'The Artful Dodger' Heads to Hulu for the Holidays

Disney+ has been commissioning overseas series for the U.K. and other countries since it launched the streaming service internationally. Though the bulk of its productions seem to be based out of London, there are some Australian original series floating about. Like the U.K. series, these won't come to the American version of Disney+, which is far stricter about what gets to be part of its "brand" and what isn't. That brand definitely doesn't seem to include Charles Dickens; FX's Great Expectations, for example, ended up on Hulu, and now the latest Dickens-esque Oliver Twist sequel series, The Artful Dodger, will follow suit, arriving on Hulu for the holiday season.

Disney+ first announced the series was greenlit to go into production with the full cast in place in December 2022. The series stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster, who has grown into an adult since PBS viewers last saw him on The Durrells in Corfu. His main co-star is David Thewlis, most recently seen starring opposite Olivia Colman in Landscapers, the two play official Dickens characters from the novel, with Brodie-Sangster as Jack Dawson, aka the titular Artful Dodger, and Thewlis as Fagin, the main surviving adult from the original novel.

The two will be joined by Australian actor Maia Mitchell, who has a long track record of doing Disney movies as a teen and starred in The Fosters, which aired on Disney-owned cable network Freeform. She plays a brand new character invented for the series and Dawson's love interest.