Additionally, Thomas directed all the episodes. And we can also bore our kids by constantly talking about Dodger storylines, to the point where our daughter wrote Fuck Dodger on the whiteboard.”Īs well as writing the show, Thomas and Montgomery both have small parts. “But obviously we know each other so well that it works. “We’ve written on our own a lot, and we’ve also written with other people where they maybe don’t pull their weight, or you can’t be honest,” says Montgomery. Lucy Montgomery as Minnie Bilge … ‘You can watch it with your gran.’ Photograph: NBCUniversal International Studios/BBC “But we work so well together, we basically said let’s do all of them together.” “Lucy was only going to write a couple of episodes at the start,” says Thomas. Their enthusiasm for Dodger is contagious. They gabber and froth as if they are running out of time, hopping in to finish each other’s sentences and at times talk over each other. You only have to spend a couple of seconds with Thomas and Montgomery to see where Dodger gets its breakneck pace. It being on BBC One means, hopefully, we’ll have adults of all ages enjoying it as well.” “We’ve tried to make it in the way you can watch The Simpsons, so there’ll be things that adults will get that kids won’t get. “And you can watch it with your gran,” Montgomery chimes in. “But it’s been nice because BBC One has a tradition of Sunday night family things.” “iPlayer is where it’s all at really, in terms of the future,” adds Thomas, from the comfort of their home in London. “That was a lovely surprise,” says Montgomery via Zoom, from a location she describes as a hut in Norfolk. Hence its promotion from CBBC to BBC One. The whole thing clatters along breathlessly like an episodic version of The Goonies. The show is loaded with acting talent – Christopher Eccleston plays Fagin, David Threlfall is the chief of police, with Julian Barratt, Alexei Sayle and Frances Barber popping up along the way. But it’s more than an origin story for the Artful Dodger. Created by Rhys Thomas (best known for creating the BBC mockumentary Brian Pern) and written with his wife, the actor Lucy Montgomery, Dodger is technically a prequel to Oliver. The only way that might happen now is if someone makes a children’s show so fantastic that it gets passed all the way up to the main channels.ĭodger is that show. Unless you have children or grandchildren, you are unlikely to accidentally discover a brilliant new kids’ show like, say, hungover students discovered Teletubbies in the 1990s. Of all the upsides that come with the BBC having two dedicated children’s channels, there is one small loss.
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