The BBC's Yearly Christmas Spookticle
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Despite being an oddity for 1970s British television, A Ghost Story for Christmas is now considered the ideal, classic form of British horror filmmaking. The films (around 30-50 minutes long) were produced by the BBC and broadcast around Christmas for eight years straight. With one exception, they were all directed
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One of the U.K.’s long-standing traditions is telling ghost stories at Christmas. The most famous, of course, is A Christmas Carol, in which a rich man is terrorized into paying his staff a living wage. However, Dickens was merely following a tradition older than he was; Victorian writers
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Autumn has officially arrived, and the decorative gourds are starting to sprout on people's doorsteps. The year's final months are a high-key time for most PBS stations; this is the point in the year when Ken Burns documentaries arrive, Masterpiece debuts fall favorites, and the period
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A Ghost Story for Christmas initially debuted in 1971 on the BBC, a Christmas Eve anthology series of scary stories to tell in the dark while awaiting Santa. The original iteration ran for seven years, concluding in 1978. The first five adaptations were based on M.R. James' famous
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A tradition that began with the original run from 1971-78, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series has now steadily released annual entries since 2018 (minus the first year of the pandemic). Unlike the classically structured short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, this adaptation of his Lot No.
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When the BBC announced that screenwriter Mark Gatiss would return to the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for the first time since he and Steven Moffat walked away from their popular Sherlock adaptation, it seemed like it was only a matter of time before one of the American streamers
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It’s been about seven years since Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat hung up their pens on the modernized Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. The series, which had about as many dedicated, passionate fans as it did detractors by the time it was over, ended in 2017. Though