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Daily Demand (Last 7 days)
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100%
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Oliver Twist’s
home country is:
United Kingdom
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Below AvgAverage Demand for Oliver Twist is 0.0 times the demand for the average show in United States in the Last 7 days.
Below Avg
24.5%
Average
64.1%
Good
8.6%
Outstanding
2.7%
Exceptional
0.2%
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Oliver Twist ranks at the 0.00th percentile in the genre. This means Oliver Twist has higher demand than all other titles in United States
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About this title
Storyline
Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s. Little Oliver Twist (Sam Smith), already abused, starved, and overworked, is apprenticed to an undertaker and runs away to London after being bullied by an older apprentice. There, he is taken in by Fagin (Robert Lindsay), a fence and thief-trainer, and his gang of pickpockets. He is befriended by Nancy (Emily Woof), a good-hearted prostitute, and meets her lover, the brutal housebreaker Bill Sikes (Andy Serkis). But attempts by the gang to discredit him result in his being taken in by Mr. Brownlow (Michael Kitchen), a wealthy and charitable man, who proves to be the catalyst for Oliver's discovery of his background and identity. Here Alan Bleasdale's dramatization differs from Dickens' novel, in that Oliver does not fall into Brownlow's hands by coincidence, and we already know his backstory: he's the child of a young woman named Agnes Fleming (Sophia Myles) and her married lover, Edwin Leeford (Tim Dutton), who dies while on a trip to Rome to claim an inheritance he hopes will permit him to settle enough money on his estranged wife and their adolescent son, then retire somewhere with Agnes and her child. Edwin was married as a very young man to an ambitious older woman to suit both of their families; they separated acrimoniously and she took their son, Edward, who was seriously injured in an accident as a child and left with several physical and emotional disorders as a result. Mrs. Leeford and Edward despise each other, but she bullies him into helping her with her schemes and eventually he takes them up himself when he needs more money than his father's will permits him. Assuming the name Monks (Marc Warren) and descending into the London underworld, he contracts Fagin to find and educate Oliver, who can only inherit the Leeford fortune if he is of good character and behavior. As in the novel, Nancy's affection for Oliver is crucial for him, but costly for her.
Country: United Kingdom
Type: scripted
Status: Ended
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1999
Also Known As: オリバー・ツイスト, Оливър ТуистOliver Twist, 孤雛淚, Оливер Твист | See more »
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Company Credits
Production Co: Diplomat Films, HTV, United Productions, WGBH
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
1999 | 4 Episodes
Awards
Awards & NominationsSee full list »
BAFTA Television Craft Award 2000
Nominee
BAFTA Television Craft Award
Costume Design
BAFTA TV Award 2000
Nominee
BAFTA TV Award
Best Costume Design
Nominee
BAFTA TV Award
Best Make Up/Hair
Nominee
BAFTA TV Award
Best Original Television Music