The new Australian series The Artful Dodger is a surgical reworking of Oliver Twist, where the savagery is played for laughs.
When pop star D'banj signed up to help get Goodluck Jonathan elected president, fans turned on him. But a hit song turned things around.
John Sullivan, who created Del Boy and Rodney, has been called a modern Dickens – now both their most famous works have been made into musicals.