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The Muppet Christmas Carol turns 30: How the film became a cult classic

Among the many screen adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol is unique.

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The Muppet Christmas Carol turns 30 - how film became a cult classic

Wherever you find love, it feels like Christmas

Wales Online

The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas

Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of lights?

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The Muppet Christmas Carol turns 30: how the film became a cult classic

“Cult” is often indiscriminately applied to film and television. In Cult Movies (1981), film critic Danny Peary argued that it should be reserved for “special films which for one reason or another have been taken to heart by segments of the movie audience, cherished, protected, and most of all, enthusiastically…

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Plants, fake sprouts and none of the trimmings: What does the future hold for the traditional Christmas dinner?

The climate crisis is already affecting our potato and Brussels sprout harvests, while animal feed for our turkeys has become incredibly expensive, writes Hannah Twiggs. We will have to change our Christmas dinners as a result. But would that be such a bad thing?

The Independent UK

A Christmas Carol review – glorious musical version of Dickens’s festive treat

Charles Dickens takes to the stage and Ebenezer Scrooge is a woman with a moving backstory in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s adaptation

The Guardian - UK

How Muppets' Christmas Carol became festive classic as it returns to cinemas 30 years on

As The Muppet Christmas Carol returns to cinemas this month, Amanda Killelea explores the story behind how one of the best adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel overcame doubters to become a much-loved festive classic

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A Tennessee twist on Dickens: behind the scenes of Dolly Parton’s Christmas Carol

The country superstar has written a clutch of new songs for this Appalachian take on the festive classic. But will she drop by to see it?

The Guardian - UK

‘The handwriting is wrong’: Dickens letters dismissed as forgeries

Documents believed to have been written by author withdrawn from auction after expert doubts veracity

The Guardian - UK

The Muppet Christmas Carol at 30: why the movie, coming to Disney+, is the best Christmas film bar none

The Muppet Christmas Carol is 30 years old on Saturday - it’s the best Christmas film ever and this is a hill I will die on

Evening Standard

‘Manual Cinema Christmas Carol’ adds layers to the Dickens story with light, puppets and people

Seeing the multimedia artists work their magic enhances first live staging of the troupe’s streaming hit.

Chicago Sun-Times

The best Christmas films to watch on Netflix

Netflix has a flurry of festive films available to stream this Christmas

Manchester Evening News

David Wenham stars in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in Melbourne in first stage role in a decade

The star started his career in the theatre at 25 years old. Now, at 57, he returns to the stage for the first time in almost a decade.

ABC News

A Christmas Carol: with new movie Spirited, the Dickens classic continues to haunt us

There’s something about A Christmas Carol that screams: remake me! Some count as many as 100 versions of the Charles Dickens story spanning film, TV and even video games.

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Room with a view: a love letter to London’s iconic skyline

On a visit to a London hotel with sweeping views across the city, travel journalist Lizzie Pook reflects on the heart-soaring impact of the vista

Nottingham Post

TV shows to watch this Christmas - from Call the Midwife to Great Festive Bake Off

Plenty to watch for this year's Christmas telly schedule on BBC, ITV and Channel 5 to Netflix, Amazon Prime and Sky Max

Daily Mirror

All the TV shows to watch this Christmas from Doc Martin to The Santa Clauses

Christmas is the perfect time to grab a hot chocolate and catch up on some television. Here are the shows to look our for this winter

The Guardian - UK

Dickens & Prince by Nick Hornby review – a tale of two greats

Hornby draws parallels between the Victorian novelist and the musician in this heartfelt homage to these brilliant, driven individuals

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The Guardian - US

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol review – Netflix’s junky musical is a lump of coal

The voices of Olivia Colman, Luke Evans and Jessie Buckley can’t enliven an ugly, joyless retread of the Dickens classic

Evening Standard

Christmas theatre 2022: the best shows to book in London this festive period

With Christmas around the corner, what better than to celebrate with a festive show. We round up the best that London has to offer

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Lynch: Tiger Woods’ $15 million bonus was a bargain — the PGA Tour owes him so much more

Fifteen million doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Inverse

184 years ago, an American poet created a Thanksgiving myth we still believe today

Have you ever wondered why Thanksgiving revolves around turkey and not ham, chicken, venison, beef, or corn? A little-known poet may hold the key.

Evening Standard

A shining result: Meet the campaigners who saved London’s historic gas lamps

London’s last remaining gas lamps are a part of our city’s fabric — and were under threat until a few days ago. Tom Ellen meets the group who fought to save these beacons of history

Chicago Sun-Times

Things to Do in Chicago Nov. 24-30: The Mix

“Manual Cinema’s A Christmas Carol,” Chicago’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the return of “The Sound of Music Sing-a-Long” are among the entertainment highlights in the week ahead.

Daily Mirror

Five Victorian-era diseases making a comeback in UK - all the symptoms to look for

Diseases that would have been familiar to author Charles Dickens and that killed thousands of people in Victorian Britain have been found to be on the rise again in modern Britain

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