The Artful Dodger Renewed For Season 2 At Disney+/Hulu
The Artful Dodger has been renewed for Season 2, it was announced on Wednesday morning — almost exactly one year after Season 1 of the Aussie crime dramedy dropped on Disney+ and Hulu.
Described as "an irreverent follow-up to Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist,'" the series follows Jack Dawkins aka The Artful Dodger (played by The Maze Runner's Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and his adult double life in the far-flung penal colony of Port Victory, Australia.
The cast also includes Maia Mitchell (Good Trouble) as Lady Belle, a brilliant and captivating woman who captures Dodger's heart and is determined to make history as the first female surgeon, and David Thewlis (Fargo) as the rascally Fagin.
In Season 1, Dodger was torn between the promise of an impossible love in high society and the instinctive temptation of the criminal underworld he secretly craves, when his past returned to haunt him with the arrival of Fagin and the opportunity for one last heist.
The eight-episode Season 2, to be filmed in 2025 at the historic Callan Park in Sydney, picks 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."'
"We're thrilled to give our global audiences what they've been asking for with a second season of The Artful Dodger," SVP of The Walt Disney Company Australia and New Zealand Kylie Watson-Wheeler said in a statement. "The return of our Australian-born Disney+ Original scripted drama, complete with all-star cast and a brilliant crew, is a testament to the series' high caliber of production and its local and international audience success. We're delighted this high-stakes romantic drama of heists, comedy and beautifully complicated life and love will thrill and entertain again."
Series co-creator James McNamara will lead the writing team with Kate Mulvany, Dan Knight and Miranda Tapsell. Ben Young and Gracie Otto serve as directors, with Jeffrey Walker consulting.
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