thewlis, “luring him back into a world of crime.” Maia Mitchell (Good Trouble) co-stars as Lady Belle Fox, the Governor’s daughter who is “determined to become the colony’s first female surgeon.”

The eight-episode series is “a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist,” with Damon Herriman (Justified), Miranda Tapsell (Wolf Creek) and Tim Minchin (Californication) leading the supporting cast. James McNamara, David Maher and David Taylor serve as co-creators.

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